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Little Boxes

May 21st, 2008 by Graham Attwell

Jen writes “Graham – I think your blog should have a space for a ‘sponsored vid of the week’. This is mine for next week.” For me, this song by the great Pete Seeger is the ultimate comment on our education systems – and wonderful slides to go with it.

McLuhan – the man who invented the idea of the web

May 6th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

I spent an evening last week with Jenny Hughes gathering together a selection of videos for the front page slot on this site for the next six or so weeks. And we have some great videos for you. If you have any ideas of a video we should feature please email me or leave a comment. But please do watch this one. As Jenny says”If Berners Lee invented the enabling technology, this was the guy who invented the idea!”

Mayday Greetings

April 30th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

We had a long search for a suitable May Day greetings video. Jen and me did not finally agree. Anyway this is her choice. I will post my choice on the Wales Wide Web tomorrow. May Day greetings to you all.
Great music from Tom Robinson and brilliant graphics from RedClydeside.

Earthday

April 22nd, 2008 by Graham Attwell

Pontydysgu is proud to support the brilliant Earthday initiative.

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The new industrial revolution

April 14th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

Key for me about understanding the changing ways in which we are teaching and learning is the deep seated changes going on in our societies. I talked about this in a presentation in Pesaro in Italy. And Jens Vermeersch captured my ramblings on a digital camera. Thanks Jens for this short video clip.

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

March 21st, 2008 by Graham Attwell

YouTube is becoming a great resource for tecahing and learning. Over the next few months I’m going to feature some of my favourites in this spot. This video was made by bjnesbitt who says “This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so.”

Rich surveys

March 11th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

First in a new series of short vidcasts (is that the right word?). In this one I talk about the idea of ‘rich surveys’. Puzzled? What to know more? Just watch the video. It is about 5 minutes long.

(Schools out). Personal Learning Environments – what they are and why they might be useful.

January 14th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

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Terry Friedman is planning to publish a new version of the popular Coming of Age book.

And along with Leon Cych, he is planning a 24 hour telethon in which the contributors to Coming of Age are “on” for up to 20 minutes, either talking about their contribution or being interviewed about. I thought I would produce a short video (or slidecast) for the occasion. And by short I meant short. I always set out with good intentions but they always end up 25 minutes or more. I am proud of myself. This one is 6 minutes and I think it gets the key ideas across.

If you don’t like cartoon strips or prefer reading to watching a video or just want to find out more, you can download my contribution to the book below.

Coming of Age 2.0

Learning and Knowledge Maturing

January 5th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

I’m doing a presentation on Tuesday on Learning and Knowledge Maturing. It is a bit of a mash up – some older slides from me plus some slides from Steven Downes. And it comes with full audio – I used slidecast for the first time. So trun up your speakers and press the green button (warning – about 20 minutes long). A longer post about making this will follow.

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Web 2.0, social software and Personal Learning Environments

December 2nd, 2007 by Graham Attwell

Thanks to all of you for your kind comments about my keynote presentation at Online Educa Berlin. Here are the slides from the presentation. Coming soon – the video and two papers – one in English and one in German explaining the key ideas on which the presentation was based.

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