Reading Victoria is a program for adults run by the State Library of Victoria which encourages reading as a creative activity, expands choice and promotes interaction amongst readers. That’s what the website says, and I’m thinking – here are three essential aspects of reading that would work as a point of departure for reading promtion [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Morphing montages
Posted in Remarkable, art, photos on August 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Cruising through one of my favourite blogs, the ABC’s Articulate, I came across a clever film by US video artist, Philip Scott Johnson, who creates morphing montages. How long did it take to make this film of 500 years of women in art?
If you’re thinking of researching all the paintings used [...]
21st century learning
Posted in Education, Teacher librarians, Web 2.0, tagged 21st_century_learning, blogs, change, digital, Jenny_Luca, learning, play, Sheryl_Nussbaum-Beach, students, teachers, teaching, technologies, tools, Web2.0, Web3.0, Will_Richardson on August 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »
‘Our students are changing … but schools are not.’
This is a leitmotif of a professional development program, Powerful Learning Practice (PLP) run by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson, which will run in Australia soon, and in which our school has the privilege of participating.
As stated on the PLP website, ‘Powerful Learning Practice offers a unique [...]
Is school bad for kids?
Posted in Education, Teacher librarians, Web 2.0, tagged assessment, change, curriculum, engagement, learning, schools, students, Students2.0, teachers, Web2.0 on August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Further to my recent post about open assessment tasks and true learning, you may want to have a look at Clay Burell’s posts on his blog Beyond School. I suppose I’m late to discover Clay but I figure others will be able to share my new discovery. Here’s what he says in his post entitled [...]
I blog, you blog …
Posted in Web 2.0, humour, tagged blog, grammar, language, linguistics, Twitter, wiki on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What’s the linguistic deal with new words, such as ‘blog’, ‘wiki’, ‘twitter’?
Do they get conjugated? I blog, you blog, he/she/it blogs, we blog, you (formal/plural) blog, they blog
Future tense: I will twitter
Subjunctive: If I were wikid, I’d ….
Conditional tense: If I twitter hard, I will …
Imperative: Twitter more!
Are they declined? Do they have a gender?
Can [...]
Who says you can’t get a camel through the eye of a needle?
Posted in Education, Remarkable, tagged art, artwork, camel, creativity, image, micro, microminiature, needle on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found this amazing microminiature work of art on the blog, Uncertain times.
This is the astonishing work of Nikolai Aldunin.
You can’t help thinking, as one commenter observed, it’s really a big world full of many wonders. I’m wondering, as I trawl through so many examples of creativity, thanks to internet exposure – are these people [...]
Japan Media Arts Festival: Ryukyudisko’s “Nice Day”
Posted in Education, Remarkable, photos, tagged anime, festivals, Japan, music videos, photos, Ryukyudisco, story on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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I’m having trouble embedding the video; maybe I’ll figure it out later
I discovered a brilliant film in Frames per second in a post by Emru Townsend. Ryukyudisko’s “Nice day” was a stand-out in the 2007 Japan Media Arts Festival’s Entertainment Division. I can see why. This film begs multiple viewing. This is what Emru [...]
Web 2.5
Posted in Education, Web 2.0, play, tagged blogging, blogging corner, edna, learning, play, tools, Web 2.0 on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Darren Kuropatwa remarked on the development of Web 2.0 learners over a period of 12 months.
‘Last year I left the conference hearing everyone saying things like:
I have to learn flickr
I have to learn wikis
I have to learn blogs
I have to learn [insert social media tool du jour]
This year the buzz was much more about pedagogy. [...]
What is learning?
Posted in Education, Web 2.0, humour, tagged higher order thinking, learning, process, roadrunner, transparency, Wile.E Coyote on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Further to my last point, I’d like to ask anyone out there what their definition of learning is. Without thinking for too long, in my opinion it should be a transparent process, one that could be mapped. It might read like this: wondering, confusion, asking questions, organising the answers into categories, [...]
Open assessment task controversy
Posted in Education, Teacher librarians, Web 2.0, tagged assessment, Chris Betcher, examinations, John Connell, learning, mindset, pedagogy, PLC, Presbysterian Ladies College, Sydney, thinking on August 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A topic close to my heart raised by Chris Betcher in his blog, has sparked debate and given the opportunity for many to voice their opinions (and frustrations). Chris teaches at PLC, Sydney, and blogs about the controversial move his school has taken by having open assessment tasks, testing not content memorisation, but student response [...]
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