Episode 186 - Campfires in Cyberspace

2/29/2016

It’s Monday, February 29th, 2016 and welcome to Episode 186 of TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich. Welcome to TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. Happy Leap Year!

This episode we will have a conversation about "Campfires in Cyberspace" and how designing learning environments need to have a combination of approaches to be most effective.

We will also share our Technology Picks of the "Week".

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(19 minutes 31 seconds)

Show Notes:

Campfires in Cyberspace:
Primordial Metaphors for Learning in the 21st Century
by David D. Thornburg, Ph.D.

http://tcpd.org/Thornburg/Handouts/Campfires.pdf

Campfires
Watering holes
Caves
Life

Screencasts updated from Episode 185:

OneNote Lego Stop Motion Project

https://docs.com/dr-grissom/2327/pedagogy365-onenote-lego-stop-motion-video-project

OneNote Lego Stop Motion YouTube Example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmHmtP1mKfA

itcts 057 Super Easy Photo Album - PowerPoint 2016 (YouTube Video Demo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBg6U9oMAUQ

Technology Picks of the "Week"

Tom’s Pick

Plumbago Notebook Drawing App

https://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2016/02/19/time-to-retire-pen-and-paper-new-microsoft-garage-app-plumbago-reimagines-digital-notetaking/

SketchNotes
(Visual Note-taking) Resources:

https://creativemarket.com/blog/2015/08/31/50-awesome-resources-to-create-visual-notes-graphic-recordings-sketchnotes

Cindy's Pick

Digital Coloring Books: Colorfy

http://colorfy.net/

That wraps it up for episode 186 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc If you have a comment or suggestion please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich. Keep on Learning!

Tom Grissom, Ph.D.

http://eiu.edu/itc

Twitter: @tomgrissom

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