We can follow John's tools at www.newtools.org
When John feels down, he visits his eBay account to read his positive feedback! He has 100% good feedback ... and says that in all his life to date, this is the most positive assessment he's ever had! On the other hand, are we more interested in shopping than education? There's a danger that we are using new tools for old learning.
Wordle Try pasting in a 'bunch of text' from a news website - provides an overview and a sense of what is important in that article. Or a suggestion from the floor, you could put the contents of your presentation into Wordle to see if you are getting your point across!
You could print screen the Wordle image and save it, then open PhotoStory and create some motion animation ie fade from small to large.
Barcodes are coming ... QR codes and Microsoft TAG iPods with eyes etc. If your phone has a camera, it will read the code ... this will take you to a website. Codes are a way of labelling environments and can be generated. I generated this one for my Teachnet UK website.
John had codes for a lunar landing mission [Apollo 11] pinned on trees in Boston Gardens!
Mobile mission games can be found at GPS Mission Designer
Learning Event Generator and the Homework Generator ... to generate very different tasks. See this wiki for some ideas on how these are being used!
Scratch from MIT
See this YouTube video about Twitter, in plain English!
- Encourage ebb and flow of things in the virtual and real worlds
- Every school its own NBC? Lid, zone it
- Embrace the age of 'adhocracy' ... look at the professional development on one screen
- Walk many paths .. invent the 10 cent curriculum
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