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- I'm Nigel Riley. I'm a primary school teacher in Plymouth, UK. I am subject leader in ICT and Gifted and Talented education. I have just completed a cycle of research into the uses of concept mapping which has been an interesting journey around many key areas including creativity and dialogical learning.
I am currently browsing related and branching interests involving E-pedagogies, conscientization and pupil voice.
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Conscientization
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....another pathway was through Anna Craft's New Generation Documentors, where groups of children observe, reflect and analyse on what and how they are being taught. I found so many parallels with Paulo Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' that I reread it and was astonished at how his basic principles can still be applied to many fac… Continue
Posted on May 19, 2008 at 12:52pm — 3 Comments
Imagework
I am reading A Guide to Imagework by Ian Edgar (2004)....... has anyone experienced using these imagination-based research strategies in education practices relating to ICT or anything else for that matter?
Hope 2008 is starting well for everyone!
Posted on January 12, 2008 at 4:29pm — 1 Comment
Visual Complexity
Recieved a site address from a friend researching into related themes.
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
Have a look at the great visualisers created by this diverse group of designers!!
Posted on December 3, 2007 at 2:07pm —
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- At 5:06pm on January 21, 2008,
Lynn Marentette said… - Nigel, I also work with students who have autism. I sometimes join students on field trips in the community, and take my video camera and digital camera with me. We are putting together digital social stories that combine video and photos.
I'm a school psychologist, but I'm also a computer student. Right now, I've been experimenting with interactive applications that embed videoclips and photos to make more dynamic social stories.
I've also use Google Earth to add photos as overlays that link to videoclips. This is fun to work with on an interactive whiteboard or touch-screen display.
You can put videoclips in Inspiration- which is fun.
- At 7:20am on December 4, 2007,
Geoff Day said… - An interesting exercise maybe - to figure out what was said! Hope it stood without the words. Of course by not limiting people they may see something different that adds to the idea. If there is any interest I would be happy to dialog one way or another.
By the way speaking of PPT and visualizing, efficiently in this case, have you ever tried pecha kucha? I am trying it with a group in the New Year I hope.
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