While browsing for e-learning examples today, I came across the Center for Digital Storytelling. They’re a non-profit organization that “assists youth and adults around the world in using digital media tools to craft and record meaningful stories from their lives and share these stories in ways that enable learning, build community, and inspire justice.” There are some incredibly powerful stories on their site, such as the one by Zahid Al Amin, a Bangladeshi journalist whose efforts to publicize the story of woman killed in an acid attack had extreme consequences in his own life. Others are less intense, such as Amy Peterson’s meditation on her fifth birthday in august, 1977.
It’s inspiring to see how this tool is used for education, justice, and for individual creative expression.
I’ve finally posted my flight path.
As always it’s a good exercise to think about how courses contribute to our personal or professional goals, and it always makes me feel very fortunate to have a job that actually involves doing what I enjoy and provides room for growth!
Inspector Gadget always seemed to have technology at the ready just when he needed it most. Parachutes, bolt cutters, really long bendy legs – you name it. Wouldn’t it be great if learning technology could be just as handy (but perhaps not as dangerous) as saying “Go-go-gadget learning!”
