At Brightworks, we believe that a school should serve as a learning commons and a community workshop; an intellectual and creative heart of the neighborhood it resides in. Brightworks will also offer after-school, evening and weekend workshops for children and adults.
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Open resources and improving education: A panel discussion with five open education leaders :: MacLearning.org ::
Open Education is often described as a movement aiming to improve access, quality, and usability of education content, and ultimately the experience of formal and informal learning. Carolina Rossini, Vijay Kumar, Cable Green, Nicole Allen, and David Wiley bring their unique perspectives and experiences to this online panel discussing a range of important Open Education Resources topics from access to sustainability to quality.
Computer as Material: Messing About with Time
–Take note this was written in 1988
Computers began in education with a charismatic aura that cannot remain characteristic of their long-term presence. As they become part of the everyday toolbox that kids can dig into, will they have any special value?
YouTube – Bloom’s Taxonomy According to Pirates of the Caribbean
The Brainstormer – The Art of Andrew Bosley
A nice little creative writing (or whatever) prompt generator.
Gamification Encyclopedia – Game Mechanics Resource | Gamification – Gamification.org
Gamification is the concept that you can apply the basic elements that make games fun and engaging to things that typically aren’t considered a game.
Examples are Frequent Flyer Programs, Wii Fit, Badges in Foursquare, etc. We believe Gamification is one of the largest movements and trends of our time and fundamentally changes the way we live and interact with everything around us. The possible applications of game dynamics are nearly infinite with many believing that gamification will impact everything from the web to education, health, social good and even work.
We created the Gamification Wiki to accelerate the acceptance of Gamification, to help educate the world and to push the concept to the next level by creating the largest repository of information on the subject.
Welcome to the open online course on Learning & Knowledge Analytics | Learning and Knowledge Analytics
Learning & Knowledge Analytics 2011 – LAK11 – is an open course that will be offered from January 10 – February 20, 2011. LAK11 serves as an introduction to the growing field of analytics in teaching, learning, training, development, and organizational knowledge.
LAK11 will address the following topics:
Week 1 (Jan 10-16): Introduction to Learning and Knowledge Analytics
Week 2 (Jan 17-23): Rise of “Big Data” and Data Scientists
Week 3 (Jan 24-30): Semantic Web, Linked Data, & Intelligent Curriculum
Week 4 (Jan 31-Feb 6): Visualization: Tools for, and examples of, Analytics
Week 5 (Feb 7-13): Organizational implementation
Week 6 (Feb 14-20): What’s next for Learning & Knowledge Analytics?
Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes in Google or Anywhere Else – WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress plugins, themes, news and help – WPMU.org
Argleton: A story of maps, maths and motorways by Suw Charman-Anderson — Kickstarter
A really interesting idea and kickstarter might be a way for some of you to get interesting things funded.
Walking on Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age on Vimeo
“”Walking on Eggshells” is a 24-minute documentary about appropriation, creative influence, re-use and intellectual property in the remix age. It is a conversation among various musicians, visual artists, writers and lawyers, all sharing their views on why and how we use and create culture, and how intellectual property law, originally designed to provide people with incentives to create, sometimes hinders creative production far more than it enhances it.”