Archive for June, 2007
Photosynth and the 3D web?
Very interesting demo (from the recent TED event). Essentially Photosynth is a new way of looking at photos and images on the computer. You can display a huge collection of photos, view particular images from different angles and zoom in to minute detail. So far so good. However the software is able generate a collection [...]
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Defining and Understanding Virtual Worlds
By Karl M. Kapp
If you want to gen up on virtual worlds and their possible applications to learning this article is good starting point.
Second Life of course gets a mention together with some examples. IBM for instance use it for mentoring and orientating new employees. IBM have more than one island and am currently having [...]
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Flickr in Education
From Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 3 by Brian Benzinger. Web Link
Lots of great things in the article. The items on flickr are particularly interesting.
“I can also see Flickr being used in photography classes allowing students to keep an organized collection of their work, share their photos with the world, [...]
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Top Ten Missing Features of Second Life as an Educational Simulation Platform
Okay so another item for you Second Lifers and virtual world enthusiasts. Clark Aldrich in his blog has posted a top 10 list of MISSING features in SL as an educational platform. A couple of interesting ones include:
# Dynamic AI Characters, with which participants can repeatedly try new behavior to see how they react (see [...]
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A second look at school life
By Quin Parker,
More Second Life. Love it or hate it (well perhaps ‘hate’ is too strong, maybe a case of not appreciating it as being applicable to your teaching) it does raise a lot of questions with regards to teaching in virtual worlds.
This article explores the OU’s Schome project in which involves teaching 13 - [...]
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Flickr, Flickr and more Flickr
I’m currently in the middle of an article on school use of podcasts, blogs and videos. The photo sharing site Flickr also gets a mention together with some great examples and more links. As is the way of things I’ve now been completely sidetracked into looking at the use of Flickr for teaching and learning.
For [...]
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Shift Happens
No not a spelling mistake but a presentation on the shifting technological and by extension educational aspects of the world. A very good presentations and I have been aware of this for a number of months. It’s interesting to see, in the true sense of web 2.0 (what goes up can be taken down and [...]
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SlideShare - the YouTube of presentations
Increasingly I’m seeing examples of embedded PowerPoint (and other type) presentations in blogs, wikis and websites in general. Essentially what we have is SlideShare which is a sort of YouTube for presentations. It uses the same basic format as YouTube in which you can upload your slides for other users to view, comment on and rate. [...]
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Tips on effective presentation design
From the blog of Vicki A. Davis (Cool Cat Teacher Blog) a nice set of links on effective PowerPoint design together with some examples.
I’ve embedded a couple of the examples below (via SlideShare - kind of a version of ‘YouTube’ but for slide presentations rather than video).
[slideshare id=54123&doc=creative-web-20-learning-5570&w=425]
[slideshare id=60448&doc=microblogging-tiny-social-objects-on-the-future-of-participatory-media-2898&w=425]
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Confessions of a Podcast Junkie
By Carie Windham
Great article on podcasting written by a student and focused on the student perspective. Particular interest is podcasting in terms of students creating their own podcasts and hence engaging in writing their own learning material.
On the advantages of podcasted lectures: “”Reviewing came in handy, they all say, especially during project or exam times. [...]
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