First came across this from Wesley Fryer’s post, this video was produced by a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography led by Asst Prof Michael Wesch.
This video calls for us teachers to reflect upon what our students are learning/doing in class when we are ‘teaching n preparing them for tomorrow’. Enjoy n reflect 🙂
[updated 20071019] found an alternate link to the same video here.
Collaborative Online Mind Mapping
saw this post off will richardson’s blog, and am attracted to it as i’m also a mindmap fan myself. MindMeister is the tool which Will has reviewed in his post. the free version allows up to 6 maps to be created, and a fee is required for unlimited map creations and export functions. just to note down that IHMC CmapTools is also a concept-mapping tool (not entirely equal to mind-mapping) and it also allows realtime online collaboration, something which i recalled we experimented when we did our 13th TecXplorers Gathering.
50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story
saw this post off wesley fryer’s blog linking to this incredible post on CogDogRoo, a total of 50 web tools that can be used in the classroom. a demo of how to tell the same story 50 times is also demoed on CogDog via here.
WOW, FIFTY TOOLS !
2 EDUCAUSE CONNECT articles
for record and (future) reading pleasure:
1. Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching [article]
2. Using technology in teaching and learning: Resources to help you navigate a digital world [article]
Webslides (beta, patent pending)
webslides allows one to turn bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows by converting bookmarks, RSS feeds, blogs to slideshows in minutes. pretty cool tool, have not experienced the creation process myself, but you can also take a look at some of the samples available on the page.
saw that it is “patent-pending”, so does it mean that it’ll not be a FREE tool soon *hmm*