Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’
Alan November on integrating technology
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 29, 2009
Here is a video offering interesting perspectives on technology integration in schools. Here are my takeaways…
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Alan November believes that schools are using the Internet mostly for information instead of collaboration. He also added that the biggest barrier is not teaching teachers how to use technology but for them to shift control to students. Students [...]
Participatory storytelling
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 3, 2009
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Don’t procrastinate. Participate!
CC and FairShare
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 7, 2009
The days of copyright might be numbered. Personally, I’d like to see things like Creative Commons and FairShare become the accepted norm.
If this happens, then I think we can really get into the mode of remixing, collaborating, and knowledge creating!
Collaborate with yourself?
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 16, 2009
Technology is a great enabler of collaboration. Things like wikis and MixedInk immediately come to my mind.
But how about technologies that allow you to “collaborate” with yourself (and thus let you to express yourself creatively)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuU00Q3RhDg
A paradigm waiting to shift?
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 7, 2008
Chris Dawson invariably touched on a hot topic: Multitouch technology. He wondered out loud “Is it a technology looking for a solution and does anyone actually want it?” He concluded that “this isn’t a technology looking for a solution but a paradigm waiting to shift”. How did he get there? Read his blog entry.
While I [...]
Collaboration in its infancy
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 2, 2008
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, thinks that “public collaboration over the Internet is still only in its infancy“. Sad, but true.
I think that is because there aren’t many people who understand what collaboration means. Like most things, the technology is not the rate determining step; it is the people. The tools for collaborating online already [...]
Collaboration vs cooperation
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 24, 2008
I left a concept dangling in mid-air during the course. I mentioned that my trainees might emerge from the course knowing what the difference was between cooperation and collabortation.
I engaged them in two wiki-based writing activities (one which exhibited characteristic of cooperation and the other collaboration). I also embedded this video in the wiki to [...]
Multitouch multi-news!
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 23, 2008
There seems to be a flurry of multitouch technologies in the tech news world! The latest is called the SMART Table.
What I love about this video is that it shows how more than one child can use it together! The bad thing is that it will cost about US$7000-8000 to get [...]
And the moral of the story is?
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 11, 2008
This video is entitled, The Miniature Earth. Watch this and you might learn something. Each person will probably take home a different message.
For me, it is the concept of multimedia literacy and the power of collaboration. Why?
Imagine having to read the same statistics in a newspaper or a report or a [...]
