Digital Tribes and the Social Web
Steve Wheeler, whose blog I always read, has kindly shared his recent conference presentation via slideshare. Read More
PLE Reflection (after a presentation for our Year 11 conference)
My brief, to present at a Year 11 conference about online tools, has accentuated, in my mind, how far away we are from providing the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) at school students need in a networked society. Your input, via comments at a previous blog post, twitter and yammer proved invaluable but also challenging, when one considers the realities for kids in our schools. Year 11 will have virtually no opportunity, in their day at school,... Read More
Prezi: Cool Online Tools (draft)
This is the first presentation using Prezi I have ever completed; although I have started a few in the past 12 months before the pressure of being prepared for whatever conference led me to not finish (and use my blog or PowerPoint). Prezi has turned out to be a fun tool - once you ‘get’ the concept - and I highly recommend it. Critical comments – on form, style and content - (on this draft) are welcome. Be gentle though,... Read More
Cool Online Tools
Next week I facilitate a workshop designed to assist Year 11 students find some useful online tools to support their learning, especially research, collaboration, organisation, study and presentation. my original wordle There will be a very, very brief presentation and overview of each tool and then students will be free to experiment, exploring the tools of use/interest to them. Do you mind checking out this list and suggesting some more tools?... Read More
Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)
Stick in the Sand
Thanks to Monika Hardy for posting this video. Read More
The End of Publishing As We Know It?
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Multitasking
The PBS public affairs series Frontline recently aired, Distracted by Everything, the first episode in digital_nation – life on the virtual frontier about multitasking. Henry Jenkins has a word of warning about the program though, he suggests the documentary ‘panders to the biases’ of viewers. His analysis of how students multitask is important and comments about the dangers of envisaging a ‘national norm’ sage. My... Read More
What Matters Now
“As students realise that the tools for living are the same for learning, they will naturally expand the range of things they can do.” Read Download Genesis Read More
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