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Conference Notes project

Over the summer, Molly Riordan, Gonzalo, and I worked on a reiteration of a past show called "Conference Notes." The animation style is relatively simple and direct, and meant to illustrate specific points the interviewee is talking about.

Posted 16 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Teaching The Media Show: Vlog Day 4

Here's a project that I just finished up with Gus...cool stuff.


Reposted from The Media Show. Written by Gus Andrews.

On the final day of the class, we screened the videos we had produced from students' storyboards and gave them a special surprise -- a video review from producers at the Gottesman Video Collective. This video shows that process, including students' reactions to our edits (they laughed hysterically about the JibJab-like introductions we animated using …

Posted 19 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Himrod learns about PDFs and Willoby gets confused

In this episode, our favorite professors learn a little more about Pocket Knowledge while interviewing a Digital Depot Library Associate.

Posted 20 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Repost: Willoby has a great idea

This was a particular fun piece to produce...the interviewee was awesome!


Reposted from Gottesman Video Collective. Written by Skye MacLeod.

So here's this week's Willoby & Himrod...we tried a few new things to improve the banter. Instead of just jumping in and filming cold, we had a conversation with Marcelle about what she was going to say. This was helpful because it gave us some material to work with (i.e. Willoby's great idea...) A difficulty …

Posted 20 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Media Show in the Classroom vlog3

Students from Chris' media class learn to storyboard and scriptwriting.

Posted 21 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Willoby & Himrod Meet…Ankit!

Himrod discovers his fluency in Hindi!

Posted 21 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Old Tenured Professors Accost Library Staff

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been experimenting a bit with bringing back Willoby and Himrod. As a way to introduce people to library and lab employees, our favorite old fuzzy professors routinely accost people at their desk to ask them who they are, what they are working on, as well as something cool …

Posted 21 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Making yourself indispensable

Here's a seminar snapshot Gary ran on "Linchpin."

Posted 21 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Redesigning the EdLab Tour

Jo ran an excellent discussion on creating an awesome edlab tour.

Posted 22 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Media Show vlog: Going to Brooklyn

In this video, Gus and I talk about the Media Show in the classroom on our train ride down to Brooklyn.

Posted 22 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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…Meet Jeff!

Willoby and Himrod accost Jeff Frank, the managing editor of Teachers College Record.

Posted 22 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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…Meet Molly!

Our favorite professors sneak up on Molly as she's working!

Posted 22 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Simon’s farewell vlog

Here's a farewell to Simon Doolittle, the former lead editor of TCR "The Voice." He'll be missed! Equipment: Canon 7D, Edirol R-09HR, sennheiser lavalier mic

Posted 22 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Smarter Learning Analytics at IBM

Nabeel Ahmed, a former member of the EdLab, gave a talk about using analytics to improve learning at IBM.

Posted 22 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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“The Google” (Willoby & Himrod)

In this series, our heros Willoby & Himrod get zapped by lightening, sucked down a worm hole, stranded in a strange alternate universe and talks with Al Gore! All in a day's work for our favorite retired professors! Episode 1: "The Google" Episode 2: "Wikipedia World" Episode 3: "Incarcerated!" Episode 4: "You Can Call Me …

Posted 22 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Monk Education

In the fall of 2008, Joachim, Naoko, Tara and I traveled to Japan to visit some cool sites and produce a few interesting videos. Here's a documentary that we produced on young Buddhist monks in Kyoto:

Posted 22 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Yell & Sell shoot (day 1)

On Friday, Gus and I went out to Brooklyn International High School for our first shoot in the Yell & Sell video response project. We met at the EdLab, went over our game plan and rode the train down to BIHS filming Weena giving a short interview with the camera. It never ceases to amaze …

Posted 23 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Internationals Network Art Share Event

Here's a short documentary film I created for the Internationals Network for Public Schools about the first-annual Internationals Art Share event:

Posted 23 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Collaborative Media (BIHS)

In this mini documentary project, Doug Beacom and I follow kids as they learn claymation, stop motion, and puppetry in an innovative classroom in Brooklyn. Chris Wilson, veteran media teacher, was awesome in letting us capture his class project.

Posted 23 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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Sharecropper Series!

In this series, I followed Leah Gauthier, a Brooklyn-based artist who planted gardens in other people's backyards, fire escapes, studios...It was a terrific experience following the Sharecropper project, meeting some really cool people, and seeing the project grow in scope!

Posted 23 months ago by Skye MacLeod

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