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Jane Hart is a Social Learning Specialist, Founder of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT) and a blogger at Jane's Pick of the Day and Social Media in Learning. You can also find her on Facebook and on Twitter @c4lpt.
Ms. Hart has picked her top 10 blogs about social learning. Right next to the live link for each blog are listed links to 3 recent posts. This gives readers a rapid way to see if each blog is to their taste. No comment yet.
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We look at Thanksgiving parade balloons.What can the geometry of two-dimensional surfaces reveal about how these mammoth balloons are put together? In the process we apply these concepts: curvature rational functions
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Creative thinking techniques are to innovation what two espressos are to waking up. They help, but you don't necessarily want to depend on them. BELIEVE IT or not, it's actually possible to start your day without coffee! You could, for example, get enough rest. Or, hold the sugar, exercise! In the same way, it's possible to be a creative superstar at work without ever using a creative thinking technique. How? By adding one or more of the following CREATIVE PICK-ME-UPS to your daily routine. They're simple. They're fun. And they may just be the spark you need to unlock your inner genius.
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Bambuser lets you broadcast live and interactive video from your mobile phone, webcam or DV-camera — and it's free and has no time limits. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Larry Ferlazzo is a prolific blogger and amazing collector of websites. His many lists of top sites are consistently very worthwhile. Here is his list of the top 40 in 2011 (as of Nov. 14, 2011). -JL
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"A new web technology is promising to do for video what the internet did for text.
The possibilities of this technology are endless.
Although similar functionality could be partially achieved using a closed environment such as Flash, Popcorn uses a new standard called HTML5, which is built directly into the browser.
To explore the potential of the technology, Canadian director Katerina Cizek used Popcorn.js together with a 3D graphics technology called Web GL to create a new documentary.
The web-based documentary allows the user to explore a simple 3D environment and click to view one of six narratives. The environment you see is linked to the weather in Toronto at the time you are watching – so if the sky is overcast there, it will be overcast on your screen.
The narrative segments are linked to Wikipedia articles and Flickr photographs that update as people upload more photos.
The documentary itself was made without much video, relying instead on photos provided by the residents of the tower and recordings of their comments. ...
Because the documentary is essentially a 3D virtual environment, the viewer gets to control aspects such as the camera (viewing) angle.
Via Robin Good
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If you’re considering mobile learning in any shape or form, I’d suggest you give these a browse. One of the travails of my paper writing (still continues) was that good web resources were quite hard to find, so be spared the ordeal, this is a good place to start. Via Nik Peachey
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In the video below, Justin Reich describes the ability of online learning environments to record and retain real-time learning interactions between teachers, students and peers, and to open up possibilities for new forms of K-12 assessment. Here are just a few highlights from the video, but the full interview (below) is flush with analytical insights from this former social studies teacher.
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Here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Many of these tools and services are free or have a free trial period, which can encourage experimentation. Each tool fulfills at least one of these criteria: encourages collaboration; enables user-generated content or input; provides a way to share; and facilitates informal or formal learning.
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Designers, in many ways, are quintessential first adopters and ideal test customers: They're technically savvy and demanding, with an extreme attention to detail and polish. Via maxOz, Martin (Marty) Smith
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Using Web 2.0 tools in kindergarten may seem difficult to implement but the results can be fruitful. There are enough online tools to bring technology into your classes that can make your children inspire, excite and make connection with the rest of the world. Here are my 5 favorite tools for teachers of very young learners: Via Carla Arena
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Scientists say a new generation of contact lenses that project images in front of the eyes is a step closer after successful animal trials.
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A cool introduction video for WeVideo, the new editing system integrated with YouTube gives you a great introduction to all of the basic features and benefits that this new service has to offer. Via Robin Good |
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"The best way to learn anything is to teach it to someone else". Isn't that what you've always been told? It's true ... and also a great philosophy to apply in the classroom. Most educators spend a lot of time honing their skills as teachers, expecting students to absorb and learn what they are taught. Sometimes however, students learn more effectively when empowered to learn and then teach complex concepts. There are quite a few apps and techniques that can allow students to express their knowledge by creating mini tutorials on the iPad. Via Sam Gliksman, Lucy Gray
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Twitter seems to be here to stay. As one of the most popular ways for teachers, students, and the general public to communicate, it’s becoming a must-have tool in almost every teacher’s toolbox.
However, numerous recent studies have shown that education in general has been slow to adopt social media.
In an effort to speed up this adoption process, below you’ll find a boatload of resources on the past, present, and future of Twitter in education as well as some helpful guides to using the tool in the classroom. Via Gust MEES, João Greno Brogueira, Costas Vasiliou
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Want a culture of innovation? Choose a few of the following guidelines and make them happen. If not YOU, who? If not NOW, when?
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Rory's Story Cubes are brilliant. Originally invented as 9 dice-like cubes inscribed with a total of 54 images that lead to over 10 million possible combinations...to be used to guide the construction and telling of stories. The actual cubes have been used for several years in classrooms around the world to advance second language development, improve literacy skills, tell stories to improve speaking and listening, to overcome writer's block, to facilitate creative problem-solving, and more. This game has won several major awards.
Now the cubes have gone virtual as an iPhone App. See a demo video here and see endorsements from users. The app is $1.99 in the iTunes store, and plays on all iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad).
This is a wonderfully creative and enjoyable way to build language and social skills.
Do check this out. I rate it 10 out of 10! -JL 
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment,
November 26, 2011 2:38 AM
Very cool Jim. I love Siftables from MIT media lab too. I like the idea of cubes because I see us moving to a snippet world here soon where everything is tagged and constantly spinning in both space and time. One possible future for content developers :).
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"Middlebury? The military? Beauty school? How do 18-year-olds in 2011 see the rest of their lives?" Via Dennis Richards, Jim Lerman
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Robert Marzano's own summary of his research leading to unequivocal endorsement of interactive whiteboards as a way to improve student achievement. From 2009. -JL
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Crowdsourcing of some aspect of the creation of online learning content seems like a foregone conclusion. At some point in the not-too-distant-future, I believe that many jobs, maybe even a majority of jobs, will be performed online as we move towards a crowdsourced world. We will work with a distributed network of people, who we may never meet, to create things for other people who we may never meet. Via Nik Peachey
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TED Talks iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Via Peter Verschuere
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Instructional designers need to run, not walk, away from classroom-thinking and get to the point of providing short, quick business focused learning points that are easily accessible when and where our learners need them. This means leveraging new technologies to deliver non-traditional instruction.
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Publishing content online in eye-catching formats is easier than ever. Use these easy-to-use tools to publish, share and celebrate student work.
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In the spirit of David Letterman, here's my "Top 10 Signs Your Schools Caught in a Time Warp." A list for school administrators.
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ASCD Express's new Tech for Teachers column, by guest columnist Jason Bedell, uses both text and a tutorial video to encourage teachers to bring web technology into their practice in simple but meaningful ways that can contribute to student engagement and learning. |
