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use this virtual social network phenomenon to teach a global generation of elementary age children to safely and effectively use the Internet to build proper character traits and skills, and who will then work together to create a better world community.
Shakespeare for all ages and stages aims to enhance the educational experience of Shakespeare for young people by providing a map of opportunities for lifelong learning and pleasure in his work.
Increase/Decrease Volume
Pressing modifier keys
while increasing/decreasing (F4/F5 for MacBook) will
slowly increase/decrease the volume bar by a quarter.
Searching by Lyrics
Spotlight in Leopard now supports searching music by its lyric.
Attach Files into Mail
Simple drag-and-drop to the Mail.app icon helps you done the attaching in New
Message.
Working without Mouse or Trackpad
Using only keyboard shortcuts with modifier key
and keys F1 to F3, you can do Turn on Full Keyboard Access, Jump to Menubar and Go to
Dock respectively.
Assign a Shortcut to Multiple
Pool is a social media project developed by ABC Radio National. It's a place to share your creative work with the Pool community and ABC producers - upload music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more. It's a collaborative space where audiences become makers.
The Australia license has now been integrated into the Creative Commons licensing process, so you are able to license your works under this jurisdiction's law.
Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright - all rights reserved - and the public domain - no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work - a "some rights reserved" copyright.
A simple interactive site that animates the drawings you make with the built in tools. Could be great for a number of things such as showing how you worked out maths problems.
VotApedia is an audience response system that doesn't require issuing clickers or need specialist infrastructure.
Known users can create surveys and edit the pages on this site. See if your your account has this functionality by looking for the tag "knownuser" next to your account name. If it doesn't and you want it contact Ken.Taylor@csiro.au. You can also look at other people's survey in the recent surveys, or participate in an active survey below. You can read the presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 conference.
Audience response systems are widely used for education, but not commonly in Australia. It is hoped that removing the complication and expense of clickers will encourage the use of this teaching aid in Australian educational institutions. VotApedia is intended for co-located audiences but also works with remote audiences which has previously been a different class of application. Surveys are in a multiple choice question (MCQ) form.
There is VotApedia Use and Development for more detail about this system.
"New Technology Foundation (NTF)™ was established in 1999 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working to achieve national education reform with schools that desire to model the Napa New Technology High School™."
Opsound is a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Musicians and sound artists are invited to add their work to the Opsound pool using a copyleft license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine.
Simple and easy online multi user whiteboard, start skrbl, give out your URL & start working together. Sketch, text, share files, upload pictures all in one common shared space. There are no new tools to learn, nothing to download, nothing to install. Brainstorm on our simple whiteboard to start thinking together, everyone sees the same screen, everybody gets on the same page.
"What is Poll Everywhere?
The fastest way to create stylish real-time experiences for events using mobile devices
Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print - anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews."
key points (see also my bookmark to the BLC '07 keynote by Professor McFarlane)
- technology is not helping learning (1:30)
- american high schools are counterproductive to success in knowledge society (Bill Gates) (2:30)
- have a model where kids produce their own digital representation of how they see the world (4:00)
- make learning deeper rather than try to cover a lot of content but shallow learning (5:00)
- one suggestion is teaching people to be able to recognise an evidence-based argument and not be susceptible to incorrect information (6:00)
- model for assessment based on this sort of change to curriculum (7:30) - meaningful coursework - mainly in school - not allowing homework to restrict their self learning
- treat school like work in a way with emphasis on quality not quantity (10:00)
- need to connect with parents who see school as different than their schooling and unsure about its benefits (11:00)
- access to technology (12:00) - benefit based on having the access first bit also that their environment but also their culture at home helps them benefit
- top 15% (from BLC keynote) are getting most benefit from access and their culture
- but these normally high achievers can't see school as relevant to them based on what they experience at home and are failing at school (13:30)
- community knowledge and learning capacity building in technology (14:00)
- "digital challenge" program in Bristol (14:40)
- community mentors that learn something then teach to others in the community
- giving more people access and that means they can have choices on what they can do
Professor MacFarlane discusses many issues which ring true to me. In particular:
- lack of vision for what education could be like with new technology (around 4 min mark)
- the web2.0 and technology revolution is great for the 15% of people who have a good life anyway because of their suituation and culture (5:30)
- others don't benefit from the access to the technology - they need help (6:00)
- no change in classroom over last 20 years with computers and in danger of no change in next 20 years (7:30)
- instruction vs. construction (8:30)
- expect learning to change with introduction of technology (10:30) - but hasn't really done so
- student self-directed learning is separate from school work i.e. at home and not related to school (14:30)
- much of what kids do on computers at home is trivial (16:00)
- the ones that do have good experiences are the same 15% (16:30)
- kids that are missing out have a computer at home probably but no access to the community that enables them to have these experiences (17:10)
- doing something by themselves does not really benefit them - it is being part of a community that had benefit for learning
- what are we dong for these people? (19:10)
- talking about missing pedagogical model for how to teach (22:00)
- teachers are expected to use technology to provide innovative learning but no model against which to do so, some don't use it at all, some use it inappropriately - there maybe some individual examples but not overall (23:00)
- schools bad at connecting with their communities in a learning sense (26:00)
- talks about chinese online writing community and how they comment, collaborate (34:00)
- community (47:30)
- communitites aren't formed when people are brought together in schools etc.
- need to have a common problem or interest (48:30) - Plant's definition?
- in education the problem is because assessment is done individually (49:00)
- so forming groups and sharing ideas is not attractive for students - worried about not getti
