Archive for January, 2007
Electronic oral essays
Great example of students (school age) producing oral essays. Basically they use a photo slide show software package to link photos together into a given sequence and timeframe. They have also added their commentary together with sound effects and music as required. Great stuff. Great use of learning technology.
“All semester long, my students have been [...]
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Your iPod is now a phone and browser
The long awaited iPhone has just been announced at January’s MacWorld Conference in San Fransisco. You can view Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, presenting the new product here.
It looks like to be a very smart and useful piece of kit. Not only is it an iPod but it is also a mobile phone complete with 2 [...]
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Video lectures on your iPod
Marjorie Brodie contacted me with regards to a video downloading and streaming project she has been involved in.
In Marjorie’s’ words “I know that we can put Podcasts on StudyNet, but we have also been experimenting with both streaming video and video downloads for iPods and mobile phones. Thought you might like to have a look. [...]
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The new learning landscape
Stewart Mader has released a new chapter (online) from his book “Using Wiki in Education”. The chapter entitled ‘The New Learning Landscape’ looks at the increasing challenge of acquiring knowledge. There’s so much of it that, even for a particular subject, we are now in the position of having to decide which knowledge is learned [...]
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