This morning I worked with Grade 5 and 6 students who all have a tablet PC. I’ve been talking to them about building networks and wanted to demonstrate mine in meaningful, fun, engaging way.
So I decided to take them on a tour, using some interactive maps and showed them the power of networks, open API (don’t worry I didn’t actually use that term) and personalized learning.
At 9:17 local time I sent out a tweet looking for help. In 2 hours we managed to talk with 10 different people from mostly North America, save for Jeff Utecht who was in Malaysia at a conference. We got to have a brief chat with each one, found out a little bit about them and even asked one or two intelligent questions. Using Community Walk (as you can see my community is not walkable) we created placemarks and I added some video snapshots as well.
Here’s the map we created on the fly.
Wedding map to share with guests
CommunityWalk Map – Skype Me
Kids were amazingly focused, running around the room helping each other, teacher laptop in hand right beside her students asking questions, looking like a learner herself, talking to … Read the rest