Hayrick's Blog Explorations » Edutech http://explorations.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org blog Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:38:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Commonwealth of Learning – Education for a Digital World http://explorations.edublogs.org/2009/09/03/commonwealth-of-learning-education-for-a-digital-world/ http://explorations.edublogs.org/2009/09/03/commonwealth-of-learning-education-for-a-digital-world/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:28:21 +0000 rickdude http://explorations.edublogs.org/2009/09/03/commonwealth-of-learning-education-for-a-digital-world/ I neglected to mention this when it came out, but here's a link to Education for a Digital World, the book from Commonwealth of Learning that I was involved with, coauthoring 3 chapters and acting as a contributing editor.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. And here is my (still very short) list of edutech-related books.

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It seems kind of weird to just pull a whole presentation written by someone else into my blog, but it's really convenient to have it here, and the attribution information is included, so I guess there's nothing untoward. I remember that Slideshare used to allow links to specific slides but that seems to have disappeared now. Perhaps whole presentations is the way to go, as you get to see everything in its original context.

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Reading is very useful for learning English. Many teachers and researchers say that reading lots of English books is the best way to improve your English.slide1

Mmm. That was a little experiment in setting up a workflow for students to try enhanced podcasting. The basic idea is that you need to get a set of pictures, with a set of corresponding audio files, and upload them to somewhere whence they can be pulled in as needed, such as the Internet Archive. You make a new post for each chapter of the podcast episode, including a bit of text, one image, and one audio file.

The problem, as you can see, is that WordPress doesn't seem to be able to read the audio file properly. So until I can work out what's going wrong, I'll be using Podomatic with the same workflow.

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