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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Education - australian screen
Education - australian screen: " Developed by Curriculum Corporation through The Le@rning Federation, the education collection is designed to help teachers and students make the most of the wide range of moving image resources on the site. The clips in this collection are accompanied by teachers’ notes created by specialist curriculum writers. Expert curators’ notes also provide useful background material."
Dust Echoes: Ancient Stories, New Voices
Dust Echoes: Ancient Stories, New Voices
Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law. Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law. (ABC Web site)
Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law. Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law. (ABC Web site)
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Community Engagement
Indigenous people have creative ways of encouraging students to be engaged in learning. At the Group Schools Conference remote Indigenous staff inspired each other with student engagement stories. They worked in language groups which is a powerful source of knowledge transmission as the answers are grow internally rather than imposed from above.
This Indigenous voice is highlighted in the Strategies for teaching Indigenous Students in Central Australia
This Indigenous voice is highlighted in the Strategies for teaching Indigenous Students in Central Australia
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Online FLV Converter : Download Online Videos direct to PC, iPod, PSP, iPhone, Mobile etc.Convert videos to .wmv, .mp4, .3gp, .mov, .mp3, .flv etc.Flv
Online FLV Converter : Download Online Videos direct to PC, iPod, PSP, iPhone, Mobile etc.Convert videos to .wmv, .mp4, .3gp, .mov, .mp3, .flv etc.Flv , Flvplayer, Flv video,
This is one way to make sure you can use some of the great video resources that are blocked at school. Copy the URL of the movie you like, put it into the 'converter' site and download the converted version.
This is one way to make sure you can use some of the great video resources that are blocked at school. Copy the URL of the movie you like, put it into the 'converter' site and download the converted version.
Monday, August 13, 2007
D-Film
Dvolver is a fun web based program to make cartoon animations.
Click the link to access an example D-Film
To create your own movie go to Dvolver MovieMaker
Teaching our learners how to learn
Tony Buzan, bestselling author on improving memory and brain power, argues that schools should change the way they teach children in order to increase creativity.
In this video of a lecture to an audience of teachers, Tony Buzan, the man credited with creating the 'Mind Map', explains how schools are depriving children of their innate ability to think creatively.
Tony suggests that creativity declines in people as they go through the education system. He argues that the key to stopping this is to teach children how to learn and think at the same time as they are being taught the basics. Tony believes the focus of education should shift from teaching what people need to learn to teaching people how to learn.
This video is from Teachers TV , a site hosting thousands of educational videos.
In this video of a lecture to an audience of teachers, Tony Buzan, the man credited with creating the 'Mind Map', explains how schools are depriving children of their innate ability to think creatively.
Tony suggests that creativity declines in people as they go through the education system. He argues that the key to stopping this is to teach children how to learn and think at the same time as they are being taught the basics. Tony believes the focus of education should shift from teaching what people need to learn to teaching people how to learn.
This video is from Teachers TV , a site hosting thousands of educational videos.
Using aggregators to manage online content
Wondering how to manage all the new information that is published on the web each day?
This is a tutorial presented by a teacher from New Zealand on how to use Bloglines, del.icio.us and iTunes to manage and source web content that you are interested in
This is a tutorial presented by a teacher from New Zealand on how to use Bloglines, del.icio.us and iTunes to manage and source web content that you are interested in
Wikis and how to use them
Wikis are are a great way of coordinating and collaborating on line. This video provides an excellent basic introduction to using wikis.
This video is located on TeacherTube. TeacherTube was launched earlier this year to provide a way of sharing educationally focused online content in venue safe for teachers, students and home learners.
This video is located on TeacherTube. TeacherTube was launched earlier this year to provide a way of sharing educationally focused online content in venue safe for teachers, students and home learners.
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize -- much less cultivate -- the talents of many brilliant people. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. A typical review: "If you have not yet seen Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk, please stop whatever you're doing and watch it now."
TED Talks Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (video)
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It's Mission - spreading good ideas.
The annual conference brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
The TED site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 100 talks from their archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.
TED Talks Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (video)
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It's Mission - spreading good ideas.
The annual conference brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
The TED site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 100 talks from their archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.
A glimpse of the future?
Did you know is a wonderful, concise video that helps raise awareness of the issues of globalization in our newly connected world, first raised in Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat. Karl Fisch remixed content from David Warlick, Thomas Friedman, Ian Jukes, Ray Kurzweil and others, added some music, and came up with the following presentation.
When I Grow Up...
This short, simple and powerful video considers what the world will be like for our students. Are we preparing them? An alternative way to express this might be:
'a video that looks at what the world IS like for our students - are WE prepared?'
This video is located on TeacherTube. TeacherTube was launched earlier this year to provide a way of sharing educationally focused online content in venue safe for teachers, students and home learners.
'a video that looks at what the world IS like for our students - are WE prepared?'
This video is located on TeacherTube. TeacherTube was launched earlier this year to provide a way of sharing educationally focused online content in venue safe for teachers, students and home learners.
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