Is this ethnography? The making of this film was extremely difficult. It takes the viewer from horror to the possibility of joy. I suffered a tremendous emotional downturn for the first four months working on those first three acts. While the two final sections pulled me back towards the living, it took another eight months… Read More
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
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
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
© by Trace Taylor (2015) Header Image provided by Shutterstock The “War on Drugs” is a racist initiative. Statistics and informant-provided information support this conclusion. The examination of both qualitative and quantitative evidence is examined, and with substantive evidentiary weight, supports the argument that the war on drugs is an active government funded war on… Read More
© 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
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
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
© 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
© Trace Taylor (2018) In order to shift power from Oppressors to the Oppressed, a pedagogy “must question the status quo in the name of social justice” (Freire 1970). Such a pedagogy would need to be a situated pedagogy open to (the) diversity that provides “…a rich lexicon of practice and dialogue” (Freire 1970), adaptable… Read More
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