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[Jack Stewart]

My email is full of people asking to be deleted from
the list.  This has nothing to do with me and makes me
very angry that I have to spend the time getting rid
of this junk.
--- Jerry Balzano <gjbalzano at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 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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