Copyright and the wheres, whens and hows of it all can be a minefield for both educators and learners. Allow a student to use something under NEALS - and it cannot be displayed on the internet. Create a video and use the wrong music — and have it pulled or edited.
Creative Commons offers […]
Screen Australia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are putting out a serious challenge to subject matter experts, designers, documentary film makers, screenwriters, web developers and game programmers to produce a “serious game”.
The reason? “Games provide a powerful opportunity to communicate with a broad,contemporary audience.”
At the first cut, they are looking for game ideas that address […]
3 December 2008 – 8:14 pm
Normally I save the nuts and bolts stuff for my http://kerryj.com blog, but I’ve been bubbling over about this to colleagues so I’ll post it here instead.
I’m a big believer in spreading content around the web — so will continue to nag everyone in my organisation to post videos to edna Groups, YouTube, TeacherTube, Flickr, […]
2 December 2008 – 1:10 pm
Yay for the new US President-elect’s web site advisory team! And an onya to the New Media Consortium here in Australia. Both are using Creative Commons licensing to de-mystify the uses to which the materials they produce can be used by the public.
The NMC’s newly released Australia-New Zealand regional version of the Horizon Report […]
5 October 2008 – 11:15 am
In January I blogged about Flickr Commons — a program whereby Flickr invites cultural institutions to share their library of photos and invite the public to tag them.
Now, the State Library of NSW is the first Australian library to join in.
The curators have selected one hundred photos that they feel capture “quirky and momentous historical […]
11 September 2008 – 12:39 pm
Do you consciously use colour on your web site, digital stories, print designs or in other areas of your life to express mood, feeling and context?
The site Cymbolism - http://www.cymbolism.com/ - is attempting to provide guidance on which colours to use to express emotion and moode by providing a tool where visitors can read a […]
8 September 2008 – 11:26 am
Just finished watching an outstanding presentation by a project-based learning team from Parramatta Marist Brothers’ college.
The 4-week project focused on local environmental issues and the group I saw did outstanding research on several environmental issues.
The teachers involved set up a ning group - http://greenup2145.ning.com and then the students got to work.
Their research was used to […]
11 August 2008 – 12:40 pm
Do your students know who you are and what motivates you? Do you know who your students are and what motivates them? And would sharing a bit of yourselves make you a more effective educator and them more effective learners?
These questions are behind a new project being fired up by a passionate educator named Lauren […]
Flickr, the online photo sharing site owned by Yahoo! is going to be running what I think is an amazing online project on 8 August 2008.
During the 24-hour period that is 8 August 2008 wherever you are, they are inviting Flickr users to submit 1 photo about their day to a special Flickr group. Flickr […]
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here is a 60-second video that demonstrates one of the major strengths of vritual worlds -the sense of immersion and shared experience.
Last night edna workshop participants from Canada, New Zealand and the US got the chance to jam out and create music together and then share some […]
