Thank You
We wish to thank the following people for their incredible support throughout the development of this OER. Without you, we would have nothing but a pile of tucked-away handouts.
To Omar Gonzalez, for your generosity and for developing a framework that has been an inspiration to us for decades.
To Kristine Brancolini, for believing in this project from the very start and never wavering, and for providing this incredible opportunity. To Nataly Blas, for steering us through everything and keeping us on track. To Karna Younger, for helping us see how OER can work for us and for always making us feel better, no matter what the challenges or hurdles. To Theresa Huff, for your willingness to dive into even the tiniest of HTML or H5P questions and for encouraging us to push the boundaries of what OER can do. To Jamie Hazlitt, for guiding us along the way. To Vanessa Newell, for your incomparable illustrations, which have elevated every word we have written. To Gino Brancolini, for pointing us in the right direction. To Kennedy Wheatley, for helping us at the start. To the film production faculty at Loyola Marymount University, for supporting our work and allowing us to unleash it on our unsuspecting students, hopefully making them even stronger than they already are.
To Haim Barbalat, for your keen eye and willingness to go wherever the shot worked best. To Daniella Crookshank, for your wonderful abandon and whimsy. To Gabriel Mantesnot, for trusting us before you knew us.
To Rhea Alsharabaty, Vahan Bedelian, Matthew Cheung, Dan Collela, Keisha Davis, Dakota Fitzsimmons, Elexis Goodwin, Tucker Somberg, and Tapio Tokunaga for sharing your thoughts, wisdom, and insight, as well as your work.
To all of our students, past, present, and future, for making us better teachers and human beings.
And a particular thank you to anybody who is reading this book. If we have been able to help you find your voice and become a bolder filmmaker in the process, then we have accomplished everything and more.
Jessy and Mischa
Acknowledgment of FIPSE Funding
The contents of this book were developed under a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. For more information about OER for Social Justice, visit our project website.
