Here it is, my second effort after “Why teach technology?” into the TeacherTube zone of inspiring teachers to investigate the Pandora’s box that is Web 2.0.
I was culling my folder entitled “Web discussions” where I store past posts and bits and pieces I’ve cut and pasted for use later on. I came across the words included in me second video presentation; I think I got them off Durff’s Blog, if it wasn’t from there it was someone similarly thoughtful, observant and insightful, but it sounds like Durff to me. Anyway here it is entitled: “School 1.0 v School 2.0 “On your marks…””
Teaching Sagittarian will laugh at me as I still am unable to embed my own videos and Miguel of Around the Corner will no doubt roll his eyes at me as, yes, I used PhotoStory3 yet again. I’m not sure this presentation is going to give Vicki Davies the ‘chills’ like last time, but them I feel this is more of a Die Hard 2 moment rather then a Godfather II. What do you think?
Download: School 1.0 v School 2.0 “On your marks…”
Teaching Sagittarian check this out, I DID IT! (Thanks to the new embed feature for WordPress on TeacherTube )
You know when you add another blog to your feeder you get about 10 older posts…. Well I did that for dangerouslyirrelevant and came across this great question.
In my most humble opinion: the answer is of course not!
The answer I fear is a little more complicated in terms of the institutional nature of education. We have a much more flexible system here in New Zealand than other countries we could blog about.
My Question to New Zealand is, What are we doing to address the above mentioned question in light of the fact that we have so much more governance at the school level? What a huge responsibility to place on the shoulders of Principals and senior management without the ‘Green Light’ from the Ministry.
A brave school it would be that placed ICT litracy front and centre.
Miguel Guhlin invited me into a Skype call he was having this afternoon (night- his time) with a guy called 
Kevin. As I was brought up to date with what the conversation was about, it intrigued me: Kevin is heading up a not-for-profit organisation which seeks to promote the education of young people about the native wildlife of
New Zealand. As the conversation progressed we debated the value of ‘broadcast’ method of presentation against establishing a wiki/ blog inviting interest and collaboration from teachers and students. Although his target audience was year 12/13 I could still see the remarkable possibilities of such a project for my year 3’s. Currently there is a website associated with the project and I hope it will give something of a flavour despite them being somewhat out-of-date as Kevin claimed.
If you have a moment, take a look, but look out for the sound effects, have your volume turned up nice and loud.
Kevin also manages www.cmag.org.nz
Well it’s just hit midnight and I’ve finished a Skype IM with Miguel Guhlin. He managed to ‘talk’ me through converting my .wmv file to a .avi probably with his eyes popping out. Poor guy, sorry to keep you up so late.
Here are the couple of programmes he advised me on:
http://www.ipod-video-converter.org/free-ipod-video-converter.exe
http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter
Little old me, my video being played in
San Antonio…. Kind of gives me goose bumps. (That is if Miguel Guhlin will forgive me for spelling his name wrong on the Blogroll- How embarrassing)
Something else I learnt tonight, how to send a file through Skype. Above the IM messages is a toolbar, the second from the left reads ‘send file’ it’ll let you browse and then once you click away it goes. Easy.
The last thing it got me thinking about was my Skype name. what’s the point of having a name which noone can recognise. Therefore I have changed my Skype name to Dragon09 which some people may recognise, it’s makes a little more sense at least.
Here is my response to Vicki’s question ‘Why teach technology?’ It’s my first go at 
uploading to Teachertube. Technology teaching is the equipping of students today for the environment tomorrow. Yes, the future is unclear but if they leave us armed with the tools, shortcuts, and critical thinking skills then they will be prepared for a lifetime of learning and change.
Ps. I wish someone would teach me how to embed vodcast and podcast into my blog. I look like such a newbie, but I just can’t figure it out.
