Comments on: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) http://jwasserman.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology/ "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:10:39 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: I’m Nobody. Goodbye to All of That. | Beyond School http://jwasserman.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology/comment-page-1/#comment-1100 I’m Nobody. Goodbye to All of That. | Beyond School Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:06:28 +0000 http://jwasserman.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology/#comment-1100 [...] I blogged about that pledge, asking why K-12 schools aren’t following suit, and Jeff Wasserman blogged about that post in a Very Strange Coincidence that set the Global Cooling / Community Service 2.0 [...] [...] I blogged about that pledge, asking why K-12 schools aren’t following suit, and Jeff Wasserman blogged about that post in a Very Strange Coincidence that set the Global Cooling / Community Service 2.0 [...]

]]> By: Year’s-End Retrospective no. 2 - I’m Nobody. Goodbye to All of That. | Beyond School http://jwasserman.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology/comment-page-1/#comment-1059 Year’s-End Retrospective no. 2 - I’m Nobody. Goodbye to All of That. | Beyond School Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:10:16 +0000 http://jwasserman.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology/#comment-1059 [...] I blogged about that pledge, asking why K-12 schools aren’t following suit, and Jeff Wasserman blogged about that post in a Very Strange Coincidence that set the Global Cooling / Community Service 2.0 [...] [...] I blogged about that pledge, asking why K-12 schools aren’t following suit, and Jeff Wasserman blogged about that post in a Very Strange Coincidence that set the Global Cooling / Community Service 2.0 [...]

]]> By: jdp http://jwasserman.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology/comment-page-1/#comment-860 jdp Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:28:51 +0000 http://jwasserman.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology/#comment-860 ignore your planet and it will go away ignore your planet and it will go away

]]> By: Clay Burell http://jwasserman.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology/comment-page-1/#comment-857 Clay Burell Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:13:11 +0000 http://jwasserman.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology/#comment-857 All right, Jeff, you've really got me going. I just posted a long and slightly revised reprint of this comment on my blog, http://burell.blogspot.com/2007/06/best-idea-ive-ever-had-cool-way-to.html Let's see if we can start a principled revolution. Mercy! All right, Jeff, you’ve really got me going. I just posted a long and slightly revised reprint of this comment on my blog, http://burell.blogspot.com/2007/06/best-idea-ive-ever-had-cool-way-to.html

Let’s see if we can start a principled revolution. Mercy!

]]> By: Clay Burell http://jwasserman.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology/comment-page-1/#comment-855 Clay Burell Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:38:19 +0000 http://jwasserman.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology/#comment-855 I swear to question mark you must have clicked "publish" about my "Sky is melting" (doesn't that take you back to certain college nights) post at the same time I clicked "say it" to comment on your Odyssey Project post. When the screen refreshed after my comment posted, it was a total trip to see my own quote take its place at the top of your blog. And now I've got Marvin Gaye running through my head, which is a bonus I thank you for. Which brings me to this: I pitched--okay, preached--my world high school rock concert idea to my ninth graders today as something to chew on over the summer, and a good number stayed after each class to volunteer. So we're off and running on this project already. But "Think globally, act locally" is so 1.0. Come on, Jeff, be the first to get another school on board. Let's get a community service 2.0 project going where students organize, promote, concsciousness-raise about their own complicity (and their schools') with global warming and take action by having city-wide rock concert fund-raisers in as many locales around the world as we can muster. Myspace and YouTube will be our free advertisement. Wikis and blogs will be our headquarters. And students will get corporate sponshorship, raise hell about their HVAC classrooms and Poland Spring degeneracy, and proclaim their hip status by walking or biking to school. We can make doing this all without a paper footprint a badge of honor and principled point of pride along the way. And your filmmakers can put their fledgling editing skills to work by making commercial spots (to embed on their Myspaces) illuminating their peers about the problem, selling wisdom instead instead of consumption with their films, and spreading the concert idea to their real-world peer audience in the dreaded, non-schooly Facebook Xanga Myspace universe they live in. What shall we call it: Something about "cool," "cooling," and music. I want a Greek pagan theme. How many concerts at how many "points of light" around the globe can happen for this cause on the same sunny springtime Saturday afternoon next May? And how many more can happen the year after that? And what shall we do with the money? Buy some Amazon acreage to save it from Burger King? My final pitch: I'm resolved that the students, not me, will exhaust themselves over this next year. I don't know about you, but one of my needs pedagogically is to make 2.0 projects ones in which I don't (as I did this year) work harder than all my students combined, but instead empower them to. I can already hear "Mercy, Mercy Me" playing around the world as this thing spreads. (And remember, I'm an international school teacher, and we swarm the globe with former co-workers everywhere, so I really do mean "around the world." We really can make a network like this, and so can our students. And we can assign commercials and multimedia projects as English projects to align instruction with the real world, and get beyond school in our classrooms that way.) Come on, now. Say yes. I swear to question mark you must have clicked “publish” about my “Sky is melting” (doesn’t that take you back to certain college nights) post at the same time I clicked “say it” to comment on your Odyssey Project post. When the screen refreshed after my comment posted, it was a total trip to see my own quote take its place at the top of your blog.

And now I’ve got Marvin Gaye running through my head, which is a bonus I thank you for.

Which brings me to this: I pitched–okay, preached–my world high school rock concert idea to my ninth graders today as something to chew on over the summer, and a good number stayed after each class to volunteer. So we’re off and running on this project already.

But “Think globally, act locally” is so 1.0. Come on, Jeff, be the first to get another school on board. Let’s get a community service 2.0 project going where students organize, promote, concsciousness-raise about their own complicity (and their schools’) with global warming and take action by having city-wide rock concert fund-raisers in as many locales around the world as we can muster.

Myspace and YouTube will be our free advertisement. Wikis and blogs will be our headquarters. And students will get corporate sponshorship, raise hell about their HVAC classrooms and Poland Spring degeneracy, and proclaim their hip status by walking or biking to school.

We can make doing this all without a paper footprint a badge of honor and principled point of pride along the way.

And your filmmakers can put their fledgling editing skills to work by making commercial spots (to embed on their Myspaces) illuminating their peers about the problem, selling wisdom instead instead of consumption with their films, and spreading the concert idea to their real-world peer audience in the dreaded, non-schooly Facebook Xanga Myspace universe they live in.

What shall we call it: Something about “cool,” “cooling,” and music. I want a Greek pagan theme.

How many concerts at how many “points of light” around the globe can happen for this cause on the same sunny springtime Saturday afternoon next May? And how many more can happen the year after that? And what shall we do with the money? Buy some Amazon acreage to save it from Burger King?

My final pitch: I’m resolved that the students, not me, will exhaust themselves over this next year. I don’t know about you, but one of my needs pedagogically is to make 2.0 projects ones in which I don’t (as I did this year) work harder than all my students combined, but instead empower them to.

I can already hear “Mercy, Mercy Me” playing around the world as this thing spreads. (And remember, I’m an international school teacher, and we swarm the globe with former co-workers everywhere, so I really do mean “around the world.” We really can make a network like this, and so can our students. And we can assign commercials and multimedia projects as English projects to align instruction with the real world, and get beyond school in our classrooms that way.)

Come on, now. Say yes.

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