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E-Learning: 21st Century Perspectives on Teaching, Learning, and Technology

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Get Into Games 2009

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Hydropower: Not As Clean as You Think | International Rivers

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Fallout 3, Jagex Win Big At The Golden Joysticks

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The Future Of Education [Publication]

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The Future Of Education [Publication]

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Tool Kit Brown Paper

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The Need for a new form of education ...

"The pace of change and the evolving demands of customers are such that firms can no longer depend only on internal capabilities to meet external needs. Nor can they depend only on tightly coupled relationships with a handful of business partners to keep up with customer desires for speed, innovation, and control. Instead, firms must engage and cocreate in a dynamic fashion with everyone - partners, competitors, educators, government and most of all customers. To innovate and succeed, the new mass collaboration must become part of every leader's playbook and lexicon. Learning how to engage and cocreate with a shifting set of self-organised partners is becoming an essential skill, as important as budgeting, R&D and planning."
Tapscott and Williams Wikinomics (2007)

Embryonic Animation

As well as getting creative with web design I've also been trying out some animation with Goanimate! an online animation tool. It's very simple to use and even lets you upload your own images and content to use in your animations. My six year old daughter help me make the first animation below, while I did the second one all on my own.

GoAnimate.com: Love Rabbits by douglasgreig


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

GoAnimate.com: Naturally Hazardous by douglasgreig


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

Getting to grips with Website Design

I have been playing around with Weebly for about a week now, and have managed to make a couple. I have enjoyed the chance to blend different media together, to store and share information and to potentially get feedback from people. I am also very aware of how it has challenged and pushed my own creativity which is something I'm now excited about getting to grips with some students later in the autumn.

Check out my efforts at:

tallisa2geography.weebly.com/index.html

tallisa2units.weebly.com/index.html

douglasgreig.weebly.com/index.html

The accessibility and intuitive interface in Weebly has really opened up my understanding of the potential of Web 2.0 applications and how they allow those with little expertise to begin to work with some very complex processes such as animation, web design, digital avatars and video compilation.

Fun with Digital Avatars

Digital Identity

One of the first projects we're going to get students thinking about is how to create their own digital domain and what they include in this to communicate their identity. This will necessitate reflecting on themselves as learners both individually and as a community, as well as developing some harder skills in using new technologies to communicate what they think and understand. So, how do we get them to think about themselves, and what kind of digital identity should the begin with? How important is it to reflect on what not to include in any online identity?


The goal is to start small and cultivate new skills and understanding, because from small acorns big oak trees grow.

I am very new to blogging and not entirely sure how it is going to work, but I do like the fact you can include photographs, text and other media to communicate what you think and understand. I am going to use this as a way of thinking back and considering what I've been learning. I've been messing around with photos for a speech I have to give as a best man, and here's something I've russled up related to ... well beans.