Archive forNovember, 2008

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Networks and Connected Learning

November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This video describes how students can use the web to create a powerful learning network. Created by Wendy Drexler, The Networked Student, was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes in 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Drexler’s high school students as part of a Contemporary Issues [...]

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Media Literacy

November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Members of the research team at Project New Media Literacies discuss the social skills and cultural competencies needed to fully engage with today’s participatory culture. Featuring Henry Jenkins, and produced by Anna Van Someren at Project New Media Literacies. In the past, media literacy was about “getting consumers to think critically about what they were [...]

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Freedom of expression in Iran

November 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

This short film from students at the Vancouver Film School explores how people in Iran are using blogs as a safe form of expression on taboo topics such as politics, love and religion. Interestingly, according to this video, Iran is the “third largest country of bloggers” in the world. Iran: A nation of bloggers from [...]

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Ancient Rome in 3-D

November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Google Earth has added to its software a three-dimensional simulation that painstakingly reconstructs nearly 7,000 buildings of ancient Rome, including the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Circus Maximus. Ancient Rome in 3-D

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Shared culture

November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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