by kris | Jul 15, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Embed Resources & Tools, Learning Community, Understanding Media
Cable news has been the standard for breaking news until recently when FaceBook and Twitter started offering live video streaming. This article from the New York Times suggests a new role for video in helping viewers better understand what the video means. Sounds...
by kris | Jul 15, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Capturing Imagination, Learning Community
See this teacher’s opinion about the new mobile app game, Pokemon Go, based on the original Game Boy series. I will download the app to explore how the new app is causing both collaboration and interaction with media using a smartphone app. PSA supports...
by andflywrite | Jul 15, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
Clayton Christensen is a well known theorist and teacher about disruptive innovation, which is sort of an economist’s followup to Toffler’s ideas of future shock. IOW, Clayton is trying to help equip us to understand the change of our time. He has a non...
by andflywrite | Jul 15, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
PSA colleague Ed Lappin sometimes works with animated video using CGI. Often he uses the ability of certain “virtual reality worlds” such as Second Life, and others, to provide the 3D environment for his animated characters. Such work is a close relative...
by andflywrite | Jul 15, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
When PSA interviewed Dr. “Ogi” Alozie from Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in El Paso, one of his “hats” was “Chief Medical Informatics Officer”. It turns out that’s a way of describing a nexus of various tech and...
by andflywrite | Jul 14, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
A free, mostly-OER platform (see below for why it’s “mostly OER”), Amazon Inspire works like a search engine for educational videos, lesson plans and games. Users can search by criteria like topics (say, “fractions” or “the Constitution”), standards, grade level, and...
