iGeneration ideas & Video

I would like to spend more time with the ideas presented in Chapter Three "Telling Powerful Visual Stories."  We've had seen some wonderful animated projects that kids make in Keynote, but I've seen some cartooning sites that I would like to pursue.  I want to look into Make Believe Comix, Bitstrip, and possibly Pixton.  The idea presented in the PBS video - to create an allegory, really intrigues me.  What a fabulous way to demonstrate understanding.

PBS Video

The key ideas described in the video incorporate technology in education in a variety of ways: gaming, media arts, scavenger hunts, augmented reality, and creating allegories.  I'd like to think we do some of these, although not nearly in the same depth, throughout the year in either science or social studies.  In addition to the variety of techniques introduced, there were some very powerful quotations.  I particularly enjoyed, "technology is changing the ecology of a school."  I'd sure like to believe this, however, I know that in our building, the new ecology is in specific niches (rooms) and not throughout the whole facility.