From the serious to the light-hearted… videos on all aspects of life in UCD are being posted on YouTube… student interviews designed to encourage school leavers to study at UCD, Professor Bairbre Redmond introducing social science, experts on the UCD faculty talking about subjects ranging from climate change to nanoscience.
Student videos are on sports, UCDVO in Haiti, L&H debates, socialising and more. My favourite is from a fellow cyclist – a video shot from his? bike while cycling from Terenure to Belfield
The EdTech 2008 conference presentations have been published on the ILTA web site. They are divided into three strands practitioner, research and postgraduate with the bulk of the presentations (29 out of 45) being practitioner papers. Being one of the organisers I did not have time to blog at the conference but I can recall the highlights – the best probably being Larry McNutt’s keynote presentation An exploration of the habitus of educational technologists: What does the research tell us? where he explored the beliefs and values of educational technologists.
Practitioner presentations covered topics ranging from podcasting to screencasting, reflection to assessment, communities of practice to e-twinning and learning organisations to learning objects.
Gorka Palazio, a participant from the Basque region of Spain, recorded his experiences on video…
A video created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University shows what he considers to be some of the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime.