This short piece from Clay Shirky is from around five years back but I don't see that it's theme has been picked up widely yet within the education sector. Perhaps I am wrong about that and I would love to hear from people who are doing something with this concept in education at the secondary, tertiary or even primary levels.
Its runs for about 5 minutes and he makes the key point right at the end, which is that;
Being really effective at triggering a large group response to a problem, that is loosely but successfully coordinated via social media, is a key 21st century skill.
"The individual power goes down to that one person or small group of people that can offer the plausible promise in a way that gets people not to just be aware that it's possible, but excited about it."
This WIL story about a study tour to the Philippines for a group of of Media students is pretty fantastic.
It made me think about all of the opportunities in our own back yard that we might be overlooking when we look for work scenarios that we think will be inspiring for students.
Most of the video scenes you will see were filmed by students doing WIL on a study tour to Bohol in the Philippines.
Dr Jenny Weight was interviewed for this short WIL-story by another couple of WIL students who were working with our WIL project team - Samantha Lee and Adam Carroll.
We asked Sam and Adam to record their own reflections on their experiences working on the WIL Project Team - which you can check out here.
This page is a temporary posting for the staff at Victoria University only.
We recently invited the suppliers of Sonia and of InPlace to come to VU and present their systems so that staff could see what the two tools could do first-hand. To help staff who were unable to make it to the demonstrations we have asked the Vendors to provide a copy of the presentations.
While we are waiting for an internal Project Site to be opened for us at VU, I have posted the Sonia and InPlace product demonstration videos here so you can easily review the two products that were recently presented to staff at VU.
Please note that this information is shared only for VU use at this time.
If you have any questions about either of these two products' specific capabilities, please use the comments box below to share the questions. I will follow up with the product suppliers to get answers and post them here so that other VU staff can also see the information.
Sonia
Demonstration held at Footscray Park campus on 19th April
Tip: YouTube Videos will automatically adjust to save you bandwidth so presentations like this can initially appear too small or fuzzy to see properly. You can easily correct this by clicking on the picture-frame icon at the bottom right of the Youtube window to expand the Video - then click Settings 'Cog' Icon at the bottom right of the Youtube window and choosing the highest possible setting.
InPlace
Demonstration held at Footscray Park campus on 21st April Note: Quantum advised that they had a problem with the recording made on the day of the demonstration - whilst they are working to rectify the file they have provided us with the following product demonstration videos (made late last year)
