(If you read it after Thrsday night, it will probably be all fixed up.)
Announcements, notes and transcripts of Sandra Dodd's unschooling chats
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Learning and connections and MOVIES
November 28, we'll talk about movies and unschooling.
What have you (your own self) learned from movies, about history or geography? Human nature? Art, music or dance?
A hundred years ago, people began to take novels seriously as a medium through which to view everyday life and thought, or rarified special life and thought. Movies aren't new anymore.
In the late 19th century, there was a movie theater in Buffalo, New York which was described this eay a few decades later: "There were seats for about 90 persons and the admission was three cents. Feeble, flickering films of travel scenes were the usual fare." It only lasted two years.
Movies are going through another slump now, because people can watch movies at home so easily. They've gone from being like expensive non-circulating books in libraries, to being as available as paperback books (VHS and DVD) to being like e-books now (downloadable, streaming, on-demand).
There are psychologists and philosophers who discuss movies in terms ways can be used in therapy and spiritual growth.
Try to bring a story.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
What have you (your own self) learned from movies, about history or geography? Human nature? Art, music or dance?
A hundred years ago, people began to take novels seriously as a medium through which to view everyday life and thought, or rarified special life and thought. Movies aren't new anymore.
In the late 19th century, there was a movie theater in Buffalo, New York which was described this eay a few decades later: "There were seats for about 90 persons and the admission was three cents. Feeble, flickering films of travel scenes were the usual fare." It only lasted two years.
Movies are going through another slump now, because people can watch movies at home so easily. They've gone from being like expensive non-circulating books in libraries, to being as available as paperback books (VHS and DVD) to being like e-books now (downloadable, streaming, on-demand).
There are psychologists and philosophers who discuss movies in terms ways can be used in therapy and spiritual growth.
Try to bring a story.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
TV chat, November 21
146-143 in The Big Book and some or all of this: http://sandradodd.com/tv
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Let's talk about TV, cartoons, maybe YouTube, but not movies!
Consider exploring some of the online information on the history of TV between now and Wednesday. Here are a few good ones, but there are many more:
MBC: Museum of Broadcast CommunicationsTeletronic: The Television History Site
November 28, we'll talk about movies and unschooling.
If you're reading this by e-mail and you need a path to the chatroom, click on the title to get to the blog, which has a tab up to the left with the link and password.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Typical days chat, November 14
There is a collection of typical days on my site, here: http://sandradodd.com/typical The part of the book about this is just the summaries that are on that page.
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"Typical" is often not photographable. http://justaddlightandstir.blogspot.com/2012/11/unphotographable.html
THANKS, Marta for reminding me to send these announcements.
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
Humor/Humour, November 7, 2012
What is the opposite of humor?
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What are the elements of humor?
What would cause someone to describe another person as "humorless"?
What's the opposite of "lighten up"?
Page 128, Big Book of Unschooling Second-best resource, http://sandradodd.com/humor
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