http://ourmedia.org/user/157985 Recently published media items from Ourmedia.org en http://ourmedia.org/node/415948 Part two of a screencast modeling the writing of a timed AP Literature literary analysis essay by talking through the writing decisions as the essay visually unfolds in real time. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:54:08 -0700 Clay Burell http://ourmedia.org/node/415623 A student in Korea interviews "Education for Well-Being" founder Bill Farren in the Dominican Republic about sustainability in schools, in education, and in life. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:27:20 -0700 Patrick Nam http://ourmedia.org/node/415468 What walls don?t come down in this hour-long talk? Bye-bye edu-caste system, bye-bye geographic and temporal barriers. My guests are from three continents and four levels of school hierarchy: * High School Principal Noel Thomas, Toorak College, Melbourne, Australia * High School Principal (and next year?s Director) Rich Boerner, Korea International School, Seoul, South Korea (my employer) * Librarian Jenny Luca, Toorak College, Melbourne * Lara H., high school student, Toorak College * Lindsea Kemp-Wilber, Punahou High School student (and Students 2.o staff writer), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA * and me, high school teacher and tool-guy, formerly of Korea International School Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:40:54 -0700 Clay Burell http://ourmedia.org/node/415464 My guest for this podcast is Dean Shareski, instructor of a 21st Century Education class at University of Regina, Canada, and Technology Coordinator of the Saskatchewan School District. This wide-ranging talk focuses primarily on creating _natural_ global collaboration for students, project-based and student-designed, in order to get away from the one-size-fits-all model informing most globally collaborative projects. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:53:02 -0700 Clay Burell collaboration constructivism education flat classroom project-based learning Skype Twitter http://ourmedia.org/node/415467 Here in Korea on a Friday night, close to midnight, I hop onto Twitter, see Chris Craft is there in South Carolina, USA, and tweet him an invitation to talk on Skype. He kindly obliges (and it's just a free international computer phone call now, so that ain't hard). I record it, edit it, and an hour later, self-publish it for anybody in the world who is interested in lessons learned from two humble pioneers of global classroom collaboration. Our topic? We take up the question of how to refine our approach to global collaborative projects so that they are less prone to fail, or to wear out all parties involved (teachers and students) when they succeed. I'm most excited by the last 5 minutes or so. Chris and I fell into a spontaneous "pedagogical jam session" in which we riffed on the idea that the best projects are - not projects at all*. Instead, they are authentic uses - and modelings - of Personal Learning Networks (PLN's) via Twitter, Skype, Facebook, etc: "quick in and quick out." Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:23:58 -0700 Clay Burell education flat classroom global collaboration personal learning networks podcast social networking http://ourmedia.org/node/415466 Here’s another Skype conference call, “quick-in, quick-out,” with people who simply answered a Twitter invitation from me here in Seoul, Korea, to discuss ways to make my Personal Learning Network / Communication Arts English Seminar better. Most of the conversation is with Corrie Bergeron of Cleveland, Ohio - “educator, husband, father, musician, aviation nut” - and a very smart man, with whom I’ve never spoken before submitting a one-line tweet to my Twitter network. He’s interested in this class, and took 40 minutes to discuss it with me instantly. Other people in my Twitter network came in later: George Mayo of Maryland, USA; Jabiz Raisdana, an international school teacher in Doha, Qatar; and Madeline Brownstone, a teacher and New York City National Writing Project advisor. I’ve talked to George a couple of times, but this was the first voice-to-voice with Jabiz and Madeline. Let me spell a couple things out: Twitter, Skype, and this blog have very quickly combined into an instant-meeting medium for me to learn from people around the world who are interested in helping me succeed at what I’m trying to do in my own project-based learning - which just happens to be about using the new tools to allow students to learn in new ways. This podcast is at once a datum of and a discussion about Personal Learning Networks. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:10:12 -0700 Clay Burell constructivism education networks pln project-based learning Skype Twitter http://ourmedia.org/node/415321 This is a powerful way to model adult writing for students: screencasting my own "mock exam" reading of a poem - while talking through my thoughts as I read it - and then composing my own essay about that poem, talking through my writer's choices as I write the essay - all of which the students can watch and hear as it happens.It's as close to being inside the mind and eyes of a reading and writing adult as a student will ever get. In three parts, I read, plan, and write the essay from start to finish, under the same timed conditions as students in AP Literature timed exams. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:16:30 -0700 http://ourmedia.org/node/415310 (Part 3 of 3. Part 1 here; Part 2 here.) This is a powerful way to model adult writing for students: screencasting my own "mock exam" reading of a poem - while talking through my thoughts as I read it - and then composing my own essay about that poem, talking through my writer's choices as I write the essay - all of which the students can watch and hear as it happens. It's as close to being inside the mind and eyes of a reading and writing adult as a student will ever get. In three parts, I read, plan, and write the essay from start to finish, under the same timed conditions as students in AP Literature timed exams. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:02:34 -0700 http://ourmedia.org/node/415312 Part 2 of 3. See Part 1 here.This is a powerful way to model adult writing for students: screencasting my own "mock exam" reading of a poem - while talking through my thoughts as I read it - and then composing my own essay about that poem, talking through my writer's choices as I write the essay - all of which the students can watch and hear as it happens. It's as close to being inside the mind and eyes of a reading and writing adult as a student will ever get. In three parts, I read, plan, and write the essay from start to finish, under the same timed conditions as students in AP Literature timed exams. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:06:26 -0700 http://ourmedia.org/node/415309 As the title suggests, this one addresses the connectivity afforded by Technorati, and walks viewers through creating a Technorati account, claiming a blog, linking to the Technorati blog page, and so forth. It also discusses Technorati authority, rankings, and other minutiae.  Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:01:10 -0700 http://ourmedia.org/node/415320 this podcast is of a true story from my own 3 years of being bullied daily in high school. It doesn’t address the bullies so much as the bullied. Its aim is to give some hope for the long-term. It’s 30 minutes long, and actually full of classroom laughs along the way. Share it with that student who might need it. See full post for more. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:16:28 -0700 Clay Burell http://ourmedia.org/node/413593 Part 3 of 3: An essayist uses screencasting to model the thoughts of a writer through speak-alouds, while students watch the essay being written in real time. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:57:29 -0700 Clay Burell academic education howto lesson literature Poetry Tutorial Writing