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This video has been produced by Pontydysgu and friends as our entry for the Alt-C2008 Digital Slam competition. We discussed the idea over skype and then each recorded our own part of the soundtrack. The text is from Wikipedia entries about the Digital Divide. We wanted to bring music and pictures togather to explore the multi faceted and often contradictory phenonomon of the digital divide. And we wanted to bring voices and pictures together from different countries and cultures. We had orginally intended to include Greek language in the mash but found that there is no Digital Divide entry in the Greek version of Wikipedia. We will write one.

Anyway hope you enjoy it.

Words - Graham Attwell, Cristina Costa, Dirk Stieglitz and Maria Perifanou.
Music - Break Rise Blowing by Countdown.
Text - Wikipedia
Pictures - Abrilon, Lisachaos, Maebmij, ninnet, AnantaB (all Creative Commons, Flickr)
Production - Dirk Stieglitz

I have always fun “wandering around” in YouTube and find interesting things. In some cases its new or like here older stuff but still very funny and not only funny I really enjoyed the argument in this small vid.
It makes me remembering talking and discussing with different people is always important: I learn something new or get new views into a problem or it helps me “finishing” a thought or getting the arguments into proper order by explaining and defending my position and work with the critique.
So have fun with this a bit off-topic debate.

My Avatar Me - a great animation created by Steven Warburton. Soundtrack: Winds of Change by Jap Jap.

I spent an evening last week with Jenny Hughes gathering together a selection of videos for the front page slot on this site for the next six or so weeks. And we have some great videos for you. If you have any ideas of a video we should feature please email me or leave a comment. But please do watch this one. As Jenny says”If Berners Lee invented the enabling technology, this was the guy who invented the idea!”

Pontydysgu is proud to support the brilliant Earthday initiative.

Key for me about understanding the changing ways in which we are teaching and learning is the deep seated changes going on in our societies. I talked about this in a presentation in Pesaro in Italy. And Jens Vermeersch captured my ramblings on a digital camera. Thanks Jens for this short video clip.

YouTube is becoming a great resource for tecahing and learning. Over the next few months I’m going to feature some of my favourites in this spot. This video was made by bjnesbitt who says “This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so.”

First in a new series of short vidcasts (is that the right word?). In this one I talk about the idea of ‘rich surveys’. Puzzled? What to know more? Just watch the video. It is about 5 minutes long.

Whilst at Online Educa Berlin, I was interviewed by colleagues from the Swedish Learning Space on the future of e-learning. I visited their stand later. amongst the usual frenzy of commercial stands, all desperately trying to sell bits of technology which looked depressingly alike, it was a pleasure to find thoughtful people willing to spend time discussing ideas.

Anyway you can watch the video on the Swedish Learning Space web site.

A presentation by Graham Attwell of Pontydysgu on E-portfolio Development and Implementation. Technical Mixing by Einion Dafydd.