Creating Immersive Learning Environments
What does it mean to be well-educated?
What does best practice mean to you?
General Embedding
Embedding anything in your Web site (advanced)
Resources:
Audio
Gcast: phone podcasting
Avatars
Voki: create your own talking avatar
Bookmarks
Chat
Documents
Scribd: post multiple document formats
File Storage
Google:
Google Docs includes Google Presentation | Google Spreadsheets
Imagery
Flickr: 3 Billion images
Mind-mapping
Multimedia
Flowgram: combine multiple resources together.
Presentations
Slideshare: repository of presentations, most typically PowerPoint
Live streams from cell phones.
RSS Feeds
Add information streams
Screen capture
Slide Shows
Timeline tools
Video:
YouTube: repository of video | 150,000 per day | 78.3 million estimated uploaded | 412 years to watch all videos
Broadcast Video
Animoto: create flash video
Voicethread: create video with commenting features
Specialty sites:
National Archives Experience: The Digital Vault.
Life Photos hosted by Google: Google hosts all Life photos from the 1750’s to today
Alec Couros Open Thinking Wiki
Transliteracy: The ability to read, write, and interact across a range of platforms and tools from orality through print, TV, radio and film, to networked digital media.
Core Principles of Media Literacy
Confronting the Challenges of Media Literacy | Henry Jenkins
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