Archive for June, 2012

Digital storytelling in the classroom

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

See on Scoop.it – Learning Technology When students create a movie or interactive slide show to tell their story, learning becomes personal. Students can improve their writing, show creativity, and have a voice. See on www.microsoft.com

Artificial Intelligence Versus Collective Intelligence

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

See on Scoop.it – Augmented Collective Intelligence A short slideshow about the difference between artificial and augmented intelligence and the “glacial pace of AI” compared to the web. Also to consider: AI + CI (Google’s PageRank, for example) — Howard     See on www.ibiblio.org

Lessons in blogging (and tweeting) from Samuel Pepys

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

See on Scoop.it – Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age Justin Ellis: “Phil Gyford talks about what he learned about writing, tweeting, and context from his just ended, nearly decade-long recreation of the famous diarist’s work“… See on www.niemanlab.org

D10: How Education Will Change In the Digital Age

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

See on Scoop.it – A New Society, a new education! An interesting session at the All Things D conference featured Stanford University President John Hennessy and Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy. They discussed how the digital era could help lower the exorbitant costs of higher education. See on forwardthinking.pcmag.com

ThinkFree Mobile: Show – presentation program and PDF viewer

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

See on Scoop.it – Digital presentations in education Elegant presentation tool simple to use on Tablet screen. Also available for Android. See on mobile.thinkfree.com

17 Free YouTube Tools Every Teacher should Know about

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

See on Scoop.it – New Web 2.0 tools for education ouTube is undoubtedly the top video website online. The stats I have recently read are really amazing; 60 hours of video are uploaded every minute with over 3 billion pageviews per day. It also has thousands of channels ranging from technology to Laugh and Gags. […]

Connectivism: Connecting with George Siemens.pdf

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

See on Scoop.it – Connectivism Project created by some colleagues in my doctoral program at Athabasca University. See on auspace.athabascau.ca

Add Speaking Animated Characters To PowerPoint Slides With SitePal

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

See on Scoop.it – Digital presentations in education SitePal is a web service and MS PowerPoint add-in that allows creating, customizing and adding (speaking) animated characters to your website or presentations. This can help you narrate text from your website or presentation to grab the attention of your audience with a talking avatar… See on www.free-power-point-templates.com

Add Speaking Animated Characters To PowerPoint Slides With SitePal

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

See on Scoop.it – Digital presentations in education SitePal is a web service and MS PowerPoint add-in that allows creating, customizing and adding (speaking) animated characters to your website or presentations. This can help you narrate text from your website or presentation to grab the attention of your audience with a talking avatar… See on www.free-power-point-templates.com

Secret Location Combines Gaming, Interactivity, and Telephony With Mysterious Film “The Sevens”

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

See on Scoop.it – Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age Rae Ann Fera: “Toronto-based interactive agency uses a multi-layered narrative experience to test the limits of where technology meets story” … See on www.fastcocreate.com