Back to the Future for PC in school

 http://www.telltalegames.com/bttf

Tellta Tale Games has announced Back to the Future for PC and Mac. The game will be launched in December 2010. Ipad version will come later.

This game is based on "Back to the Future 3" and will have the participation of the actor Christopher Lloyd. Back to the Future will span five episodes, with one episode released each month. The first one will be for free if you register here

Michael J. Fox & Christopher Lloyd

Back to the Future 

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So, Universal Studio Home Entertainment released yesterday, the 26th Ocotober 2010, Back to the Future I II and III as a 25th Anniversary Trilogy. Can it really be 25 years since "Back to the Futur" flew into theaters and became a pop culture phenomen? Yes, indeed!

Michael J. Fox has been the special guest in the presentation of this High-Def. version. The actors Mary Steenburger, Lea Thompson and Christopher Lloyd has been invited too. 

The newly restored High-Def. Blu-Ray Disc released contains over two hours of bonus material, including 16 deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes footage and "Tales from the Futur", a new six-part retrospective documentary. 

Back to the Future high-def.

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This is the first time that "Back to the Future" films are released in high-definition disc format. Full details here 

http://www.telltale.com/btff

A $1 donation will be donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research. The site is also inviting users to register to receive the first episode for free 

The studio design director Dave Grossman said:" You can expect Back to the Future to be the next step in the evolution that we have been doing for the adventure game, probably a little more accessible and directed. We've been moving things in that direction for a long time". Let's wait for the game fo PC

Let's wait for "Back to the Future", the game fo PC and there we will study the pedagogical use in the classroom. Meanwhile, why not display the high-def. Back to the Future 3 in a face-to-face course?! 

Do you remember Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton in the classroom or Prince of Persia: an interesting narrative text.

Movies and games offer teachers and students a nice motivation push! A narration let us know something. It telle us what happened. It tell us a story. Our students love hear narrations. 

It provides the necessary information to understand the educational benefits of digital resources and virtual worlds and to lear how to use them as educational and motivational resources.

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Don't miss all the information about the cerimony of 25th Anniversary on Bryan Reesman blog. Very interesting!

And let your students follow the news on Facebook or Twitter or even better join the conversation on the Telltale blog. 

GSouto

26.10.10
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A Contemporary History live lesson!

Miner Claudo Yanez (9th miner rescued)

(AP Photo)

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"It's a miracle, a wonderful event," 

Bernard Carr, mathematics and astronomy professor

With anxious anticipation increasingly yielding to exuberant celebration, the haggard men trapped under a half-mile of rock for more than two months have been emerging to the arms of their families and an electrified nation.

NYT

The 15 miners already rescued emerge like clockwork, jubilantly embracing wives, children and rescuers and looking remarkably composed today, the 13 October, after languishing for 69 days in the depths of a mine where easily they could have died.

AP Photo/Hugo Infante (Chilean government)

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Not only Chile or Bolivia or even so Latin America! All over the world people  follows and rejoices with the bravety of those men and the courage of a people who believed always in the rescue of those 33 miners and didn't give up on anyone and worked to protect and save every life.

Journalists waiting/ REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (Chile)

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Communications technology — including live video from within the mine — turned the entire world into a global village hoping for the safe release of men they did not know and would probably never meet. It was as if each of us could see ourselves in their place, wondering how we would cope with the sustained terror and then the sudden emergence into the light.

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What a wonderful Contemporary History live-stream lesson teachers and students can learn,  following on their media devices this increadible lesson of courage, faith, science and high technology! 

Don't miss this opportunity to enhance the learning in classroom! Today the world made History! 

Invite your students to contact on Twitter a Chilean classroom (secondary school) and share with them this wonderful lesson! They can write amazing essays.

And why not read and explore in a literature classroom this poem by Ernest Henley, same as well the images of the rescue. Ask students to discuss this poem sharing ideas, and as creative activity, to write some poems (individual or group)  about human courage! 

OUT of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

(...)

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley, Invictus (1875)

G-Souto

13.10.10

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References:

New Yort Times/ World

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Yahoo.News

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William Ernest Henley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invictus

MEDEA Awards 2010

MEDEA Awards 2010

Recognising, encouraging and rewarding 
excellence and creativity in media in education

www.medea-awards.com

The MEDEA Secretariat announced the 9 finalists for the annual MEDEA awards on 4th October.

The finalists are (in alphabetical order): BBC News School Report by BBC (UK), Bla Bla Bla edemocracy e minori by Civil Life Lab (Italy), Et si c'était toi by Lycée Technique du Centre (Luxembourg), Evolution of life by CNDP (France), Level 7 by Careersbox (UK), Monkey Labs by Die Keure/Larian Studios (Belgium), Pocket Anatomy by eMedia Interactive (Ireland), Theorem of Fire by Nafta Films (Estonia) and The Classroom by Cornerhouse (UK).

MEDEA 2010 finalists

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Once again, I have been invited by Ms. Nikki Cortoos to being a judge at MEDEA Awards 2010, as I have been in 2009. I am honoured.

As Teacher Assessor specialized by the University of Evora  and Catholic University of Portugal - UCP/Biotechnology, I commited myself thorough a careful work of analysis in all the areas of the projects evaluation. 

Long hours, testing, verifying the several entries and checking all the items of the evaluation  process.

It is an expertise work that we give unambiguous, with consistency, independence and extreme relief. 

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This year the competition attracted 140 entries from 31 countries, a very high number of entries. For the first time, those entering could chose between submitting their entry as a production made by a professional company or semi-professional production unit or as one made by teachers, students, learners, parents, professors, individual or organisational representatives in primary education, secondary education, higher education, adult education, vocational education and/or training.

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The 9 finalists of "MEDEA Awards 2010" had been announced by MEDEA Secretariat, on 4th October 2010. You can see the list in show case here 

Entries this year included terrific examples of how students and their teachers are using media to enhance their own media literacy skills while creating learning resources that can have significant social impact. Animations and cartoons made by younger children demonstrated that children are never too young to begin creating their own media-based learning materials.

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The finalists were chosen by a jury made up of 74 education and media experts from 26 countries who evaluated the MEDEA entries during August and September. 

The overall winner will be announced during the "MEDEA Awards Ceremony" which takes place on Thursday 25 November during the Media & Learning Conference in Brussels.

This year, I could accept the invitation to participate in the cerimony! It will be a joy to share these moments and at the same time to attend the Media & Learning Conference.

Entries this year included terrific examples of how students and their teachers are using media to enhance their own media literacy skills while creating learning resources that can have significant social impact. Animations and cartoons made by younger children demonstrated that children are never too young to begin creating their own media-based learning materials.

www.medea-awards.com

Congratulations to all the winners! Students, teachers and producers proove that creativity has no barriers!

G-Souto (member of the jury)

05.10.10

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