teaching + learning
Instructional video: Doceri on the iPad
This sounded good: how to use an iPad as an interactive whiteboard, using some software called Doceri. I thought, if I watched this, I’d learn what Doceri is and how to use it. Well, I watched 4 minutes of this 7-minute video, and after that time, I was really no wiser as to what Doceri [...]
How (not) to make a video
A video I won’t be imitating any time soon, unless I ever want to put people off. Altho the speaker is facing the camera, he has his eyes closed or looking off-screen much of the time. I don’t get the feeling he is really interested in talking to me. It looks like a self-indulgent rant. [...]
Another short, well-made video
Here is another interesting short video. It is professionally made, and I don’t aspire to make anything this slick – it is not worth my time to learn how to do so. I like the background graphics. Watch for the ones that pop up when Ferguson says “Lehman Brothers”. I prefer a speaker on video [...]
Simple but effective videos
What do you think of this video as a teaching or a marketing tool? I’m looking into creating my own instructional videos. If I could make something like the one above, I’d be happy. Here’s why.
“So you point to a tree and say, ‘See that car?’
Jon Rappoport writes some pretty interesting stuff. Today he came up with something that wraps up in a nutshell a recurring concern I have, like a sore that won’t go away, about “education”: “Education tends to define what is there before a person can experience it on his own.” Here’s the context, but click the [...]
Classrooms of the heart
Recently looked for this in my bookmarks and discovered I hadn’t bookmarked it! So here it is. I watch this for clues as to what Gatto actually did in classrooms, his interaction with his students. He’s rather coy about the details in his books (probably to protect the innocent), and this is a good resource [...]
Austrian Economics and teaching
A teacher who obviously enjoys his work, talks about teaching and Austrian economics.
Is Being an Entrepreneur in Your DNA? | LinkedIn
Would you believe it? A college finds that college courses are useful and necessary. Who’d a thunk? Is the Pope Catholic? Is being an entrepreneur in your DNA, or can it be taught? A new study from Babson College finds the evidence is “overwhelming” that if business students take at least two core entrepreneurship [...]
Helen Blofield leaves her worldly possessions to road paver who cared for her… cutting her globe-trotting granddaughter out | Mail Online
Life imitates art: A former airline executive has been cut out of her grandmother’s will because she left everything to a former neighbour who helped her during her final years, a court has heard. via Helen Blofield leaves her worldly possessions to road paver who cared for her… cutting her globe-trotting granddaughter out | Mail [...]
“Hours of idleness”
Pop quiz: how old would you say the writer of the following lines was? In submitting to the public eye the following collection, I have not only to combat the difficulties that writers of verse generally encounter, but may incur the charge of presumption for obtruding myself on the world, when, without doubt, I might [...]
