Great videos about innovation and creativity: Part 1

Here follows a selection of videos I found particularly interesting dealing with ideas, innovation, creativity and the learning process.

Google:

Creativity Loves Constraint

Google:
The Founding of Google

Google:
Google Culture: Encouraging Innovation


Google:
Give Ideas Credit, Not Credit for Ideas


Google:
Encouraging Creativity

Inspirational books that have changed the way I think...

My wife always gets annoyed with the amount of books I buy. When I started teaching about eight years ago my reading quickly diminished as guilt came upon me every time I picked up a good piece of fiction - 'I could be doing some work!'. Eventually I realised that reading non-fiction both stimulated my curiosity and creativity whilst easing the pang of guilt associated with 'wasting time'. However, this has led to me buying a lot of books...but hey, reading keeps you thinking!

I have read and re-read all of these books more than once (well not the last one as that's a blatant plug..)

• A Whole New Mind
• Presentation Zen
• Made to Stick
• Ten Faces of Innovation
• Innovate with ICT

Development of a new learning tool

I have been working for some time now on a new tool for the Interactive White Board and it is looking good and almost complete. It involves a set of 5 (possibly 6 haven't decided yet) parts which enables teachers to create interactive activities and save these as Adobe Flash files (Flash Player 10 required) to upload to websites, local networks, Learning Platforms, Blogs or just add to USB memory to use whenever or wherever you need.

I have always found the IWB limited in terms of interactability and therefore wanted to create a product which would aid teachers delivery of lessons and students learning.

The final update will be posted here when it's finally completed : ) !

Johannes

21 Good links from Twitter

Here follows 21 useful links I posted on Twitter :

1. 21st Century Skills website, very comprehensive with great links and discussions http://snipr.com/kg3p5
2. Love this T-shirt website,such an innovative idea to use things from within films rather than just the cover poster: http://short.to/gi5i
3. Looks like this could be an interesting book on teaching History: Constructing History 11-19, http://is.gd/16lQz
4. Create tension with exam groups using video clips http://short.to/gi54
5. Book: 100 Ideas for Essential Teaching Skills http://is.gd/16lu8
6. Book: Innovate with ICT http://short.to/gitf
7. Download resources for Assessment for Learning http://is.gd/16lzK
8. New Fronter tutorial: How to Embed Video or Learning Games, http://is.gd/16jnt
9. Handheld Learning conference 5-7th October London: http://snipr.com/kg2c7 . Ok, I'm there.
10. New Fronter tutorial: How to upload resources and link them to text http://snipr.com/kg1nl
11. Very comprehensive list of tools to boost your Twitter following indeed (via @TheAffiliateGuy) http://ow.ly/aaXj
12. Open Source Schools 2009 Unconference (BECTA supported). Looks very interesting. http://snipr.com/kg1ts
13. Futurelab conference, 8 October 2009, Seen and Heard: Young people creating digital media http://is.gd/16l0V . Penciled into calendar : ) .
14. The 16th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, Manchester September 2009: http://snipr.com/kg22d
15. Really looking forward to SHP 2009 #education #shp.We have uploaded our past workshops here http://short.to/ghpi
16. How to embed Flash in ActiveStudio 3: http://short.to/ghpg
17. Mobile learning technology #education . Create quizzes for for mobile phones: http://snipr.com/kfq98
18. MFL resource for french grammar: http://is.gd/16aVR
19. The evolution of WEB 1.0 and WEB 2.0. Very cool: http://is.gd/16aSd
20. Create a Welcome Page in Fronter: http://www.innovativeict.net/fronter-learning-platform
21. Interesting. 10 Ways to increase your Twitter followers http://tinyurl.com/cs6nkv

New Tutorials for the Fronter Learning Platform

Part 1: Create a Welcome Page

This tutorial will show you how simple it is to use Fronter. The first step is to create a Front Page which can link to other Front Pages and this tutorial will show you how images and internal links can achieve that.



Part 2 :Upload resources

This tutorial will show you the ease which resources such as movies, documents and presentations can be addded to your Learning Platform.




Part 3 :Embed videos and learning games into Fronter VLE

This tutorial will demonstrate how to embed videos from Youtube.com as well as learning games from other websites e.g. www.classgamesden.com. For more tutorials please visit www.innovativeICT.net

Digital ethnography: the Development of the World Wide Web

Came a cross this fantastic video on Twitter posted by moTik.