Comments on: This textbook is broken!

By: Vicki Owen

Vicki Owen — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:57:45 +0000

Hi Chris

Do you have a direct link to your “this textbook is broken” video, would like to show it at my institutions Learning and Teaching Conference next week but cannot get a full screen option from the embedded video

Many Thanks

By: Mark Walker

Mark Walker — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:14:21 +0000

Chris
Without sounding a complete “bookhead” not everything is digital, texts do provide us with a means to find out information, they can be accessed when the power if off and if he really wanted the picture or map to access later then he could either do a search or scan it.
I still liked the clip and wondered how the netbooks and use-ability via battery life is going?

By: Charlie O'Sullivan

Charlie O'Sullivan — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:42:02 +0000

Just goes to show that staff training is just as important in the receipe as buying macs.

By: Jenny Luca

Jenny Luca — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:22:12 +0000

Love it Chris. Will have to use it with my students. Thnaks for leading me to it.

By: Dianne McKenzie

Dianne McKenzie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:10:35 +0000

Loved the video (trying to find the original source – cannot – can you help on this one?) –

I am in a Macbook school 1 to 1 from year 6 up with extremely fast connections. We do not have textbooks – it is all resource based learning BUT when involved in collaborative planning just 2 days ago I suggested we do a multi choice pre test using the IWB remotes, or even using an online survey tool – the looks I got along with “I am a paper girl, I would prefer paper pretests”, “it will take longer to create” I tried to sell it – the survey application does all the collating of the results, immediate feedback, individual responses, I even offered to do the work of creating it etc etc – but to no avail. The next hurdle was that they did not want to students accessing online resources for information – at all, I managed to come up with a plan where we would explore directories and databases.. so even though the techology is there and available it is not always embraced by teachers.

Throw away textbooks all together is my suggestion – it is an outdated tool of learning based on finite information harvesting…

By: bfuqua

bfuqua — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:01:28 +0000

The video is great. We recently began hosting our own blogs, podcasts, videos, and wiki. We have had some difficulty finding a good open source wiki that has a built in WYSIWIG. If you do not mind sharing, what wiki are you using?

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By: Mike Perosevic

Mike Perosevic — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:06:24 +0000

Great video Betch!

Makes me ill to think of the $2500-$3000 spent on texts for each class back at HT. That’s enough for an IWB, laptop and projector for each room. I can only dream of going 1 to 1.

By: LangLabCindy

LangLabCindy — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:48:20 +0000

Great video – thanks for sharing it. I love the idea of the textbook being broken – what a novel way to view the dilemma! We’re moving to 1-to-1 for next year and e-texts are a big issue. Publishers are way behind and it is hard to find reasonably-priced, well-thought-out models for delivering organized content/resources. I’ll have fun sharing this with our teachers.

By: Rhondda

Rhondda — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:46:21 +0000

This is a great video. I would love to show this to my students and have tham discuss the meaning/ideas behind this