Holocaust Memorial Day

Some educational materials.

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/default.htm
An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature

Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive (USHMM)
http://resources.ushmm.org/film/search/index.php
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive. The Archive serves as a comprehensive informational and archival resource worldwide for moving image materials pertaining to the Holocaust and related aspects of World War II.

Witnessing The Holocaust (BBC Archive)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/index.shtml
This site provides free access to a collection of online archive films and recordings relating to the Holocaust of the Jewish population during the Second World War.

Yad Vashem's Channel (YouTube)
http://youtube.com/user/YadVashem
Containing the world's largest repository of information on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is a leader in Holocaust education, commemoration, research and documentation.

The Holocaust History Project
http://www.holocaust-history.org/
The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.

Image: Remember by tochis from Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons licence.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43217080@N00/1302364866

2010 Horizon Report

Just published, the Tomorrow's World annual ( of Higher (& Further) education. Sorry. Too cynical. The annual Horizon Report is always interesting. 

 The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.

Some technologies may not be relevant to FE but much of them are. The report is broken down into three sections: technologies on the brink of adoption; those which may be adopted in 2-3 years; and in 4-5 years.

Imminent? Mobile computing & Open Content. Fair enough.

2-3 years? Simple Augmented Reality & electronic books. 4-5 years? I'm not looking that far ahead!

Interesting that they consider that the day of the (academic) e-book is not here yet. With this I would concur. We need e-book readers); we need sympathetic publishers or a new publishing model; we're going to get David Cameron. [Sorry. A perfectly structured post (in my head) is being overcome by the office Radio One & endless wittering].

Maybe this is what the future will look like:

But, given that our ICT & ICLT people can't get their heads Windows Server 2003, DNS, LMSs & the alphabet soup that is education, maybe we shouldn't go to this year's BETT show but 2005's. They could handle that.

The Horizon Report (pdf) 

The Horizon Report (HTML)

7 Things You Should Know About...

Educause has been publishing these useful little (2 pages) guides for some time now. And I've been punting them at my teaching (academic) colleagues...for some time now. I've even uploaded the more relevant ones to the staff development area of the college SharePoint (sic) shrine. Thus far, seemingly to little avail. Little change there then.

As they say:

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About... series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:
    * What it is
    * How it works
    * Where it is going
    * Why it matters to teaching and learning.

Subjects / technologies covered recently include next-generation presentation tools, Google Wave, collaborative annotation, microblogging, personal learning environments... This list goes on and very informative they are too. All worth a look. Even (especially?) for those with very short attention spans.

http://www.educause.edu/7Things