Creative Spaces for Learning in a Digital World
It took me a little while to get to this point in my ever growing “to do” list, but here it is. Do you have some additions for this list? I’d love to have some more gems to add to this list.
I have divided these applications up into visual, linguistic, aural, and immersive spaces. There are probably other legitimate ways to view these applications, but this is how I see them. Drop a comment and let me know what you think.
Get the handout of Dan’s slides from the presentation.
21st Century Workers:
- Compete in a GLOBAL economy like none we’ve ever encountered
- Invent new jobs that address new opportunities
- Communicate in multiple mediums and multiple languages
- Deal in information
Authentic Environments
- Real world problems
- Tools and Teams
- Products and Solutions that matter
- Long views
Digital Environments
- Current
- Connected
- Open
- Flexible
- Portable
Visual
- iPhoto
- MacOSaix
- ComicLife
- Google SketchUp
- Google Earth
- Digital Video
- iMovie – http://www.apple.com/imovie
- Video Cue Pro – http://www.varasoft.com (MAC)
- Vlog It! – http://www.seriousmagic.com (PC)
- ImageWell is a freeware image editor: add annotations, change formats to jpg, png, gif, and it has a built-in FTP/SFTP/dot-Mac upload engine.
- Morph X
Linguistic / Audio
- Google Docs
- Fan Fiction
- Narrator
- Blogs
- Wikis
- Podcasting
- GarageBand
- Audacity
- Ubercaster
- Ben Shanfelder’s Audio Recorder is a nice freeware audio recording application – direct to MP3, AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP4, WAV, and more.
- Odeo
- Gabcast
Interactive
- iChat AV
- ToonTown
- Second Life
- Ning
- Yackpack
Data