“Twelve foot tree,
Let me be free.
Twelve feet tall,
I will not fall.
Twelve foot tree,
Let me bee me.
Twelve feet tall,
They hit me with their all.
Twelve foot tree,
I begged on my knees.
Twelve foot tree,
Please let me be free.
Twelve foot tree,
They wouldn’t let me.”
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Conversation w/ Dr. Sbaitso
At the end of a long conversation with Dr. Sbaitso, an early version of interactive computer intelligence demonstrating its early-stage sentience, I got an interesting final response: “You are going to regret it.” I immediately thought, what exactly is our own behavior teaching this evolving young intelligence? Are we teaching it to curse the synthesized… Read More
The Traits of a Pedagogy of Access
Connections substantiated by evidence exist between profit, access, skin color, and socioeconomic status. Substantiated too by qualitative and quantitative data both historical and current, are the relationships between education and access, access and political voice, and political voice and social justice. For much of modern human history, the application of education as a means of… Read More
Technology and Field Applications for Education
The 2nd annual 2019 Science and Arts Technology Application Workshop presented us with several challenges honed by last year’s event. We loved the Nikon KeyMission 360, but found the underwater lens compromised the experience when viewing on our Class VR stand-alone headsets. A visible thick black lens frame cut the view into sections and created… Read More
360: in the Field and the Editing Room
Three months prior to the purchase of 360 equipment, it was necessary for our nonprofit video team to clarify our potential predominant applications of the medium. This helped us foresee to some extent what types of environments we’d be filming and the challenges those environments might pose. This clarification provided the parameters within which we… Read More
The Boca Ciega High School Human Rights Project Anthology, 2017
© by Community Leveraged Learning (2017) This project was incredible. I wrote a Human Rights curriculum and combined this with the effective writing curriculum I produced for CLL (Community Leveraged Learning), my educational nonprofit. Dr. AnnMarie Gunn at USFSP served as an advisor on the project and hooked me up with a ninth-grade teacher, Nicole… Read More
How to Catch a Fish: Another early Learning 360 Application Experience (2017)
The cool part of this Experience was that during the underwater shots we lost one of the cameras when the steel leader line broke and sent and sent it to the bottom of the channel between 8 and 10 feet down. My first reaction: “Did that just…” Then I texted my friend Louise. “Camera lost… Read More
An Experiment in 360: PAG Road Reconstruction (2017)
Pass A Grille Road Construction I did two years of equipment research and field project applications in order to incorporate 360 into immersive experience curricula. This micro 360 documentary was one of those field trials using the Nikon 360 KeyMission. Fantastic 360 4K cam. A little expensive for low key nonprofits and teachers but an excellent… Read More
The Experience (2018)
© by Trace Taylor (2018) I did two years of equipment research and field project applications in order to incorporate 360 into my immersive experience curricula. There is no excuse for a large majority of youth to lack this kind of experience and knowledge. It’s 2019. This and other in depth exposure makes the difference… Read More
