Defining Personal Learning Environments
June 8th, 2010 by Graham Attwell
Interesting and timely presentation by Ilone Buchem for thePLE2010 conference in Barcelona in July.
Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning
Archive for the ‘Multimedia’ Category
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.”
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.
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.
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.”
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!”
How much do you know about Politics?
April 27th, 2010 by Jo Turner-Attwell
In May I will be voting for the first time in the UK elections. This means I have spent large amounts of time researching and discussing the different parties and what they have to offer and I am finding it extremely hard to differentiate between the parties. In discussions with other voters my own age I became very aware what little experience many of us have in politics and within my own experience, aside from the influence of parents, guidance in making this decision for the first time is minimal.
This video from the Yahoo election page shows the extent to which this lack of knowledge can extend and was a real eye opener for me.
I believe learning about Politics is something that should be embedded somewhere within standard curriculums in the education system to avoid this sort of ignorance.
Pontydysgu is currently working on a European project called POLITICS which hopes to increase knowledge of Politics on both a national and European scale.
‘The POLITICS project is built around an e-book “Straight into Politics”. Learners will be invited to form (transnational) teams online and develop a digital and humorous story based on the scenario of a politically active young person who is convinced they can change the world for the better and organizes a election campaign.’
If you’d like to know more about this project this can be found out on the project website at http://www.politics-project.eu/index.htm.
Working and Learning
April 21st, 2010 by Jo Turner-Attwell
icould is a collection of videos where people talk about their career paths. It provides a diverse selection of stories from people of all ages and backgrounds and is an inspirational way to explore career possibilities.
I was browsing the icould videos and saw a tag to search by age. This videos was one of those thrown up. It caught my interest mainly because it made such a strong connection to work experience and the value of learning and working at the same time. These are two things that throughout my time with Pontydysgu I have held in increasing regard.
In my opinion two weeks of work experience in Year 10, in the English compulsory education system, isn’t enough. This video I felt went some of the way to showing why.
The State of The Internet
April 7th, 2010 by Jo Turner-Attwell
I found this video JESS3 / The State of The Internet on Cool Infographics and loved it. It was embedded originally from Vimeo by JESS3. In addition to providing some really interesting statistics, it was the dynamic way of presenting them that particularly held my attention. Definitely worth watching.
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
Using Web 2.0 for research
April 7th, 2010 by Graham Attwell
Researching In A Web 2 0 World (for lawyers)
View more presentations from Emily Allbon.
Forget the title – this is a great introduction by Emily Albion to using web 2.0 for research for any research area.
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The ECER 2010 Conference
ECER 2010, “Education and Cultural Change”, takes place in Helsinki, 23 – 27 August.
Cultural change has emerged as an important issue in most European countries due to increased migration. With regard to education in Europe, culture is often perceived as referring mostly to ethnicity, religion and language, though cultural diversity also refers to race, gender, class, age, ability and sexual orientation.
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Videos, interviews, podcasts and reports from the ECER 2009 Conference in Vienna end of September.
In our Multimedia section here!.
Taccle handbook for teachers order form
Here you find the Taccle handbook for teachers order form.
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