Presence and Engagement
April 3rd, 2013 by Graham Attwell
Great video, found thanks to Mr T. The video looks at the role of the teacher in creating and sustaining a learning community, developing presence and fostering engahement.
Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
Learning through Gangnam
March 21st, 2013 by Jenny Hughes
Thought you may like to see this vid of pupils at Ysgol Gyfyn Gartholwg, featured on the Taccle2 website. The school is the local Welsh medium comprehensive school for Pontydysgu’s home town of Pontypridd.
The children are speaking in Welsh and I’m not going to translate it all but the theme of the video is about the need for good punctuation and accuracy of writing.
We love it – and it’s an excellent example of what kids can do left alone with a video camera and some editing software. E-learning at its best. We are hoping to feature YG Gartholwg in the future and use them as a test bed for more Taccle2 ideas – watch this space.
Meanwhile, many thanks to staff and pupils – Da iawn chi! Diolch yn fawr.
Open Government
March 20th, 2013 by Graham Attwell
This is a great video – presumably made using prezy – from the UK Open Government website, established as a hub to support civil society engagement with the Open Government Partnership in the UK. . I am also a great fan of teh Open Data movement. But I think there are some limitations. Just making government or data about government open will not, on its own, overcome the class based inequalities in income and power within society.
3rd Millennium Learning In Cardiff
February 25th, 2013 by Graham Attwell
Schools are increasingly using ,multi media. NAACE have released their Third Millennium Learning Award: the school Award videos with links to the videos which are the Award submissions from schools that have gained the Award and the Feature School submissions. These are the Award submissions that they feel show particularly well what 3rd millennium learning is and what kind of learning experience pupils are having schools that have developed what they call 3rd Millennium learning well.
With so many videos to choose from it was ahrd – so of course we decided to feature a school from Wales, Ysgol Gymraeg Pwll Coch from Cardiff.
Rock School
January 14th, 2013 by Graham Attwell
Very happy to feature another video from our creative friends in south Wales, Like an Egg. They say: “Rock School is a programme we run together with Communities First to teach young people how to write songs, manage sound production and perform. It’s led by our Head of Audio, Alex, who works with the kids, trains them to use our equipment and helps them produce some rocking sounds. Our summer school runs during the summer holidays at our studio in Blaina, Gwent, and we all chip in to make sure they have a brilliant time.
We also run an open drop-in for young people on Thursday evenings – come along and hear the next generation of musicians or catch them at a live performance in the local area and beyond!
Rock School kids say…
“It’s a thing of pure awesomeness.”
“The mentors were great, the experience was great… the whole thing was great.”
“Being in Rock School has given me a lot more confidence in myself.” “
Using web 2.0 and social media in European projects
December 20th, 2012 by Graham Attwell
Graham Attwell, Pontydysgu, UK from Web2LLP on Vimeo.
There is growing interest in how to use social media in European research and development projects. The Web2LLP project aims to improve web strategies and maximise the social media presence of lifelong learning projects. Their web site explains they provide “personalised support and training (a week-long face-to-face course and free webinars), and shares best-practices and resources.”
One of those resources is a video gallery including interviews with project managers who have used social media in European Commision sponsored Lifelong Learning Programme projects.
And when Maria Perifanou asked me for an interview how could I refuse. I talked to Maria about how we used social media in the G8WAY project. The G8WAY project was based on the idea that the growing availability of web 2.0 allows for bridging the present gap between the structures developed to support students in mastering today’s educational transition and their formulation in an institutional perspective through learner centered and connective approaches, with a chance to more effectively manage educational transition. “G8WAY developed web 2.0 enhanced learning environments, to enable learners to reflect and develop their creativity potentials and transitional skills in the light of their own and others’ learning experience, made visible through a variety of media sets and PLE tools, each of them designed to meet the requirements of transition envisaged, and all of which are mapped into one single pedagogy framework.”
We love Sound
November 27th, 2012 by Graham Attwell
We are off to Online Educa Berlin tomorrow, where, amongst other things, we will be presenting three live radio programmes. Yes, here at Pontydysgu, we like sound. And this is Sound” by… SoundCloud! They say “We love sound. Hear from sound experts and friends of SoundCloud why sound is so important to the way we connect with the world.
Economics music
November 27th, 2012 by Graham Attwell
One of a series of fabulous Economics music videos on Youtube by Dorian Electra (via Helen Keegan). This song, released last December, “was created to enter the Supply and Demand Video Contest sponsored by Fayetteville State University’s Hackley Endowment. We are students at Shimer College and Northwestern University.”
Stop Motion on the Beach
November 12th, 2012 by Graham Attwell
Gulp. The world’s largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.
This is a lot of fun. According to the Vimeo blurb: “‘Gulp’ is a short film created by Sumo Science at Aardman, depicting a fisherman going about his daily catch. Shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales, every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot using a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics. The film has broken a world record for the ‘largest stop-motion animation set’, with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet.:
The future of digital games and learning
October 19th, 2012 by Graham Attwell
I like this video of a presentation by Nic Whitton on “What is the Future of Digital Games and Learning?”. Instead of showing her slides or a video of her presentation, the video gives the perspective of the participants on what she is saying. OK – it is a little whimsical. But it opens up all kinds of possibilities on how we might present multiple perspectives on a subject. I wonder if the points that were twittered are the same points she felt most important about her ideas?
Tweet archive from @mhawksey: http://bit.ly/Rq4iuE. Audio: ‘Kaleidoscope’ from Andries available on http://www.dance-industries.com/Andreis/
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Cyborg patented?
Forbes reports that Microsoft has obtained a patent for a “conversational chatbot of a specific person” created from images, recordings, participation in social networks, emails, letters, etc., coupled with the possible generation of a 2D or 3D model of the person.
Racial bias in algorithms
From the UK Open Data Institute’s Week in Data newsletter
This week, Twitter apologised for racial bias within its image-cropping algorithm. The feature is designed to automatically crop images to highlight focal points – including faces. But, Twitter users discovered that, in practice, white faces were focused on, and black faces were cropped out. And, Twitter isn’t the only platform struggling with its algorithm – YouTube has also announced plans to bring back higher levels of human moderation for removing content, after its AI-centred approach resulted in over-censorship, with videos being removed at far higher rates than with human moderators.
Gap between rich and poor university students widest for 12 years
Via The Canary.
The gap between poor students and their more affluent peers attending university has widened to its largest point for 12 years, according to data published by the Department for Education (DfE).
Better-off pupils are significantly more likely to go to university than their more disadvantaged peers. And the gap between the two groups – 18.8 percentage points – is the widest it’s been since 2006/07.
The latest statistics show that 26.3% of pupils eligible for FSMs went on to university in 2018/19, compared with 45.1% of those who did not receive free meals. Only 12.7% of white British males who were eligible for FSMs went to university by the age of 19. The progression rate has fallen slightly for the first time since 2011/12, according to the DfE analysis.
Quality Training
From Raconteur. A recent report by global learning consultancy Kineo examined the learning intentions of 8,000 employees across 13 different industries. It found a huge gap between the quality of training offered and the needs of employees. Of those surveyed, 85 per cent said they , with only 16 per cent of employees finding the learning programmes offered by their employers effective.
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