Category: Teaching
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Learning done, time for fun
I just finished Prensky’s book this morning and I’m not moving on to A Theory of Fun by Raph Koster. I got this book at the same time as Don’t bother me… but now I’m more interested after comments made in Prensky’s book about IDs taking the fun out of games/learning. My nutshell review of…
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Bit by Bit – Google Office
If you trust in the big “G” here is how to office online: eMail – Gmail Calendar – gCal Word Processing – Writely Spreadsheets – Google Spreadsheets Presentation – Google Pages
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Growing Up Online
Bruce Bower of Science News posted an interesting article just over a month ago that looks the way that kids and teens are using the ‘net as they grow older. I found it while working on a presentation for an undergrad class and our student association about being net savy (pointing out trends in use,…
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Yotophoto
I don’t know if it’s been out there for a while, but working with the 2006 Cohort, one of the students pointed out Yotophoto an open source and creative commons photo site. I’m currently working through video production with them and had mentioned that in a pinch if they or their students didn’t want to…
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Stories don’t all have a start, middle and end
I’ve been doing some work with digital storytelling, and as I’ve commented in the past, I think that any addition of “digital” to a term is largely a marketing or buzzword ploy. What the digital denotes isn’t something that is advanced as it used to, but rather some more democratized workflow. So there are some…