boora.ca

Tag: Cool Papers/Articles/Resources

  • How are computers in the classroom really doing?

    This weekend, I was hit by two interesting finds in my Twitter feeds. The first takes a look at what the Alberta Teachers Association – ATA –  (via @joe_bower) thinks needs to be changed to get computers in the classroom to “actually do something (my words)”. The second is a comment from Alan Kay who…

  • 2009 Horizon Report

    I’m sure some of you have seen mention of this (or the Comment Press version) around the ‘net, but for those who haven’t and who can’t be bothered to log in to get to the report, I’ve pulled out the highlights – this is also handy for those non Edu-folk who read, looking for insight…

  • My First YouTube Video

    Well, it’s a very poorly shot video as it’s a rough for some animation that is going to be done later, but it’s my first online Youtube Video – Chemistry Melting Point.

  • Ideas of surveillance

    +++This post started out on my phone and has been trapped in the back end of my database for the weekend – I’ll come back to it when I have time+++ Friday, I took in this really interesting lecture by Meyrowitz, as well as a small panel afterward, who talked about how reality and it’s…

  • Storytelling and technology

    This isn’t digital storytelling from the traditional (it’s more than a month old online so it’s ancient) definition, but it’s more aligned with interactive storytelling. Warren Spector, a great game designer has written an article in Escape about the new storytelling and how the new hardware might actually be a barrier and that to do…