A resource sharing community for educators interested in best practices and teaching with/about pop culture.

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Hey, Hey, Hey this is Ryan Goble coming at you with teaching resources and fun; and if you're not careful we’ll share some cool web links before we’re done!

Echoing one of my educational heroes, Bill Cosby, Making Curriculum Pop was created in the spirit of groundbreaking shows like Fat Albert, Sesame Street and School House Rock. Each of these programs embraced common cultures to engage kids in learning. That type of education – the fun, cool, meaningful and engaging kind - is what Making Curriculum Pop is here to facilitate through Ning’s Web 2.0 technology.

In my day job, as a curriculum coordinator and new teacher coach at a high school in the South Bronx, I spend a lot of time hunting for teaching resources that utilize common cultures. Building on that work I thought it would be powerful and political to bring together a collective of teachers dedicated to making curriculum pop. It is hard for individual teachers to catch every cool website, video clip, song, study guide or comic but collectively MC POP is a forum where we can all share resources to reinvent our core curriculum and the larger dialogue on public education. So if you use popular and common cultures to reflect, refract, refocus and reinvent your core curriculum MC POP is the place for you.

The site is a spin off of the work Paul, Nicole and I do at Mindblue but it is not designed to be an advertising hub. I’m sure we’ll broadcast a message when we release a new study guide but that is not the focus of the web site. NONE of the links I e-mail will be paid solicitations. The ads on the right sidebar are placed by Ning and will be there until I decide we can pay for the network (that lets you know how - cough - impressive the present Mindblue revenue stream is). I dig teachers and companies that do cool work and want to share those resources with teachers however, this network is designed for educators who work with students.

As the network evolves over the next couple of months, I’ll articulate guidelines for folks with commercial interests and individuals around spam. In the meantime I hope you’ll get started by doing something cool on the network.

Good Vibes,

Ryan R. Goble

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Ryan Goble

PLAYBOOK: Decoding Symbolic Language Part 2 - 10 PDF PAGES OF FUN! 7 Replies

Started by Ryan Goble in MC POP Across The Curriculum. Last reply by Ryan Goble 6 minutes ago.

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FUN SONG: "Toystore" 4 Replies

Started by Ryan Goble in About the MC POP NING!. Last reply by Kyle Melton 2 hours ago.

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PLAYBOOK: Decoding Symbolic Language Part 1 6 Replies

Started by Ryan Goble in MC POP Across The Curriculum. Last reply by Ryan Goble Nov 6.

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Frank W. Baker

Poliwood: a new doc on the role of media in politics


I heard a fascinating interview today (on XM Radio's political channel POTUS) with director Barry Levinson about his new film, a documentary, called Poliwood. It premieres Monday November 2 on Showtime at 730pm ET. Although the film appears to address celebrity in politics, it also addresses how politics has b… Continue

Posted by Frank W. Baker on October 29, 2009 at 4:00pm

Frank W. Baker

Studying Monsters?

The Los Angeles Times reports on a UC-Berkeley course which "is one of a number around the country that mix scares and scholarship, using zombies, vampires and other ogres to study popular culture."

Posted by Frank W. Baker on October 29, 2009 at 8:47am

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