VirtCamp Summer 2001 Pepperdine University
A little bit after 5 P.M. on Thursday, July 26, 2001 a number of strangers wandered into a nondescript conference room at Pepperdine University’s Culver City facility. Two tables sat along two walls, one holding soft drinks, a pile of papers on the other, a world map on one wall with colored thumbtacks marking widely separated spots on the map. Instructions were on the wall to place a thumbtack on a spot on the map where you called home. Thus we began to go from strangers to fellow educational explorers.
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06: Bye-Byes
Bye-Byes We started out as strangers and in four short days ended up as friends and teams (or actually “cadres”). From places on opposite ends of the globe we came together to prepare for an unknown journey and quest that we were hoping could sustained on unfeeling...
05: Poster Presentations
Poster presentations Most of our activities were group activities designed to engender our familiarity and trust of each other. On Sunday, July 29th, having separated into our Cadre we created and shared posters with symbols and pictures of things and people who were...
04: LEGO/Logo Project & Presentations
LEGO/LOGO Project The Challenge: To build a chair lift, cable care or gondola capable of pulling itself along a string. Use a second RXC brick as a remote Control for Navigating the suspended vehicle. DAY 1: THE APPROACH We discussed the process and collaborated on...
03: Iron Chef
Iron Chef One of the concepts that was continually repeated to us during VirtCamp was that it was about the Process and not the Product. Well, our version of “Iron Chef” certainly communicated that precept, in that many of us were unfamiliar with the source TV show...
02: Building Bridges
Building Bridges Among the team-building activities, we participated in a highly competitive bridge-building activity in which teams of four were commissioned to build newspaper bridges using just the materials materials in the room. The bridges were judged based on...
01: A Roomful of Strangers
A Roomful of Strangers - Pepperdine OMAET program introduction A little bit after 5 P.M. on Thursday, July 26, 2001 a number of strangers wandered into a nondescript conference room at Pepperdine University’s Culver City facility. Two tables sat along two walls, one...
V2TV PROJECT: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: CODE BLEU
Written by: Pepperdine OMAET Cadre Bleu
Cameras by Joe Bustillos
Edited by Joe Bustillos and Alyson Robinson
This video was part of an introductory exercise on technology use as part of Pepperdine University’s Online Masters Degree program in Educational Technology (OMAET). Our group, Cadre Bleu, used a “Mission Impossible” theme to describe our indoctrination experiences. This experience and the experiences over this week that we’d spent together, set the tone for the following year during which, even though we were spread out across the United States and the world, we formed small groups online to work together and create media projects to complete our program assignments.
JBB's Media Projects by Joseph Bustillos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
