Category: disruptive-technology
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Digital Storytelling, Visual Literacy and 21st Century Learning
Digital Storytelling, Visual Literacy and 21st Century Learning by David Jakes and Joe Brennan http://www.jakesonline.org/ David’s resources on digital storytelling, including LOTS of examples! (FANTASTIC RESOURCES HERE) David is the Instructional Technology Coordinator for Community High School District 99, in Downers Grove, IL djakes@csd99.org Joe is the “Visual Literacy Facilitator” (AV guy in 2 buildings)…
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TechForum Texas Wiki
David Warlick has setup a wiki for use by participants at TechForum. Access it from: http://landmark-project.com/techforum-wiki This wiki allows participants to post links, thoughts, and ideas from the conference. I wrote an article several weeks ago and have submitted it to Edutopia magazine for publication, it is all about what we are DOING here at…
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Thinking Big as the World is Small
Technology and Learning TechForum: Breakthroughs and Best Practices for Technology Leaders Welcome and Opening Keynote: “Thinking Big as the World is Small” by Hall Davidson The cameras in their cell phones make them citizen journalists. The web is their personal library and media center. They communicate in real time with the ends of the earth.…
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IM blocked? Try Meebo!
Miguel Guhlin just IMed me from a free web-based instant messaging service, Meebo. If you are in a location with authoritarian and repressive IT policies (like maybe China or…. a U.S. school district!) Meebo may provide a way for you to use IM. Of course, if this works for you, it would also work for…
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Connectivism presentation and Articulate Presenter
The Connectivism presentation by George Siemens (the eLearnSpace author) is a great 35 minute multimedia reflection about teaching, learning, elearning, and web 2.0. George explores how learning today is often disconnected from the informationally robust environment in which we live and work. He discusses “distributed cognition” and “learning as network creation.” Great stuff, great thoughts,…
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Good Thoughts on Wikis
I am wanting to get Wiki software installed for several projects I am working on, as well as to enable others to start using Wikis. I ran across the article “Exploring with Wiki: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham” tonight, which is an interview with the man credited with inventing Wikis. That article is interesting, and…
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IT blocks iTunes Music Store
I was working with an elementary teacher recently in a school district that will remain unnamed, teaching him about podcasts and showing him how to access them. Of course the Room 208 podcast was the first one we listened to! We installed iTunes on his computer, and I was pleased that his local installation of…
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Web Collaborator
Web Collaborator (webcollaborator.com) is a read/write web (web 2.0) online tool perfect for student projects. It combines a Wiki and a discussion board to help students collaborate on group projects. Thanks to Tim Wilson for the head’s up on this. 🙂
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eLearn 2005 Presentation on Podcasting
I have made numerous modifications and additions to my paper presentation today, “Podcasting as Disruptive Transmediation,” that I am giving later this afternoon here in Vancouver at the eLearn 2005 World Conference on eLearning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education. Someone at the conference asked me to address IP (intellectual property) and podcasting, so…
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Stanford Embraces Podcasting
According to this article in today’s WebProNews, Stanford University is embracing podcasting. Visit the site “Stanford on iTunes” (http://itunes.stanford.edu) and link to (apparently) iTunes only feeds for: Heard on Campus Global Issues: Stanford Initiatives Music Faculty Lectures Sports Books and Authors Amy Bellinger is not willing to say educators have a professional obligation to embrace…