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 Futures site, you see a blue sky with fluffy clouds and hundreds of paper planes flying around. [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Fly a virtual paper plane into the future of education
Posted in 21st century learning, Education, Web 2.0, creativity, tagged 2025, 21st century learning, 21st century skills, Beyond Current Horizons, Education, future, Futurelab, internationalplp21, Million Futures, questions, responses, survey, United Kingdom, Web 2.0 on November 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Words come to life in Wordia
Posted in Education, Web 2.0, creativity, film, humour, language, learning, play, teachers, teaching, tagged classroom, community, dictionary, English, ideas, internationalplp21, lesson, meaning, media, video, Web 2.0, words on November 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 it’s much more than a definition. Watch Oscar Puppet’s video defining the word ‘buncombe’ and [...]
Library Odyssey : 2029 future projection
Posted in Education, Teacher librarians, Web 2.0, tagged DaVinci Institute, future, internationalplp21, libraries, schools, Teacher librarians, technology, Thomas Frey, Web 2.0 on November 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
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 shedding their skins, evolving with changes that are taking place.
The DaVinci Institute does a good job [...]
Open mind
Posted in Education, Web 2.0, art, photos, tagged 21st century learning, creativity, images, internationalplp21, phrasr, Web 2.0 on November 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 probably not the best phrase to use, since some of the words don’t really match the pictures. Still, I can [...]
21st century jargon
Posted in Web 2.0, language, tagged 21st century skills, cliches, internationalplp21, jargon, language, Web 2.0 on November 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
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 I haven’t heard of: Blue sky thinking (6), Singing from the same hymn sheet (10), [...]
We connect students
Posted in 21st century learning, Education, Web 2.0, learning, tagged 21st century skills, connected, connectivism, internationalplp21, Jo McLeay, networked, students, Web 2.0 on November 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 post to post.
One paragraph that did stand out for me in [...]
The power of Youtube – Queen Rania wins (and we celebrate Jenny Luca’s win too)
Posted in Education, Web 2.0, film, humour, internet, technology, tagged Arab, award, communication, culture, internationalplp21, Islam, Jordan, misconceptions, prejudice, Queen Rania, technology, youtube on November 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
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 educators.
Across the other side of the world, a member of royalty [...]
We speak music
Posted in Web 2.0, creativity, film, internet, tagged collaboration, Fischbowl, music, video, youtube on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 own music and trailers for the film School of rock.
Humanity meets in the library
Posted in Education, Web 2.0, creativity, internet, learning, teachers, teaching, technology, tagged bloggingcorner08, change, Education, future, information, internationalplp21, internet, knowledge, learning, libraries, school on November 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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 had written. Tim was writing after having read a book by Kim Stanley Robinson. Before spiralling [...]
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