Although no one’s actually challenged me yet I’ve often felt I should be ready to answer questions about whether digital storytelling is too insubstantial to be a worthwhile academic or personal development activity. How, after all, can you say anything
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Open Conference 2010: Video Interviews
June 16, 2010 - Site of the Week -
Martin Weller’s blog, The Ed Techie, was the first technology blog that I followed and he’s a constant stream of intrestingness. His latest post is really valuable for anyone interested in ed-tech generally, but also open educational models specifically. He has done interviews with a number of OU luminaries (Martin Bean, Grainne Conole, Andrew Law and Simon Buckinham-Shum) on the questions of the benefits of technology for learning and interesting issues around openness.
Thru YOU – YouTube eats itself…
March 11, 2009 - Site of the Week -
Kutiman, Ophir Kutiel, an Israeli musician has scoured YouTube for music/video samples of all those amateur videos of people playing instruments or singing and mashed them up into a heavenly mix of…well go and listen.
Fliggo – Make your own YouTube
March 2, 2009 - Site of the Week -
Fliggo allows you to set up your own video sharing site for free. You can then control who has access, who can upload and comment etc.
Periodic Table of Elements on Youtube
August 22, 2008 - Uncategorized -
…Nottingham Uni have very helpfully put up a load of videos onto Youtube showing the properties of the 118 elements in the periodic table. I’ve had a wee look and they seem OK to a non-scientist (qualified as a geography
Do schools kill creativity?
March 19, 2009 - Comment - By: ChrisA wee comment on Sir Ken Robinson’s excellent talk a while ago on creativity and education.