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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Stewart" <jackstewart_us at yahoo.com>
To: "Revolution in Education" <education-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: Welcome to the Education-Revolution List!


> 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
> >
> > **************************************************
> >
> > 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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