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Show Your Media Literacy

Nice idea…

In celebration of Media Awareness Week (November 2-6, 2009) we are encouraging students, teachers, and the general public to create videos, digital stories, text, images or any digital media that showcases the different ways they are Media Literate. To get things started, we have created a video that is hosted here on our YouTube [...]

October 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Media Literacy | Leave a comment

An introduction to connectivism

Networked Student

The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler’s high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros’ Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers will use it to help their [...]

September 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: 21st Century Learning, Social Media | Leave a comment

Digital Lunch

When I’m not being a Teaching Assistant or Learning Mentor I fill my ’spare’ time as a Lunchtime Supervisor. Now this gives me some real freedom in the classroom. I share my lunchtime with my Year 5 class and I got thinking that during this time we have a real opportunity to try some things [...]

September 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Web 2.0 and Your Own Learning and Development

Came across this video by Stephen Downes after reading an interesting essay he wrote;

September 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Personal Learning Network (PLN) | 3 comments