Year: 2007
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The novelty of news and importance of media literacy
The Engines of Our Ingenuity podcast has a great, short episode narrated by Catherine Patterson titled, “INVENTING THE NEWSPAPER.” Students in school today may take the terms “current events” and “news” for granted, but these types of real-time and near real-time information sources were invented and became popular, relatively speaking, only yesterday. Here in the…
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Novelty and curiosity essential for engagement and learning
Dr. Elizabeth Zelinski of USC was recently interviewed about an extensive memory study of older adults by the authors of the SharpBrains blog. In the interview, Zelinski stated: The physical fitness analogy is a good one, in that cognitive enhancement requires the engagement in a variety of activities, those activities must be novel, adaptive and…
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USS Oklahoma Memorial Dedication Ceremony Videos
I reorganized the pages in our Oklahoma World War II Veteran Stories project wiki today, and added links to 13 different videos of and relating to the USS Oklahoma Memorial Dedication Ceremony on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 2007. That wiki page is now part of the section “Videos and MultiMedia” on…
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Enabling social bookmarking
I am a vocal advocate for web-based social bookmarking. My latest article for the TechEdge is titled “Social Bookmarking 101,” and in my morning workshop yesterday in Richardson, Texas (“Powerful Ingredients for Digitally Interactive Learning”) my top recommendation for participants following the session was to play, explore, and begin using del.icio.us social bookmarking as they…
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K12Online07 recommendations for Bud’s Peer Teacher
Bud the Teacher has asked for recommendations of K12Online07 presentations for a social studies teacher at his school. His blog rejected my comment (probably because I included so many links) so I’m posting it here and then reference linking this post as a comment on his blog. Bud: Several of my top recommendations for the…
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Question for ESC 10 Educators
What are the most important digital tools for teachers to use personally and with students in the classroom? If you enjoyed this post and found it useful, subscribe to Wes’ free newsletter. Check out Wes’ video tutorial library, “Playing with Media.” Information about more ways to learn with Dr. Wesley Fryer are available on wesfryer.com/after.
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How is cooking like teaching and learning?
Question for ESC 10 Educators in our 12/17/2007 workshop!Please share your answers as comments! If you enjoyed this post and found it useful, subscribe to Wes’ free newsletter. Check out Wes’ video tutorial library, “Playing with Media.” Information about more ways to learn with Dr. Wesley Fryer are available on wesfryer.com/after.
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I’ll pass on the Kindle, give me a thinner and cooler laptop
As an educator, if you believe learning is all about the passive consumption of content, you might be ecstatic to learn about Amazon’s new Kindle eBook reader, released to compete with the Sony eBook reader that hit shelves this fall. (Nod to “The Clever Sheep,” Rodd Lucier.) If you are yearning for a smaller, cooler…
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Most important digital tools for teachers?
In your opinion, what are the most important digital tools for teachers to use personally and with students in the classroom? That is a basic question we will start with in tomorrow’s workshop in Richardson, Texas, which begins at 8:30 am US Central time and runs till about noon. Please share your ideas and links…
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Slow hotel Internet connection and a ridiculously broad AUP
I’m in Dallas this evening, and will be presenting what should be a fun workshop tomorrow at the Region 10 Education Service Center in Richardson for their staff, which I have titled “Powerful Ingredients for Digitally Interactive Learning.” As usual, I’m making some last minute adjustments to my presentation and curriculum for tomorrow, but unfortunately…