open thinking

This is a great example of a teacher using technology to have some fun with his students in his pre-Halloween class. It was made for a Nature of Math class at Biola University by Matthew Weathers, October 28, 2009.

Great job, Matthew.

I gave a keynote today at Canada’s MoodleMoot ‘09 in Edmonton, Alberta. Below are the slides and a list of some key links. The talk was given to about 300 in-house delegates and about 80 online (via Elluminate). I will share the recording once/if I get access.

Relevant links in order of appearance:
- Wordle: Make “beautiful” word clouds.
- Networked Teacher: Diagram via Flickr.
- Twitter: Dominant microblogging tool.
- EC&I 831: My open graduate course.
- Open Doctrine: Alec’s own attack ad.
- Network Sherpa: Diagram via Flickr.
- Cathedral and the Bazaar: by Eric S. Raymond.
- The Fifty Tools: by Alan Levine.
- Ustream.tv: Free web streaming.
- Omegle: Talk to strangers.
- Twitter Search via Google: Firefox/GreaseMonkey script to get live Twitter results via Google search.
- Amherst College IT Index: Tracks technologies brought in by students.
- “RiP: A Remix Manifesto“: Excellent open source film on remix/mashup culture.
- An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube: Excellent presentation by Dr. Michael Wesch.
- David After the Dentist: My blog post on this viral video.
- The Show: Ze Frank’s one-year long series feat. “if the earth was a sandwich project“.
- Postsecret: Collaborative art project, people sharing their deepest secrets.
- Amateur: Creative video by Lasse Gjertzen.
- Thru-you: An amazing set of tracks that were created by mashing up youtube videos.
- Grad course trailer: Trailer for EC&I 831.
- Thinning the walls: Visualization of networked teaching.

Update: The Elluminate recording is now available here.

The Edtech Posse recorded the latest, extremely raw, podcast in the ambiance that is Winston’s Pub in Saskatoon. What did we talk about? I guess you’ll have to listen to find out.

Voices include: Myself, Rob Wall, Rick Schwier, Dean Shareski, Clarence Fisher, Kyle Lichtenwald, Kathy Cassidy, Dean Loberg … several others (sorry if I missed you, please let me know).

 

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This is wonderful, award-winning video.

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves.

This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of ‘405′. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.

This really is an amazing mashup, one of the best I’ve ever seen.

What you are about to see is a mix of unrelated Youtube videos/clips edited together to create ThruYou. In other words, what you see is what you hear. (Source)

Beautiful!