Are We Learning for Earning—or for Living?

Question of Value:

Are We Learning for Earning—or for Living?

….. a writer for MSN.com’s Money section defends the cost of a college degree as an investment leading to 60 percent greater lifetime earnings than a high school graduate can expect-an additional million dollars. Hardly a day goes by without some media source listing the 10 or 20 highest-paying careers (and sometimes the lowest-paying, invariably including teaching) and the schooling…..

TechSmith released improved version of Camtasia for Mac

TechSmith has released Camtasia Studio 7 and Camtasia for Mac 1.1, two software tools designed to let instructors create and edit presentations using screen capture technology.
The Camtasia for Mac 1.1 update adds several improvements, including:

• Enhancements to audio, including improved scrubbing and various effects and adjustments, including noise reduction and pitch adjustment;
• Pause and resume;
• Voice-only recording;
• Monitor selection; and
• Region capture.

Further information can be found here.

Kaltura : Video extension for Moodle & Joomla

Kaltura video extensions for both Moodle, an open source course management system, and Joomla, an open source content management platform allow site-builders for either application to manipulate video and other rich media on their sites, including content management, syndication, monetization, transcoding, uploading, importing, and editing.

Power Learning 2.0 : Beyond Interpretation to Synthesis

I came across this hands-on workshop which is designed to give educators and learners an experience creating new ideas while employing various information literacies – understanding in service to invention.
Here are the expected outcomes of this Power Learning 2.0:

* Experience firsthand the challenge of moving beyond interpretation and understanding to synthesis – the actual construction of new ideas.
* Learn how to focus classroom investigations around decisions and problems drawn from the community and the global neighborhood. Engage students in making their own meaning (constructivism) from the vast new information landscape that is made readily and rapidly available thanks to new technologies.
* Consider how the role of classroom teacher changes in such a program.
* Witness how we may provide structure and scaffolding to maintain quality and focus.
* Explore how students can learn to build their own new meanings and solutions upon conventional wisdom, contributing fresh thinking to important social issues or scientific challenges.
* Begin to develop a personal repertoire of synthesis skills.
* Identify opportunities to teach to curriculum standards by emphasizing decision making and problem solving.
* Taste the power of Inspiration™ to support this kind
of thinking, investigating and inventing.
* Consider the benefits of teams sharing wireless laptops.

Go to freepress.com to see learn more.