Posts Tagged ‘slideshare’
Getting things done is not the same as making things happen
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 17, 2009
The phrase above has been attributed to Gina Trapani in the context of social productivity.
It’s arguably also the context for Seth Godin’s free e-book, What Matters Now.
The short book is essentially a mash-up of the thoughts of over 70 thinkers of our time. You can also read the book in the Slideshare embedded above.
Death of education, dawn of learning
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 16, 2009
Slideshare source
Rodd Lucier presents what he thinks are ten current trends that are likely to affect teaching and learning. Here are some of my favourites:
Right-brained thinking
Cloud computing
Creative commons
Crowdsourcing
Social learning
Web 2.0
Virtual worlds
He makes the presentation as a call-to-action to educators to implement change in their classrooms. I am glad that he is creating this awareness and [...]
Nine tribes
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 22, 2009
Source
Lee Rainie, Director of Pew Internet Project, describes nine tribes of the Internet. Which tribe do you belong to?
e-Learning sucks?
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 6, 2009
Thanks to a timely RSS feed from TADO, I found this slideshow. It’s timely because e-learning week just ended for two of my classes and will end this week for another two.
It is also timely because the slides compare positive e-learning experiences to gaming, something which I am getting my classes to experience and reflect [...]
Whatever
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 2, 2009
You may know Mike Wesch from his YouTube videos about Web 2.0 (The Machine is Us/ing Us) or digital natives (A Vision of Students Today).
His latest artefact, The Machine is Changing Us, is on SlideShare (embedded below). If I could re-title it, I’d call it Whatever. You’ll have to watch the whole thing to see [...]
Web 2.0 visualised
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 22, 2009
Have a gander at the creative ways people visualise Web 2.0 as they try to understand and represent it.
SlideShare straight from PowerPoint 2007
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 23, 2008
ReadWriteWeb highlighted an add-on to PowerPoint 2007 that allows you to add a ribbon to let you share a presentation in SlideShare.
PowerPoint has become a fact of life even though is it tends to be linear and lecture-oriented. It has its role and place, but I think that teachers and adminstrators rely on it too [...]
My tweets
- Prague: Video source It’s Christmas eve and I thought I’d share this Vimeo-hosted video.. http://bit.ly/4K6QRi 27 minutes ago
- RT @TechCrunch: More People Around The World Get Their News Online From Google News Than CNN http://bit.ly/776JxY 12 hours ago
- 2000: Some folks don’t like the term “digital native” because they think that it is unnecessa.. http://bit.ly/7IcV1C 14 hours ago
- Christmas: A time to spend with family & friends. Thank God you can choose your friends! Speaking of friends: http://is.gd/5yMRG 14 hours ago
- OLPC XO-3: http://is.gd/5yK36. Vapourware? Hopeware? Imagineware? Noware? 15 hours ago
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