Posts Tagged ‘technology’
(Digital)Storytelling
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 25, 2011
Video source I love the way Joe Sabia combines traditional storytelling with digital storytelling. Some might consider what he did gimmicky. But I think he used the videos, music, the flicking of photos and even his iPad’s camera to make his point. The story is at the core. The medium helps tell it. The same could [...]
Journalist misses the point
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 24, 2011
[click for larger version, courtesy of @tucksoon] Last Sunday, Geraint Wong of the Straits Times wrote that the Essay software misses the point. [My bit.ly bundle of four articles on the topic] I think that he misses a point in critiquing the use of WriteToLearn and Criterion in essay writing. [My first thoughts on the original article.] We agree [...]
Disruptive
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 27, 2011
by Fu Man Jew First came the phrase “disruptive technologies” to describe things like smartphones because they could change the way we normally do things. For example, you can take a geotagged photo, upload it a photo or map mashup site, tag and describe it, and in the process provide a view for the benefit [...]
Space for learning
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 8, 2010
Video source Loved this video of the seven spaces for learning: 1. Secret spaces 2. Group spaces 3. Publishing spaces (love the idea at the 7min 45sec mark of a video/tweets being projected on the outside wall of a building) 4. Performance spaces 5. Participation spaces (based on the description in the video, this could [...]
We are cyborgs 1.0
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 17, 2010
by Roberto Rizzato â–ºpix jockeyâ—„ Facebook resident When I drafted this blog entry about two weeks ago, I had read (or reread): an interview with Timothy Taylor on The Artificial Ape Neil Steinberg’s piece on Buzzing the Facebook Hive what Clive Thompson wrote in Wired a few months ago What jumped out of the digital [...]
Pushing the envelope
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 18, 2009
When I read the BBC news article Great writers ‘fail’ online test, I was not surprised. Why? Two reasons. First, one of the writing samples was actually a speech. Writing for a speech is not the same as writing for print. Yes, you are writing a speech, but not for someone to read like a [...]
Google Apps in schools
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 24, 2009
Two days ago, I tweeted MOE’s press release on how all schools here were adopting cloud computing in the form of Google Apps. I thought that was wonderful news. What do other people think of it? Chris Dawson who is far away in Massachusetts and a fan of Google Apps seemed pleased for us, but [...]
Broadband divide
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 3, 2009
Yesterday a writer at Ars Technica asked How wide is the world’s digital divide, anyway? More specifically, the writer was wondering about the penetration rates of broadband in various countries. In a survey of 127 countries: only 10 countries are above 80 percent—mostly small places like Hong Kong, Singapore, Denmark, and South Korea. Together, the [...]
Reasons for hating technology
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 18, 2009
I love this open letter to the teacher who said “I hate technology”. But I think that the “sarcasm” is lost on the type of people who have an uninformed loathing for change.
Looking down the road
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 6, 2009
One of the tasks I gave my teacher trainees this coming e-learning week is to watch the iN2015 video. Someone else made this video available on YouTube, but I don’t know if this has been officially sanctioned, so go to the source above if the YouTube version disappears. But along comes Microsoft and they too [...]
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