TVNZ has today reported that Rangitoto College is going to allow its students access to youtube and Facebook! Controversy!!! YOUTUBE how could they allow that and Facebook …. OUTRAGE http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/college-keeps-youtube-facebook-in-digital-strategy-4457086 I mean, really, what planet are they living on? My students make very good use of Youtube, they access how to videos, revision clips and [...]
In this on the wire update I am looking at a couple of brilliant resources for video. 1. Mediastorm – African Air – http://mediastorm.com/publication/african-air This is a seven minute mini documentary that looks at africa in its diversity from the air. the air part of this mostly from a powered paraglider. Its stunning and the [...]
Infographics are a very powerful tool for learning. While we do have learning preferences – Visual, Auditory, Read/Write or Kinesthetic – our dominant sense is visual. Further we process images faster, some estimate 60,000x faster than text. Infographics when they are well designed effectively carry a message to us and our students that is easy [...]
This video was shared with me through twitter, its simple, straight forward and quite useful. It doesn’t show a wizzy new future, but it does put somethings into perspective. A little bit anyway. It does raise a few questions. How many people are still using overhead projectors as the cutting edge of technology? How many [...]
This is a cool video. Lee, my good friend and colleague has just produced this absolutely cool video on information Fluency and infowhelm. This is a brilliant resourse that sets perfectly the scene for 21st century learning, what we are facing right now and where we are heading. What a stunning clip. Here is the [...]
