Monday, June 23, 2008

All depends of where you are

The other day, surfing the web, I ended up in the Claire L. Evans' Flickr account ... where I found this picture. The caption read "From the maps section of Scandinavian Airlines' magazine. Very exciting! Very humbling! East coast becomes west coast and vice versa."

For those that haven't realized it yet ... North America is "Upside-Down".

The fact that we see life and the "world" - in this case literally - based on our present circumstances ... let me reflecting about how many times our instructional products do not take that into account.

Sometimes what we need is some activity, sometimes even just one, to address this and have everybody in the same page with an increased level of awareness.

One of my favorites site to get ideas and activities is Thiagi's website. Check it out !


Monday, June 16, 2008

That's the secret ... Watch less TV

When I read in Learningtown the comment associated with this video "Where do people find the time to do things like edit the Wikipedia?" and the answer ("They watch less television ...") I just felt relief !!!

Unfortunately in my case there is still a lot of shows that I do not want to miss, so in my case ... as many teenagers I end up multitasking.

I am not sure how successful I am in all the simultaneous tasks, but oh well , after a hard day at work, I am convinced that I deserve my TV time.

This is a great video! I am even curious about his book, and even though I don't do what he says I agree that we should use the surplus of our time in more productive tasks than master the couch potato skill set.




If you cannot see the video in my blog try here:
http://www.learningtown.com/video/video/show?id=2039019:Video:27685

(you might need to sign up for free to see the video)

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Web 2.0 - Nice explanation

Some parts of the video are a little bit cheesy for my taste, HOWEVER I think they do a great job explaining what (in the world) is the famous Web 2.0



I hope that you enjoy it