learning with technology

The video was produced five years ago. A lot of friends are now teachers. A problem-based approach video covers a lof of technical issues in video production.

Last night, a friend who is a primary school teacher, asked me what is Facebook. When I wanted to explain to her, my F3 son started to talk about. I never know he knows Facebook. At the same time, my son then told me he can classify all his teachers into three categories. 1. Speak all the time, do not like student talk and discuss 2. Like to ask questions, or telling jokes, however, most of time talking by oneself and don't let students answer. And the jokes are in fact not so good. 3. Really engage students to talk and discuss. Interesting.

I always say that Podcasting is far more complicated than expected. Here is an article written by a teacher telling his experience of creating Podcasting. Reading through the lines, you will find that it is challanging and interesting to create your own Podcasting, however, Hong Kong teachers might find it complicated. Is there any more easy way to make it? http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196605453

Web2.0 becomes a jargon now. Everyone is talking about Web2.0, Web3.0 is even coming. No matter what webN.0 (N>2) is coming, I find this website is an excellent introduction of web2.0. All the basic concepts and their application in teaching and learning are shown. The paper is called " Web2.0: From curious to competent ".

Many people heard of YouTube, how about TeacherTube? It looks very similar to YouTube except it was created by a lot of teachers. You can also upload the video for sharing and making comment. However, you need to declare the video is for teaching and learning purpose only and copyright free. It is more safe to view TeacherTube in classroom. Here is a video from TeacherTube. It is a quick look about a street in Nanjing, with the viewpoint from Western people. They descirbed this as a teaching material in school.

There is a lot of freeware that can support collaborative drawing of Mind map. Bubbl.us is one of the most simple concept map drawing that can support multiple users. Hers is a drawing produced with bubbl.us .

The concept of Podcasting is easy to understand but far more difficult to implement, produce and publish. For receiving Podcasting materials, the most easy way is to downloand itune from http://www.apple.com/itunes/ and then you can subscribe a lot of interesting podcasting materials, such as CNN, BBC and other Pop songs. Some are free and some are marked with price for subscription. However, if you want to produce your own Podcasting station and for others to subscribe. You need to have some basic knowledge in audio recording, mixing and podcasting. Audacity (http://audacity.sf.net)is a easy-to-use and powerful freeware for audio recording and mixing. After producing your mp3, you need to upload the mp3 to a server and then you can make use of itune to podcast your mp3. The logistis is simple but difficult to a lot of beginners.