I have had a productive morning following up on some links in my PLN alerts.
Whilst looking at a range of resources provided by Google, I found this 2010 introduction to a personal learning network. It is a five minute video shared by ThinkFiz via Google Sites.
Today’s Cowbird story, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, is written by Michelle Johnson. It helped me think about how we share stories and how these stories can become a focus of problem-based learning opportunities. A post by Jackie Gerstein, Providing Opportunities for learners to Tell Their Stories, gave me more food for thought.
I was particularly interested in Jackie’s link to Small Talks “a new website (under development) that provides educators with resources to assist students in researching, writing and recording their own lectures on subjects they’re passionate about”. I followed up Jackie’s discussion of story-telling with a read of her post from last year, Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture for Higher Education.
My next find was a report of Connected Learning. The report:
advocates for broadened access to learning that is socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward educational, economic, or political opportunity. Connected learning is realized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and interest to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement. This model is based on evidence that the most resilient, adaptive, and effective learning involves individual interest as well as social support to overcome adversity and provide recognition.
One way of connecting is through video. I have been looking at Google Hangouts as one option for connecting small communities of practice. A few days ago I found Keek (“a new kind of social network. It’s the easiest way to share video updates with friends. You can upload video status updates (“keeks”) using your webcam or the Keek app for Android and iPhone“).
Via Paper.Li this morning I found Peter Csathy’s post, Instagram for Video. I followed up on two of his links:
Peter has six requirements of an Instogram for Video service:
- Easy-to-use HD video capture
- Apple-like user experience: seamless integration with the video capture device and one-click filters, effects, private/public sharing
- Immediate untethered fast file uploading to the cloud
- Optimized cloud transcoding
- Intuitive video content management from the device itself and any connected device
- Intelligent and secure delivery/playback
On my journey today I came across two fascinating sites that were particularly engaging: Jesse Chapman and Tina Roth Eisenberg. Tina led me to Barry McGee with another kind of a story … and thoughts about re-presentation.
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barry_mcgee_mural_11 (Douglas LeMoine, CC BY-ND 2.0)
