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Perspective

Posted by: ashleytan on: December 9, 2009

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Get some perspective. It’s good for you!

What is Schoolbuk?

Posted by: ashleytan on: December 8, 2009

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Schoolbuk is a platform for teachers to publish resources online. It also seems to be part of a trend to mangle spelling to create some illusion of coolness. I presume that it has not spelled school as “skool” because it has some standards to uphold.
After watching the video, I wonder [...]

Different media…

Posted by: ashleytan on: November 26, 2009

Different literacies!

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‘Nuff said!

Edifying

Posted by: ashleytan on: November 22, 2009

Last week I shared some personal experiences with my classes and I received feedback from a few participants that they found my accounts edifying. To be honest, I had to look up that word to be absolutely certain of what it meant. It was welcome feedback!
Ad thanks to YouTube, I had an edifying weekend.
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PowerPoint tongue-in-cheek

Posted by: ashleytan on: November 20, 2009

A light-hearted but critical look at PowerPoint.

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But really, it’s not just the fault of PowerPoint. We don’t blame the just the car for killing someone. Look at who’s driving and how.

Death of education, dawn of learning

Posted by: ashleytan on: November 16, 2009

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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 [...]

Livestream for iPhone

Posted by: ashleytan on: November 13, 2009

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This is a free service for streaming ‘live’ videos from a webcam, video camera or computer desktop to an iPhone or iPod Touch via 3G or wifi.
Imagine the possibilities! Watch lectures or demonstrations at home or work, collaborate with your peers by streaming reports from the field, set up cheap [...]

How/Why teachers use Twitter

Posted by: ashleytan on: November 8, 2009

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At the 4min 36sec mark, the facilitator asks the panel, “What does it mean to tweet about education?”
The panel answers this question and goes on to describe the power of education in personal learning networks (PLNs).

Ideum multitouch

Posted by: ashleytan on: November 2, 2009

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I no longer dabble with multitouch/surface computing, but I continue to admire the efforts of those who do!
Ideum’s video showcases a fair bit of exploratory work. But I can see the surface computer used to greater effect for collaborative learning!

Video games and tangential learning

Posted by: ashleytan on: October 30, 2009

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I just discovered this YouTube video. I might just use this the next time I facilitate game-based learning in the ICT course.


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