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.
By rob
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.
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Roo’s been great at posting the audio and some visuals from last week’s panel session where I moderated on how organisations could and should harness the ‘Facebook generation’. He had quite possibly the best quote of the week: “World of Warcraft is the new golf”, courtesy of Joi Ito.
You can see and hear Roo’s excellent presentation on virtual worlds and how he and others have been using them at IBM, listen to my 20-minute rant on how we should harness the Bebo Boomers in our organisations instead of having them make the coffee and Mary Ellen gives a wonderful overview of the importance of playing instead of training (her slides are here). It’s worth tuning in, too, to the panel Q&A that had been conducted both on Twitter, the blog and F2F.
You can also listen to my presentation in the Connected Live audio player, right here:
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.
Andrew Brown, one of Learning and Teaching Scotland new technologies team, has already blogged about the potential of the wee EeePC, and here takes us on a tour of this brilliant new machine. You can also see some of the photos of this machine, compared to some of its larger computer cousins.
Inserting some of these into a classroom won’t be an easy task, with plenty to think about in terms of connectivity as well as culture.
You can view the video on the Connected Live Blip.TV channel, and embed it into your own blog, or view below:
In this video snippet see how some principals and headteachers-to-be are learning the skills on the job.
You can view this video below or by visiting the Connected Live Blip.TV Channel.
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.
You can view this video below or by visiting the Blip.TV Connected Live Channel.
The keynotes for the Scottish Learning Festival have been made available now in a version that will play on your video iPod or MP4 player.
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:
Gigajam, available to all Scottish teachers and learners through Glow, provides exciting new ways to learn how to play musical instruments. See the video for the highlights of this new technology.
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.
See more about this podcast or listen to other shows on Connected Live’s podcast page. Or, you can listen by clicking the play button below.
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