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Smart technologies will take the classroom into the world

July 26th, 2010 by Graham Attwell
Web 3.0: The way forward?

This presentation by Steve Wheeler has been causing some comments around the edubloggers networks. George Siemens responded saying “The development of the semantic web, linked data, and open data, coupled with location-awareness, recommender systems, augmented reality, data overlays, and similar developments is having a dramatic impact on how people interact with information and each other”.

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Newport

July 21st, 2010 by Graham Attwell

What can I say. Hailing from Pontypridd we at Pontydysgu are always proud to promote all things Welsh – yes even Newport. Great stuff – hope you enjoy it.

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Designing Learning Spaces

July 21st, 2010 by Graham Attwell

Shaping Space: The d.school’s Environments Collaborative from Stanford d.school on Vimeo.

There are some great ideas emerging about how we can design learning spaces. this makes even more criminal the UK CONDEM government’s decision to abolish the school rebuilding programme, condemning thousands of teachers and learners to struggling in old, inadequate and frequently run down buildings totally unsuited to learning.

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The Crisis of Capitalism animated

July 1st, 2010 by Graham Attwell


This is brilliant.I found it on the Bravatuesdays web site. As edupunk pin-up boy Jim Groom says “This is a remarkable talk, and once again David Harvey nails it. What’s more, the RSA animation crew make the talk that much more powerful and entertaining—there’s really a there there with this kind of visualization.”

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Open Source is important

July 1st, 2010 by Graham Attwell


The Opencast community is a collaboration of individuals, higher education institutions and organizations working together to explore, develop, define and document best practices and technologies for management of audiovisual content in academia. The community has recently announced release of Matterhorn, a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. This video resents Insights on the Opencast Community, how it has enabled them to build and learn together, it’s role as an incubator for research and new projects, and how the Opencast Community can be a force for change.

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PLE2010 MediaCast Contest

June 25th, 2010 by Graham Attwell


With twelve days to go the the PLE2010 Conference in Barcelona, Pontydysgu is going to be featuring  some of the events being organised around the conference> Voting is now open for the Mediacast competition: a celebration of User Generated Content with awards for the best three mediacast productions on Personal Learning Environments. You can vote by joining the the YouTube group for the PLE conference at http://www.youtube.com/group/PLE2010CONF.

This video is by Jane Challinor from Nottingham University in the UK.

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Story telling on video

June 17th, 2010 by Graham Attwell


I love this video. As the blurb says “A video short of over 30 peoples views on what it means to be co-operative. Produced for Co-operatives Fortnight 2010 “There is an alternative”. www.thereisanalternative.coop.”

Firstly it is heartening to see any other economic models than multi national corporations taking everything over. But I also love the way the producer has used short clips of ‘talking heads’ shots to tell the story of co-operatives. Great storyboarding – now I am thinking how we can emulate this approach.

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Defining Personal Learning Environments

June 8th, 2010 by Graham Attwell
Definitions of Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
View more presentations from Ilona Buchem.

Interesting and timely presentation by Ilone Buchem for thePLE2010 conference in Barcelona in July.

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Warning – may cause addiction!

May 31st, 2010 by Graham Attwell


Great promo video made by Anuraj Dadhich who is presently undertaking an internship with Pontydysgu and the University of Bremen. The YouTube blurb says “The mind blowing promo of AlcherXtreme, IIT Guwahati’s cultural festival.  …. Caution: May cause Addiction.”

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My Best Teacher

May 31st, 2010 by Graham Attwell


Despite the ever growing access to multi media technologies and the popularity of video sharing sites, I am finding it hard to track down great videos to feature on the front page of the Pontydysgu site. Anyway, this one somehow came up in a search and I like it very much. It is a bit short on information – the caption to the video by alirizaaribas says — “THIS IS ONLY FOR MY BEST TEACHER.”

If you have ideas for presentations or videos you think we should feature – your own or other peoples – please get in touch.

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What motivates learning?

May 14th, 2010 by Jo Turner-Attwell

I found this video on Cool Infographics which is always worth looking at for interesting videos and data representations. It is an illustration of a presentation by Dan Pink created by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. The video discusses research on what motivates people, and provides some interesting results.

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Flowers are Red

May 4th, 2010 by Graham Attwell


The original version of this song was written and sung by Harry Chapin. Wikipedia explains ”

The song tells the story of a little boy who on the first day of school started drawing pictures of flowers using many different colors. The teacher tells him that he’s coloring the flowers all wrong and that he should paint them red and green, “the way they always have been seen.” The boy disagrees and continues to color them from his imagination until the teacher punishes him by standing him in a corner. Finally, the little boy gives in and tells the teacher that “flowers are red, and green leaves are green.” When he goes to a different school, he continues mechanically painting flowers red and green, to the dismay of his new, kind teacher.

In the live concert versions, Chapin extended the song’s ending to: “There still must be a way to have our children say…” before featuring the little boy’s chorus again and bringing the song to a better conclusion. A version of this is featured on his album Legends of the Lost and Found.”

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Are you a global learner?

April 29th, 2010 by Graham Attwell


I am a great admirer of the work Andreas Auwarter is doing incorporating the creation of new media in his teaching. Here is a video his students made yesterday. Andreas says: “This question raised up during a discussion inside the AG Podcasting. Students themselves felt as creators as well as story-tellers. They felt as producers. and they felt as learners. But how feels it to be a global learner? What are the scares? What are the fears? What are the expectations, challenges? We want to know it!”

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