Interesting Education Uses of Technology and Multimedia

The Million Cell Phone Program (Fast Forward to 1 minute in):

Freerice
 

Kerpoof
 

Diamond Road Interactive Documentary Voki Classroom

Successful and Funny New Media Examples

This funny new media campaign helped save the Bronx Zoo's Funding.
Green Porno creates animal reproduction documentaries with a different slant.

Funny educational podcasts from NASA

Several students from the Science and Natural History Filmmaking Graduate Program at MSU Bozeman are working for NASA. They are making some great podcasts. Ryan (aka Galilelo) was in my year. I am glad to see NASA is making good use of his sense of humor.
NASA | You're Welcome Science: Galileo's Greatest Hits from NASA Explorer on Vimeo.

New Media Book List, Thesis Titles, and Montana

I bought my plane ticket today. I do my defense in Bozeman on December 15th. I better get writing! But I have to decide on a thesis first. I need a thesis that encompasses new media, outreach, science, interactivity, documentary, the making of my zebra film, video games, and children's education. Here's a few thesis titles I have come up with:

1. "From Broadcast to Podcast: The Evolution of New Media and Documentary"

2. "New Media: Is it a new technology? Is it a new mode? Or is it the future of documentary?"

3. "Moving Beyond Broadcast, Making Outreach and Interactivity Core to Nonfiction Filmmaking"

4. "What's black and white, and interactive all over? A new media film on zebras."

5. "Moving Beyond Broadcast: Making a Children's Film for the New Media Landscape"

I am leaning towards 3 or 5.

A few books arrived today from the Amazon fairy. Hopefully they will help me hone in my thesis.

Children's Learning From Education: Sesame Street and Beyond

Good Video Games plus Good Learning

Education: The Emperor's New Clothes

The Unfinished Quest: The Plight of Progressive Science Education in the Age of Standards

Free-Choice Science Education: How We Learn Outside of School

Children, Adolescents, and the Media

Unfortunately, the more I read, the more I end up having to revise my thesis topic because I want to include yet another seemingly non-related item.