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Excerpt: The wonderful thing about my job is that I have a network of people I can visit who are involved with prototyping the use of new technologies in education. My latest outing was to a Junior School with a difference this week. Peter Barrett, an old colleague of mine, had told me about the seed of this idea some months back. Knowing Peter I guessed it would be quite ambitious. We have worked on a number of innovation projects in the past and he never fails to surprise me… As well as the school going through a massive rebuilding programme, they have…
What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod touch each?
September 17, 2009
in advisory, Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Handheld Learning, informal learning, Innovation, KS2, Learning Content, Learning Tools, mobile, mobile learning, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, Primary, Web 2.0
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Giving ICT CPD for E-Safety in Second Life
September 13, 2009
in Adult Learning, advisory, AST, Continual Professional Development, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, Innovation, LA, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, Second Life, training, Uncategorized
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Excerpt: In this interview I talk with Carol Rainbow about how she has managed to evolve ICT CPD for E-Safety inside Second Life. Carol is an ICT consultant for Oxfordshire and is probably the only person in the UK who is using Second Life to deliver CPD at school Local Authority level in this way. A lot of corporate firms spend some considerable time building elaborate ‘orientation’ areas to provide solutions for staff training. Carol, however, concentrates on building a community of practice from the start inside Second Life. Teachers’ log in from their own homes and the training sessions are held later in…
Educators in Virtual Worlds on Open Sim – the pioneers…
September 10, 2009
in Adult Learning, advisory, BSF, Continual Professional Development, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, informal learning, Innovation, Learning Content, Learning Tools, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, Moodle, MUVE, open source, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, Scottish Learning Festival, Second Life, sloodle, Uncategorized, video, video streaming, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0
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Excerpt: WHY VIRTUAL WORLDS – WHY NOW? Image attribution Chealion on Flickr under this CC licence This series of posts is intended to be a comprehensive look at the use and development of Virtual Worlds on Open Source technologies in Schools. It is to be the basis for a book I am writing to be released early next year on Lulu about Virtual Worlds, Open Source and Education. Over the last six months, through a series of interviews with people from around the globe, I have been mapping out some of the major developments in this field. The trouble is that presently, technological advances…
Out of our tree … are we weird or are we in the vanguard? New ways forward for teacher Continuing Professional Development? Beyond TeachMeet…
September 3, 2009
in advisory, blogging, conferences, Continual Professional Development, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, informal learning, Innovation
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Excerpt: LEARNING SPACES Why would I choose to live video stream and film a group of people who got together at the last minute in a tree house in Regents Park to discuss the future of educational CPD? The idea, at first, seems bordering on the eccentric. The venue for this discussion was more something out of Second Life than the real world. The Treehouse Gallery public Art project in Regents Park generously gave us time and space to devote to this meeting about ICT CPD for the 21st Century and Drew Buddie suggested it would be the perfect venue for…
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