Here’s a useful way of using Pageflakes in the classroom. A not so recent but still very exciting and relevant blog post by Will Richardson in Weblogg-ed (dated 21 November 2006) discusses Pageflakes as a dynamic student portal. Will talks about creating a topic-specific page on Darfur/Sudan built on tag feeds from YouTube for videos, [...]
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Green Pageflakes
Posted in Education, Web 2.0, flickr, tagged 21st_century, blogs, dynamic, feeds, flickr, global, learning, portal, RSS, teaching, youtube on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Animation
Posted in Web 2.0, humour, play, tagged animation, fun, humour, Web 2.0 on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although this looks like something more akin to primary level, a little bit of fun never hurt anybody in secondary school either. Fodey.com also offers talking squirrels, cats, owls and flowers. You can custom-make a newspaper, wizard text and movie clapper board. I followed the link to the generator blog – have a look; some [...]
Starry starry night
Posted in Web 2.0, tagged 3-dimensional, creative, Education, film, geography, learning, maths, Second Life, video on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Skoolaborate put me onto this video by a young film maker, Robbie Dingo. The author of this blog uses this example to illustrate the learning potential of virtual worlds. He lists learning areas, such as maths, geography and problem solving that are demonstrated in the creation of this short and creative [...]
SPLONK
Posted in Education, flickr, tagged art, blog, cartoons, comic, draw, drawing, sound_effect, wiki on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
SPLONK
Originally uploaded by el estratografico
I really enjoyed looking at scans of old comic book sound effects mentioned in the illustration and cartooning blog, Drawn! . I’ve been researching information about comics and manga for desktop author booklets to go into my art wiki. My wiki is growing but nobody is using it as far as [...]
Doppelganger
Posted in Web 2.0, tagged Second_Life, virtual, Web2.0 on July 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Library of Congress Exhibit Now Open In Second Life
Originally uploaded by Pathfinder Linden
The weekend heralded a remarkable journey, fraught with virtual dangers, as I embarked on a Second Life adventure. Embarked, yes - not that I actually arrived at any destination. Yes, I registered, assumed my fantastic identity (as far removed from my real one as possible), [...]
The Dick Tracy Show
Posted in Education, Web 2.0, humour, play, tagged images, memories, music, nostalgia, past, programs, shows, TV, video, youtube on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dick Tracy show
Originally uploaded by tsheko
There are many educational YouTube videos to be discovered. Then there are these…
Greenacres
The Addams family
My three sons
The Patty Duke Show
Father knows best
Mr Edd
Bewitched
Lassie
Bonanza
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Posted in Web 2.0, tagged blogs, comments, John_Larkin, socialnetworking, Web 2.0 on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Larkin’s blog struck a chord with me when he talked about signing up for everything under the sun ‘in a drunken Web 2.0 haze’. Me too. My ‘registrations’ information word doc is now into its third page – yes, you heard correctly. But what am I to do!? There’s so much out there, and [...]
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