EduTechnorama

Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress

This is not news since I just stumbled on this, and it turns out that this has been going on this whole year: the Flickr Commons. It’s a way to obtain references or use of images that have no copyright restrictions or at least been put into the public domain. This is an example of one from the WWII era (a period I’m really starting to enjoy learning about).

Okay, thanks to his blog post, a classmate got me interested in TeacherTube. I found a video that covers topics for EDT 591 from this past week (virtual worlds), and Smartboards for K-12 (two weeks ago):

My initial reactions: it is mostly an advertisement for the product in use. With that in mind, let’s just say that it is worth the investment for the sake of investigation. To me it appears that this activity is innovative and a good use of the technology. It seems ahead of its time before anyone has done a formal study on it.What could be done with this in order to prove its effectiveness in learning material other than learning to use the tool itself?