Tuesday+afternoon

Tuesday July 28th, 2009

[|Jon Davitt]

The learning score -

ways to use [|Wordle] - large amount of text
 * print out the wordle and give them small amounts and have them work on that.
 * turning wordle into a movie... -
 * print screen
 * paste into photostory
 * or use aduacity to put a voice recording
 * simple 2.0 tools and layer them together.

Entertaining yourself - learning in disguise... Personalization - can't get there until you acknowledge difference
 * there are many paths to get to where we want to go.
 * the computer was originally the difference engine

Some tools to support active learning: - two things that support learning: active learning and to give good formative feedback - Davitt's Delicious - shares his bookmark

Youtube - allows students to show what they know by actively doing something.

learning event generator - 2500 possible learning ideas and a way to do them. - has it as an app for the iphone-

creativity is about freedom - some say - but in reality - it's about constraint as well.

[|http://legwork.pbworks.com] - the wiki that showcases work that's done using the random generator.

The sensory matrix... hear / see. feel/ touch - things get a lot easier to understand when you get to walk, talk and feel your way through learning.

3 main rules of soccer as a 20 second rap -

Flash items - trace content make it move

Quick time pro - lets you create your own content. -www.apple.com/trailers/

Once you own Quicktime pro - you can download movies and edit them.

Igotu - a usb reader - go for a walk - plug it in and google earth it will show you where you went visually. There's an iphone app for that too...t

Learning Event Generator - you can customize this but you need to have the code. - so email him and ask for the code. - or I think it's on the cd? His book is on the cd -