Monthly Archives: November 2008
Fly a virtual paper plane into the future of education
I just had to show you this very creative and original site, although I had promised myself before this that I wouldn’t post another thing for a while. You’re going to love this. When you go to the Million … Continue reading
Filed under 21st century learning, creativity, Education, Web 2.0
Words come to life in Wordia
I love the idea of a dictionary created by many people, but Wordia is more than that. It’s a media dictionary created by people sharing their own videos. It’s people talking on video about a word that they’ve chosen. So … Continue reading
Library Odyssey : 2029 future projection
There’s been talk about libraries and librarians becoming an endangered species and eventually dying out. Personally, I think that’s a lot of rubbish. Nothing could be further from the truth. Although, you could say that libraries and librarians are … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Teacher librarians, Web 2.0
Open mind
I thought I’d try Phrasr using the phrase ‘ Minds are like parachutes; they only function when they are open’. Phrasr allows you to choose flickr images for each word in a phrase. See it here. Photo by Fikirbaz It’s … Continue reading
21st century jargon
An article in The Telegraph voted the phrase ‘thinking outside the box’ as the most despised business jargon. Some of these cliches really get on my nerves. For example: Touch base (2), Pushing the envelope (18), In the loop (20). Others … Continue reading
We connect students
Jo McLeay has written an excellent post about connected, or networked, students, following her participation in the Connectivism 08 online course. She got this video from Wendy on Twitter. When I have time, I’d like to read both Jo’s and Wendy’s blogs … Continue reading
Filed under 21st century learning, Education, learning, Web 2.0
The power of Youtube – Queen Rania wins (and we celebrate Jenny Luca’s win too)
Our own Jenny Luca has recently been recognised by the Victorian Institute of Teaching as the winner of the World Teachers Every Day competition. Well done, Jenny! You’ve certainly deserved this award, and you’re an inspiration and model for all … Continue reading
We speak music
It’s challenging keeping up with all the brilliant blogs. I’ve really been enjoying catching up with Karl Fisch’s blog The Fischbowl. Here’s a video that struck a chord (no intended pun) since I’ve been watching our Year 7s create their … Continue reading
Filed under creativity, film, internet, Web 2.0
Blogs are NOT airy-fairy, soul-searching, self-indulgent
You know how you can’t let some things go? Well, the back of my mind is often processing ways to demonstrate to people the value of reading and writing blogs. Recently I read an educator’s comments about introducing teachers to Web 2.0 … Continue reading
Filed under 21st century learning, Education, internet, learning, teachers, teaching, technology, Web 2.0
Humanity meets in the library
This is how it goes. I read Jenny Luca’s post ‘The future of libraries’ which she wrote after reading John Connell’s post ‘Education and the cloud’. John wrote his post after reading Kevin Marks. Kevin had read something Tim O’Reilly … Continue reading
Filed under creativity, Education, internet, learning, teachers, teaching, technology, Web 2.0
