Already hyped as “the new Star Wars kid” and “the next Tron Guy” by peeps in the know, Halo Kid mania is on the rise.
Using only cardboard and packing tape, the Halo Kid achieves an astonishing level of detail in his work. To date, he has crafted all of the weapons in Halo 3 and […]
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Halo Kid slides backwards down the uncanny valley
July 17th, 2008 cms, dance, fanart, fandom, gambit, gaming, halo, literacy, masterchief, meme, mit, movement, teenagers, video | 2 Comments »Machinima war fiction
June 25th, 2008 fiction, gaming, machinima, storytelling, teenagers, warcraft | No Comments »Three-part story by luisdarkangel, a teenaged machinima creator on YouTube:
I. A tale of Warcraft:
II. The war -Spill chapter:
III. The war - Forgotten soul:
Lite Feet, dancing in the classroom
April 30th, 2008 chickennoodlesoup, dance, dancing, education, harlem, hiphop, lightfeet, litefeet, teenagers, webstar | No Comments »A new friend from ROFLCon emailed me this morning about high school kids being suspended for making videos of spontaneous ‘lite feet’ dancing in school. Rather than re-write this as a blog post (end of semester squeeze and all), I’m going to quote my email (nessonblog style) and paste the videos inline. Enjoy!
Hi [so-and-so],
You’ve lead […]
Two more reasons I love 9th graders
January 11th, 2008 design, education, email, highschool, kids, literacy, media, mobile, teaching, technology, teenagers, todomundo | No Comments »Observing a 9th grade history class yesterday, I witnessed two interactions that blew my mind.
1. During lunch, several students used discarded lunch trays, staples, pens, and tape to craft foam Sidekicks and ENVs with sliding, flipping, and popping ’screens’. They then wrote notes on paper, folded them up, placed them inside of the closed phones, […]
