PowerPoint & Pecha Kucha

Might be a useful approach for future teaching and learning materials hence inclusion here... PowerPoint - e-learning, blended-learning, multimedia, PowerPoint.

Second Life as a partial answer?

If you've read the posts about the videos below (students holding up signs etc to convey impressions of how education isn't working for them) then is educational engagement via Second Life a partial answer? Well, maybe, but only partial. But here is a short positive video on just this issue. Go Go Joe!

A Vision of Students Today?

This is a great video.



It uses some simple techniques to effectively convey its message in a far more effective way than some dense written text or even another (yet another) PowerPoint show. Definitely worth watching. I've seen the technique on a few other videos over the years but Bob Dylan (video for Subterranean Homesick Blues) and Seether (video for Fine Again) are the best examples.

Credited to Digital Ethnography @ Kansas State University.

A First Class Ticket to Dottingham?

(The title of this post and first paragraph also appear on the Internet, Computers & Society module blog but I didn't think the second paragraph was relevant to the students.)

There used to be an advert for Tunes (I think) where a man with a heavy cold cannot make himself heard to the person at the railway ticket counter. If anyone is watching these demo clips then you'll hopefully realise that I made one batch while I was full of cold. So I sound a bit odd but it also means I wasn't very focussed on the materials. So they're a little waffly but they're only demos so that's okay.

All part of the process of being a reflective practitioner. You plod along at times, soar along at others, try things out, get feedback, consider it (accept/reject the feedback?)and repeat the process... Is this the wheel of progress or the treadmill of despair? Some days it can seem like both!