{"id":12096,"date":"2010-12-04T11:27:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T16:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=12096"},"modified":"2010-12-04T11:38:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T16:38:38","slug":"publishing-students-work-incredibly-motivating-rewarding-for-them-nice-work-aj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/12\/04\/publishing-students-work-incredibly-motivating-rewarding-for-them-nice-work-aj\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing students’ work: Incredibly motivating\/rewarding for them! Nice work AJ!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have long wanted…er… better make that dreamed of<\/em> having our own kids enjoy the same energy that I experience when I create something on a computer. Computers can be used as tools for exercising and developing our creativity. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

So when our son, A.J., put a song together on Garageband (see link below), I was thrilled! He played the song for me and, to me, it sounded great.<\/p>\n

But something inside him wanted to have this music published somewhere — for others to hear it as well. So I told him I would post it on my blog and that — via the Internet — people all of the world could hear this song. Boy was he ever excited!<\/em> His eyes lit up and I could see the gears turning in his head, wanting to go back and create another <\/em>song. \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42
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“I could be famous <\/em>he said!” And I told him, “Yes, AJ, you could be famous.” (That’s not the point, but it’s still motivating to him.)<\/em>
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Even though both he and I have stage fright when it comes to sharing our musical interests and (not even half-baked) abilities, he was still excited to think that this song might be heard by others.<\/p>\n

I’m posting it for him, but I’m also posting it to put an “Amen!” to the many folks who have already written that publishing students’ work for others to see\/hear is an incredibly motivating event.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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So without further adieu, here is the song AJ created on a Mac laptop while on the road, simply entitled, “Car Trip<\/a>.” <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nice work AJ!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have long wanted…er… better make that dreamed of having our own kids enjoy the same energy that I experience when I create something on a computer. Computers can be used as tools for exercising and developing our creativity. So when our son, A.J., put a song together on Garageband (see link below), I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,8,141,46,423,256,66],"tags":[702,294,4,12,700,603],"class_list":["post-12096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-digital-audio","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-k-12-related","category-love-of-learning","category-music","category-student-related","tag-creativity","tag-engagement","tag-k-12","tag-keeping-students-engaged","tag-music","tag-student-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12096"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12136,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions\/12136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}