Daily Bookmarks 01/06/2009
January 6, 2009-
» Now You Can Design E-Learning Courses Like a Pro The Rapid eLearning Blog
Showing how you can create interactive e-learning even if PowerPoint is your only available tool, with a demo of a frog dissection created in PowerPoint.
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: The Cellist of the Schoolyard
Story of the cellist of Sarajevo who played in the bombed out shells of neighborhoods. This would be a good story to replace the urban legend about Perlman currently used in our CM course.
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Enter a URL for a blog post and see conversations about it through comments, Twitter, Google blog search, etc.
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Principles for a New Media Literacy
Media literacy principles for consumers and producers. Much of this is about information literacy–learning to be skeptical of sources, learning to filter out the unimportant, watching for credibility, providing accountability, active participation.
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Weblogg-ed » Response to Jay Matthews at the Washington Post
Will Richardson responds to a Washington Post article that calls 21st century skills a “doomed pedagogical fad.”
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With access to the Internet, and with an understanding of how to create and navigate these online, social learning spaces, opportunities for learning widely and deeply reside in the connections that we make with other people who can teach or mentor us and/or collaboarate with us in the learning process. That, I think, is where we find 21st Century skills that are different and important. Sure, those connections require a well developed reading and writing literacy, and critical thinking and creativity and many of the others are skills inherent to the process. But this new potential to learn easily and deeply in environments that are not bounded by physical space or scheduled time constraints requires us as educators to take a hard look at how we are helping our students realize the potentials of those opportunities.
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To me, that’s what 21st Century Skills are all about, teaching our kids to navigate the world as they are experiencing it, not the world we experienced.
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40 Beautiful Free Icon Sets – Six Revisions
Free icons for web design or elearning design. Note that not all can be used for commercial applications–check the individual licenses.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
