The Twitter Experiment - UT Dallas (via kesmit3)

Very interesting video on Twitter in the classroom.

Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom. She had heard of Twitter… She collaborated with the UT Dallas, Arts and Technology - Emerging Media and Communications (EMAC) http://www.emac.utdallas.edu faculty and as a Graduate student in EMAC I assisted her in her experiment and documented it for a digital video class with Professor Dean Terry, @therefore, and a collaboration and content creation course with Dan Langendor, @dlangendorf.

Johnny Lee on Wii Remote hacks at TED 2008

Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008.

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

I know it’s old news, but never the less one of the most inspirational speakers on the importance of creativity in education. Filed at the TED conference.