No Podcast, But How About a Movie?

There will not be an episode of Connect @ 830 this week but in it's place we will have some other multimedia. Let's start with this week's assignment shall we?

This week we were to create a 5-10 picture slide show to convey a story. Here is what I came up with.




We also did some reading in the Eduction for a Digital World. This week we took a look at Social Media for Adult Online Learners and Educators. I thought that the gist of this chapter fell within the lines of it's not the technology itself but how you use it. There are a lot of technologies out there that have been sitting and unused. The example given in the chapter was blogs. Since 1995 web logs were used but it wasn't until 2000 that the tool exploded. Now having the tool, how do you promote usage? There is a difference between adult and children learning. So what is it? Kids tend to learn for the sake of learning. Adults have a lot of variables like time and money and motivation. It will be the usage of proper learning theories to engage the adult learner.

The second chapter was titled "Online Collaboration: An Overview." This chapter basically defined the terms collaboration and cooperation and talked about the differences. It's a matter of sharing material and coming up with ideas that can be changed. I find that a collaboration is much more like something that is evolving. A cooperation is more like a partnership. Since the coined term of "web 2.0" I have found myself collaborating much more without even knowing it. Using tools and websites like facebook and google docs seem already taken for granted. It's just the way we work to make things more efficient. But taking a step back, it's all about collaborating and user created content. It will be interesting to see what the next stage of learning will be.

Since we did a silent slide show this week, I thought I would share something with sound and movement. Here is one of my short films entitled "Faded Reality." See if you can figure out the story and enjoy.



Connect @ 830 will continue next week. See you then!