A Blog of Her Own

OK, so it’s the longest day of the year and I’m sitting in a hotel room blogging. Solstice should be celebrated! I did spend some time meditating and while watching the sun slowly sinking, so that will have to do this year. Should have light for a few more hours.

Now, on to the point of this entry. Still at the SuperNet Opportunities Conference, this time the banquet dinner. I left my tablet in the hotel room because I figured they wouldn’t do much in the way of program over dinner. I was wrong. And, to be honest, the talk at dinner was the most exciting thing I’ve heard all day! I’ve been working SuperNet too long.

This is an intitiative of the Galileo Educational Network and the specific project was Stories and Spaces - work with the Kainai in southern Alberta. Let’s see, what did I write in my analog notebook…

Galileo is about teaching teachers how to incorporate new technologies in their teaching toolkit. Galileo is asking “what can you do with technology that you’ve never been able to imagine before?” That’s the question all Albertans should be asking themselves now. Because we have some amazing technology and ICT infrastructure available to us now.

The Stories and Spaces project was about trying to bring life to a way of being - to enable the sharing of elders’ knowledge with the next generation. My interpretation: recording of oral history and combining with video to create a new story - using technology to tell a story. It has some echos of [murmur] (see blog entries about the community wireless network). The students did all the video work and interviewing for the project. Teachers and Galileo worked together to “design authentically intellectual work that builds knowledge.” Real work and school work became indistinquishable.

I highly recommend you check out the website below. It’s just amazing to see what was done. This is cool stuff.

Stories and Spaces