Archive forOctober, 2007

Oct

28

25+ sources for Creative Commons

October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Mashable has gathered 25+ sources of content licensed under Creative Commons. Ties in nicely with all the talk about design and sourcing images and text.

Oct

28

Speaking with conviction

October 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qv0aDhqxiHg" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] I inwardly cringed as I laughed at this video because I am, like, totally guilty of this “disarticulation … ness”.

Oct

28

Why Design Matters…

October 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

Dean Shareski has created a Design Matters Keynote for the 2007 Flat Classroom Project. This is a remix of his presentation for the K-12 Online Conference in which Shareski challenges the fact that “creativity and design are often seen as frivolous or at best icing on the cake of learning” and presents reasons why design [...]

Oct

28

Maps of war

October 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

Maps of War is a really useful resource with interactive maps that cover a wide range of conflicts from the Western Front of WWI, WWII, Iraq, Darfur, failed states index and global migration.

Oct

25

Lit2Go – free audio books

October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Via Teen Literacy Tips is Lit2Go, which is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, Print [...]

Oct

25

Shakespeare – with a twist

October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment

Clay Burrell has an energy for teaching that is infectious – better still he’s full of good ideas. His new WordPress powered blog has a growing number of teaching resources that use read/write web technologies and collaborative learning strategies in engaging and purposeful ways. Among them is a link to his AP Literature class project, [...]

Oct

21

Paper tigers and straw men

October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment

Sylvia Martinez is one of my favourite writers because she presents well-reasoned and thoughtful arguments about the relationship between pedagogy and technology use. Her latest post , digital natives immigrants – how much do we love this slogan, discusses the traps involved in using catchphrases when we discuss the complexities of learning. The whole digital [...]

Oct

21

Digital enthnography v2

October 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

From the creators of the Machine is Us/ing Us. There are some interesting ideas in this despite the whiney affluenza overtones. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/dGCJ46vyR9o" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

Oct

20

Thirsty for information?

October 20, 2007 | 1 Comment

Via U TechTips is PolyCola, which allows you to search two different search engines at the same time in a split screen format. You can also compare the results of a meta-search from DogPile with google, yahoo, alta vista and others.

Oct

20

Going Global

October 20, 2007 | 6 Comments

I’ve written before about the possibilities and difficulties associated with global or “flat world” projects. This is an area of learning that I am really fascinated by and hope to get a feasible project off the ground next year (as we only have about five weeks of class time remaining until the summer holidays). [slideshare [...]

Oct

20

What makes a good leader?

October 20, 2007 | 1 Comment

The best point of this slideshow: The jobs of today’s leaders is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. [slideshare id=135263&doc=little-book-of-leadership-powerpoint-119247549778650-1&w=425]

Oct

17

Empathy comes with experience

October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I have just returned from an excursion to Vietnam, which as a teacher was one of the most fulfilling experiences ever. It’s hard to reflect on it without sounding trite and cliched but it was amazing. We embarked on an intense 12-day trip from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi and explored the geographical, historical [...]