This video describes why I believe technology is so important in our schools. Technology prepares students for lives in the future. It also engages students. Students expect to be engaged in this way.
Education Today and Tomorrowshareski2 min 30 sec - Sep 20, 2006This video was created by Tom Woodward of Henrico County schools in Virginia. Tom used the work of Karl Fisch from Colorado who created a PPT using various quotes and statistics from "flat world" thinking. Used with permission
Did You Know 2.0 - An updated version of Did You Know? (a.k.a. Shift Happens). See http://tinyurl.com/2mbgnx for more info. Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, XPLANE
This video is a parody of the song "Wouldn't it Be Loverly" from My Fair Lady. Mrs. Barringer and her fifth graders team up with the art teacher to dream about how love-a-ly it would be to have all the technology Interwrite can supply. One of Tricia Fugelstad's wonderfully engaging videos.
Excellent overview of good and bad techiques for using powerpoint. Worth going over these principles to work out what it is we should be getting our students to us PPT for.
... in teaching. Why youtube? because it is a symbol of user-centeredness and of the democratisation of knowledge. Youtube is a part of the WEB 2.0 which ...