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New book!

I’ve just finished compiling and uploading the new student-book on “Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Learning”, full of papers written by my bachelor students. http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/auf-den-spuren-lew-wygotskis/7436116 0

23 July 2009 at 11:52 - Comments

Google Tech Talk by Mitchel Resnick: Sowing the Seeds for a more Creative Society

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qWF1SJ4LGI I love the first slide, where Mitchel Resnick presents three words and asks his audience to play the “odd one out” game with him. The words are: Television, Computer, Paintbrush. Which word would you choose? This is a pretty simple, but very effective tool to make a quick diagnosis of your perspective on technology […]

22 July 2009 at 09:53 - Comments
bob at 11:01 on 22 July 2009
Wow, I didn't know that a German guy named Froebel INVENTED Kindergarten... For more information: http://www.froebelweb.org/
bob at 11:50 on 22 July 2009
http://www.computerclubhouse.org/

@Google Talks

Hey, check this out, if you don’t already know it… I’m eager to watch some of these talks: http://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks 0

17 July 2009 at 15:43 - Comments

TPACK: Using technology for enriched experiences of content

I’ve discovered, more by chance, the DEVOLVE website (http://www.open.ac.uk/darwin/devolve-me.php), which allows you to make a “[…] journey back in time [and] to see yourself as you would have looked as an early human”. To me, this is a nice example of a digital technology tool that allows you to have enriched and personally connected experiences […]

17 July 2009 at 14:21 - Comments
bob at 14:23 on 17 July 2009
more over, the fact that kids could use their own pictures and DE-volve themselves would make the exploration of evolutionary…

“Free: the past and future of a radical price” – a book by Chris Anderson

This book is about the 21st century meaning of “free”, which really means you don’t have to pay anything… as opposed to the 20th century meaning of free, which meant that there’s a hidden cost somewhere. The book is available as a book (for instance on www.amazon.de, www.amazon.com), with a small cost, or as an […]

10 July 2009 at 08:35 - Comments

Educational Origami: Integration of ICT into the classroom

Educational Origami is a blog, and a wiki, about the integration of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that we face as teachers. It’s about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching. http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/ 0

8 July 2009 at 14:02 - Comments
bob at 20:27 on 8 July 2009
interestingly this website offers quite some resources on the links between learning & teaching with ICT and Blooms Taxonomy of…

Chronological order and disorder

By cross-posting some entries from my posterous.com blog onto my wordpress blog, there are now some ana-chronisms… Please refer to my original posterous.com blog (http://bobreuter.posterous.com/) to see things in their correct time-frame… 🙂 0

2 July 2009 at 08:15 - Comments

Learning to dance – episode 4

Yesterday, we repeated several dance steps and were introduced to the “valse viennoise”. The “cha-cha-cha” works pretty good for us, maybe the turning move needs some minor improvements and the re-connection after the turn is not perfect yet… but it’s fun! The “tango” is starting to be really good… one lady even complemented us on […]

2 July 2009 at 08:12 - Comments

Learning to dance – episode 3

Yesterday, we’ve been to our third dance class and we repeated the “valse lente”, extended the “cha-cha-cha” (with the so-called “New York” steps) and learned the basic steps of the “tango”. I still find the “tango” quite difficult, because it’s a longer sequence of steps that I tend to confuse, after a while, with other […]

2 July 2009 at 08:11 - Comments

Learning to dance – episode 2

I just realize that I’ve skipped the documentation of our second dance class… Can’t tell you why… maybe I’ve been too busy reading and evaluating my students’ exams, reports and essays… Well, this teaches me something, at least… when I don’t write down my thoughts and experiences shortly after I’ve had them, then they are […]

2 July 2009 at 08:11 - Comments