Posts Tagged ‘vimeo’
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).
It’s context, not isolation
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 27, 2009
I found this Vimeo video from a ReadWriteWeb article, You Can’t Squeeze Knowledge From a Pixel.
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It has little to do with education. However, it reminded me of something I try to emphasize in the ICT course that I facilitate and am now harping on in the EdPsyII course. What makes learning meaningful is context, [...]
1:1 and surface computing
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 9, 2009
What would I learn without RSS? Very little! RSS is one of my personal PD (professional development) tools and with it I learn or get something reinforced every day!
One blog I follow is Chris Dawson’s. He recently asked how important is 1:1 to literacy? He doesn’t have all the answers (no one does), but he [...]
Twimailer
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 7, 2009
Twimailer will definitely help you decide whether to follow someone when you get the email that someone is following you on Twitter. Follow?
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It seems to work well. But I don’t why my Twitter email setting keeps changing back to my original Gmail one.
Now I wish there was something to AUTOMATICALLY filter and delete from [...]
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 [...]
Bird’s eye view
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 10, 2009
Sometimes all it takes is a different way of looking at things. Add to that the talent to take advantage of that perspective and you get something like this!
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Holographic gesturing
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 25, 2009
When Samsung made a product announcement recently, they decided to use the latest eye candy.
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I would love to see students using this technology to create presentations, interactive works of art or music, or anything else for that matter in the not too distant future!
Creative use
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 14, 2009
Some time back, I blogged about how media might change but human behaviour doesn’t play catch up. Below I feature a video that I think illustrates a good use of media tools like Vimeo or YouTube.
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Unlike TV, the Web allowed many other people to participate (and collaborate) in [...]
Windows 7 multitouch
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 11, 2009
Ooh, a demo of surface computing using the Touch Pack.
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The screen had an LED array, much like the prototype that we have at the MxL. Sadly, we do not have the support or momentum to develop it further.
Is Google making us clever or stupid?
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 10, 2009
Last year, a writer at The Atlantic asked Is Google Making Us Stupid? Recently another writer from the same publication wondered if the opposite was true. They might seem to be taking different sides, but they are really providing depth to the same coin.
The first author said:
the Net seems to be doing is chipping [...]
