LearnShifting

 When I talk about creating I think of the various media formats of sound, video, photos, artwork, animation and words. After many years of doing this work I still think that animation is the most time consuming and photography is the least time consuming providing the subject is available.

Before we start creating anything, we have to know why we are doing it, who we are doing it for and most importantly what we are doing.

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This entry was posted on June 23, 2011 at 6:47 AM and has received 328 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

Microsoft are running a number of sessions nationally each Tuesday, starting 3^rd May, on the following topics. This is being done through live meeting.

This entry was posted on April 20, 2011 at 1:00 PM and has received 335 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Another great tip from Sally, a passionate teacher. The Northern Territory Library server has provided an online tutoring system for free for students. It is available 3 - 8 pm, Monday to Friday and you can go there online by visiting https://connect.yourtutor.com.au/default.aspx?GUID=ac00ff9c-bd60-46e3-9458-bb3969c73abe. There is a short explanatory video which will explain the service available at http://yourtutor.com.au/walkthrough/library/yourtutor.htm. Even though in the video it suggests that you need to enter your library card number, I didn't have to when I tried it yesterday.

So how good is that? You pick the subject, year level and your student, son or daughter gets a second way of explaining things which might resonate a little more with the child or even the novelty of having a teacher online might push them further.

This made me think of using our own extensive video conferencing solutions to deliver a breakfast session once a week using Adobe Connect or OCS. I would pick one of the 23 items I want to teach my son and present a 15 minute starter presentation and take any questions for the next 15 minutes. The time I am proposing is 6:30am to 7:00 for those wanting to view from home (you'll need ADSL 2 and live close enough to school not to miss the first bell), or 7:15 -7:45am. This would be once a week on the least maddest day of the week. Let me know if you think this is worthwhile and the topics are the ones I posted in this previous post

This entry was posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:54 AM and has received 417 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.

We (being a whole bunch of people in education) attended a conference last week which was lead not only by our informed peers and interstate and international experts, but also by some of our customers… the students we teach.

Being a conference about technology, I don’t really need to go through the events as you can check out the conference tweets by going to http://twitter.com and typing in #ltl2011 into the search box at the top of the page.

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This entry was posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:23 AM and has received 575 views. There are currently 2 comments. Print this entry.

There are three things (which means I will probably write about five things) about YouTube I would like to share with you. The first is a challenge...

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This entry was posted on December 30, 2010 at 3:44 PM and has received 378 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.

 I try not to cross-post from my other blogs but having just returned from a wonderful holiday to Singapore, Malaysia and a brief stopover in Bali I combined a little road testing of the iPad again in a travel/holiday environment.

anyhow the link to the article and a YouTube video shot, edited and uploaded to YouTube without going near a laptop, desktop or netbook is included.

The movie of this is continued at the blog...

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This entry was posted on December 22, 2010 at 10:47 PM and has received 309 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

I received a request from a teacher the other day who wanted to upskill in the area of information technology. "Where do you start?" She asked. Surrounded by people who strum keyboards and use applications like a conductor with their orchestra, creating documents here, extracting information there - it must be head spinning to look at that and also have to listen to people rabbiting on about web 2.0, wikis, blogs, facebooks, youtube and iThis and iThat.

It reminds me of when I purchased my first computer - and if you click on the player at the bottom of this entry there is a little audio story about what went wrong that fateful day.

Back on topic... What do you suggest to get someone started with something that is good, fast and cheap (free is even better)

We have courses on offer that provide a formal qualification and can be, in some cases studied externally, these courses are great, but they take time and depending on your budget are not that cheap - they are good value for money though.

So I dug through the kit bag and came up with two suggestions... We could come up with 20 suggestions and I hope you add some via the comments button at the bottom.

read on to find out what mine were...

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This entry was posted on August 10, 2010 at 12:00 AM and has received 304 views. There are currently 3 comments. Print this entry. Download attachment.

Take a look at the picture and can you relate it to your audience and how you prepare your content for delivery? There will be twenty variations of this matrix but when I stumble across these I tend to try and see:

1. is it relevant to what I do?
2. does it have a story or knowledge I might use?
3. how do my practices measure up in the application of this framework?

This entry was posted on June 8, 2010 at 4:12 AM and has received 235 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.