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[Jerry Balzano]

I'm Jerry Balzano, a professor in the Music Dept and the Teacher 
Education Program at UC San Diego.  Once upon a time, I started writing 
something called *The HyperCard Projects Book*, a "project-based" 
approach to teaching/learning HyperCard.  (Wrote up 12 
chapters/projects before I saw the writing on the wall for HyperCard.)  
I have been toying with the idea of resurrecting this book, using 
Revolution/Dreamcard.  The "big idea" is that most people will learn 
better and more easily by creating meaningful projects, rather than 
encountering a "systematic" approach that mostly makes sense from the 
standpoint of someone who already understands the thing to be learned.  
I would identify closely with the "Game Creation" approach mentioned by 
Marty Billingsley -- indeed, a number of the projects I use are games 
-- but by expanding the view to "Projects" I can include things that 
have more educational bite, and within the games subtopic, not be 
overly preoccupied with "game-play" issues.

I was hoping to see a larger response of the Rev/Dreamcard community to 
the announcement of this list; so far the "remove me" requests handily 
outnumber the personal introductions.  In particular, I'm wondering 
where all the educators close to Rev's home (England, Scotland, Wales, 
Ireland) are.  And why there are so few K-12 folk to respond so far....

What about a "Dreamcard Projects Book"?  Any interest in such a thing?

- Jerry Balzano

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Dr. Gerald J. Balzano
Teacher Education Program
Dept of Music
Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition
Program in Cognitive Science
UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
(858) 822-0092


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