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With the intimate, Oscar-tipped
Eternals set for the fall, this might be the filmmaker’s big year.
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Chloé Zhao is having a very busy 2021. She’s buried in postproduction on a Marvel movie,
Eternals, due out this November. Her third feature film,
Nomadland, will be released wide tomorrow, screening both on Hulu and in open theaters around the country. It’s a big, bold rollout for an ostensibly intimate drama. But Zhao’s films have always had a grand scale to them, even though they’re made on tiny budgets. Her first two films,
By clock on January 24, 2009.
Moving on with the morning, once again, I had to make a tough choice. OK, in this case, it wasn t that tough, really, as this was the session I was looking forward to all along: Science online - middle/high school perspective (or: how the Facebook generation does it ?) , led by Stacy Baker and her students.
But this session has a long history..
We had a session on using blogs in science education at the 1st science blogging conference and it was quite an eye-opener. It was led by Adnaan Wasey and Lea Winerman (from the The Online PBS NewsHour at the time). Takehome message #1: a lot of science educational materials on the Web are not accurate (and need scientists to verify them). Takehome message #2: no matter how good a blog post is, it is useless to a teacher if it does not fit into the curriculum as designed by the state. The result of that discussion was the starting of the initiative to collect in one place all the posts that