Two New Zealand teachers show me how they have created a Second Life universe in which their students can work, learn and play. View below, or on the Connected Live video site.
Last December I had the privilege of presenting some notions around the ‘Bebo Boomer’ at the Online Information Conference, the largest information professional conference in the world. I’ve got around to publishing this crammed 20 minutes of ideas, where I wanted to see if business and public service organisations were prepared to harness the basic skills of youngsters entering the workplace to create more innovation and better communications.
My co-presenters on the panel that day, Roo Reynolds and Mary Ellen Bates, sandwiched me in a way that made it look like we had conceived and carefully woven the whole hour together: Roo on the intricacies of virtual worlds in the workplace, then me on how young people entering the workplace could see their skills better harnessed, then Mary Ellen on the importance of play and gaming.
Roo carries the audio from the all three mini-presentations (including his Slideshare) and the discussion that followed, after I curated comments from Twitter, this blog and mobile phone SMSs. After much bullying from Roo (;-) here is the full presentation, slides, audio and laughter, from my intervention that day, or you can just listen to the audio below.
We’d like to know more about how people use the Learning and Teaching Scotland websites, including Connected Live, and what improvements we could make.
It should only take about five minutes to complete. And if you leave your name and email address at the end, you’ll go into the prize draw to win a 4GB iPod Nano.
The Asus EeePC is a tiny, open source and highly affordable wireless laptop computer, no bigger than a paperback, which could open new possibilities for learning in Scottish classrooms.
At September’s Scottish Learning Festival there are visitors from around the world. The next few podcasts reveal what international guests get out of the programme, and here an Australian representative points out that there are many similarities between the Scottish and Australian ways of doing things.
It’s a great way to revisit the rich resource that each keynote address provides. You can right-click (or ctrl-click on a Mac) each of the links below to download these to your computer, and drag them to your iPod or into iTunes:
Ewan McIntosh, National Advisor for Learning and Technology Futures, chats about why he attended SLF07, what he gained from the event and his hopes for the progression of Scottish Education over the next five years.