Metaverse Week in Review
An excellent way to get un touch with the virtual world -- even if you haz not avatar or feeling rexxed.
A blog for all the little things I notice
Hi, My name is Dean Groom, and I write Design 4 Learning to help educator’s transition from traditional classrooms. I am interested in renewing curricula and professional practice by embedding new pedagogical classroom practice to create authentic, realistic and relevant learning for today’s learners.
I started my first blog in 2004, to help me better understand how technology changes learning. I now help educators deal with the rapid changes in technology, social media, games and virtual worlds.
I’ve co-authored two books about Learning with Technology with long time friend, Judy O’Connell, whom I regularly work with to provide professional learning for teachers and executives.
My career prior to education was in Advertising and Marketing, specializing in interactive design and media, as an Art Director and Typographer.
I am now Head of Educational Development Design at Macquarie University, and previously Head of Information Technology at a Sydney High School – passionate about creating workable ‘Web2.0’ classroom environments.
I run regular workshops, provide advice to educators and mentor teachers beginning to explore the pedagogical impact of technology – and blended, enquiry approaches to learning. I work with a diverse range of educators in all sectors, participate and speak at conferences and symposia. I have particular interest in virtual worlds and game based learning.
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[sigtc] DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS FOR CHILDREN
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From: "O'Black, Bryan" <OBlackB@sasd.k12.pa.us>
Date: 27 November 2009 5:00:23 AM AEDT
To: "SIGTC members list" <sigtc@ISTE-Listserver.iste.org>
Subject: [sigtc] DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS FOR CHILDREN
Reply-To: "O'Black, Bryan" <OBlackB@sasd.k12.pa.us>
WIKIPEDIA CO-FOUNDER DESIGNS WIKI-STYLE DIRECTORY OF
EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS FOR CHILDREN
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Nov. 12, 2009) - Dr. Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, has launched a new website designed to gather and organize educational videos for students ages 3 to 18.
The site, www.watchknow.org <http://www.watchknow.org/> , launched in October and currently features more than 11,000 videos across 2,000 categories on subjects such as math, science and history. The nonprofit site features new software, specially developed for the site by Dr. Sanger, which allows wiki-style collaboration among users.
"Think of it as YouTube meets Wikipedia, filtering out everything but quality educational videos," says Dr. Sanger. "WatchKnow.org links together content from traditional sites, and also allows users of the site to improve the organization of the video categories, which makes finding the video you need much easier."
The site, which features videos from National Geographic, YouTube and Google Videos among others, took more than 18 months to develop and has been endorsed by educators from schools including Harvard, Stanford, Brigham Young and more. WatchKnow.org is designed to complement and enhance the traditional learning experience for students as they study concepts that are traditionally hard to learn.
"Many of our country's educators are unaware of the enormous amount of good video content available for free online," said Chareen Snelson, an advisory committee member and professor at Boise State specializing in online educational videos. "aving a central repository of organized, quality videos is a blessing for busy teachers and students."
WatchKnow.org is funded by the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi (CFNM), which has set the goal of offering more than 50,000 videos on the site by the end of 2010. The site offers tips for video searching, separate pages for students, parents and teachers, and a guide for contributors.
"Technology is playing an ever-increasing role in the development of our children, and WatchKnow.org can be a big piece of that puzzle," says Tom Pittman, president of the CFNM. "We believe that with the help of educators, we can create something very important and useful to the future of education."
About the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi
The Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi was formed in 2000 with the mission to place an Internet-accessible computer in every classroom in the state. It became a pilot project for Mississippi, and the state became the first with an Internet-accessible computer in every public classroom. The foundation's continuing function is to connect hundreds of donors with charitable causes that benefit education, health and children.
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Bryan O'Black
ISTE SIGTC Communications Director
Bryan O'Black, MSEd
Director of Technology
Office of Educational and Information Technology
412-492-1200 x 2825
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Change behavoir nicely.
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2009/11/change_behaviour_nicely.html
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BBC News - What happened to Second Life?
Nice piece of un factual journalism showing how little old media understands about virtual worlds or social media. Lots of general comments and facile references. A good piece to explain to kids why sources of bias are present in much of what people tell them are pillars of authority -- the BBC being well out of touch in this one.
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