I’m letting myself take a distraction break from marking and entering numbers into the grading program (Good old numbers … what would school be like without them?). In OLDaily Stephen has posted about his presentation “What you really need to learn“. Great stuff. I’m looking forward to the audio. Here’s a tasty little morsel from [...]
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Graham Atwell has published a screencast of his presentation Personal Learning Environments – Live at Edinburgh. There’s just so much I like about his presentation, but two main ideas stand out in my mind: A personalized learning environment is not an application. It is a suite of services which could be, I suppose, web based [...]
Saturday, September 2, 2006
I just read about this via Dean: K12 Online 2006 Conference… Announcing the first annual “K12 Online 2006? convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, Oct. 23-27 and Oct. [...]
I have a couple of days in Saskatoon this week, and today I did something that has been on my personal to-do list for a while – I saw the film An Inconvenient Truth. (Tangential note – I saw the film at the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon. If you love films, and you like to [...]
Jay Wilson is talking about using iMovie/iChat. Some key points Ugly is good. Don’t worry about making it beautiful – capturing good content is more important than competing with Spielberg. A lot of educational video is not played back under optimum conditions – low bandwidth, old equipment, etc. so spending a lot of extra time [...]
Daniel Mittleholtz is presenting about Multimedia Learning Theory (Mayer), and how media should be applied to provide optimum retention of information. (Daniel has a MLT blog, as well as a podcasting blog). Started with an overview of the presentation and a slides summarizing Multimedia Learning Theory. problem of engaging learners online. We use e-mails and [...]
Today the EdTech Posse gave our very first presentation together – EdTech Posse: Podcasting in Real Time. Dean has already put a short description and some photos up over on Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech. I have to agree with Dean that it was a pleasure to present with the rest of the posse. [...]
From EdTech Posse site – The Posse is riding to TLt 2006: On May 1, all four members of the EdTech Posse will be presenting at the Teaching and Learning with the Power of Technology 2006 conference in Saskatoon. Our presentation about podcasting (no big surprise), is entitled Podcasting in Real Time. During the presentation, [...]
News from the BCEd Online Annual Conference Stephen’s Web: A Conversation With Stephen Downes And yes, the hiatus is nearly over; stay tuned to this channel for more. What more need I say – follow the link, already! I haven’t even listened to it yet, but I know that its going to be some seriously [...]