Warren Smith
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 May
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I had 11 iMacs. running Premiere Pro and Photoshop.
I think that it was really interesting to notice the difference. The students downstairs, behavioral versus physical challenges, the students upstairs were the ones that resonated the most. With Photoshop, video editing, there was an enthusiasm. So a student with autism, something about some of these skills, they just love, you get them going on video editing. That's very detail-oriented.
Yeah, and so I just loved working with those students, and I didn't get to do that until my last two years here. So, but it was the first two years with those other students, I still think I was making progress with them, like bringing in digital.
I had, as a teacher, you're not supposed to have favorites, but this, the student that I was probably the most fond of who ended up getting kicked out over something that, um, he was just a brilliant illustrator. He could draw just incredible and came from nothing and. Most of these kids, I think the core issue was just there was no parents. We would have open house and no one would show up.
Right. So they were on their own. Yeah. And that student in particular, I found something that resonated with him. We invested in like a Krita drawing tablet and he accelerated with that. But the problem came in the form I noticed when they would say, he's drawing illustrations of samurais in combat. What good is that going to do him?
We want him to do projects that are relevant to the school, but then they would give me no criteria of, or set plans. There was no curriculum in place. I developed it all myself, which I wasn't, there's pros and cons to that. There's a lot of freedom to that, but the challenge is that it allows them to come in at their convenience if they- And who was they?
Leadership, which I never had an issue with. I never had an issue until I published that video.
Let's try and learn how to critically think. So let's analyze the tweet ourselves. So that statement, do you see anything problematic?
If a woman says that, you know, saying that there's a difference between men and female and then being attacked as transphobic, I think that's what she's saying by attacking someone for stating that sex is real. That is exactly what she's saying. Is that transphobic to you?
Like you said at the beginning of this conversation, you said, given the fact that J.K. Rowling is transphobic, how do you feel about Harry Potter?
no i feel like an idiot now it's okay though but this is why we do this to learn to learn how to think i discovered 2017 a video of a professor low quality video in this classroom that looked like mine you're standing from the classroom talking about archetypes of harry potter it was you and i was like that's cool and this is 2017. that was the first video i saw of you and i went down the rabbit hole cafe and all that classics but that
And I said to my, I'm going to try this because I was teaching students about filmmaking and movies. And I was teaching a journalism class and I was like, this ties in directly. And I just, I loved this style. I was like, teaching is a performance. There's a performance art element to this because you have to be engaging to be able to stand in front of the classroom and get them engaged and
there's an artistic element to that that I'm not quite sure how to articulate that. It might not be right. No, you did. It's a performance. But that's what I saw in your video. So I went in, it was probably a few weeks later, and we have all the cameras. And I was teaching a student how to use it. I said, okay, now you know how to use the camera. Let's try and record this lecture.
I saw this thing on YouTube. And I essentially ran through archetypes in Harry Potter, and they loved it. And that video is on YouTube. People can watch it. No one watched it at the time. But it's up there and that's years ago, maybe five years ago. That's how it started.
So I started and I was like, this is a great, I agree with you that YouTube is a Gutenberg revolution that we cannot comprehend what it means. It is massive potential and it's exciting. So I fell in love with that aspect of it, started to, because there's teaching portfolios. Well, what better way, what better thing to have in a teaching portfolio than a recording of you actually teaching?
So they ask you to have artifacts, provide artifacts of your teaching. Here's a video of me teaching, beat that. It's like- So that was the thinking. And also in multimedia, we would do reviews of movies like The Queen's Gambit. It was just a way to get students to practice articulating themselves.
Public speaking, when you don't have a room full of people for them to practice in front of, a camera...
is not a bad substitute because it allows them to watch it back hear their voice which at first no one likes it makes causes you to cringe it's very interesting response right right but you can learn so much from watching and those repetitions and doing it again and again and and they loved it some of the students just really loved it so to bring us to that video They asked me to do a newscast.
They're like, we want to try a new idea. Can you do a newscast for the school once a week, which is what I was doing in that public school. But that was a legit newscast that would go out live to every classroom once a week on Friday. They had all this technology to do it. And they would upload everything to social media. That's why I have a Twitter.
That was the only reason I even had a Twitter account at the time. That was the original school. The original school of public, I can even say that it was the Neshoba Regional High School in Massachusetts. So if you go to my Twitter feed, the very first, only first tweets, they're all just Neshoba student broadcast because, and the head of my department would ask me to just share them.
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