Learning - Thinking - Playing

Energy, Bright Ideas & a Garage

This video from TED 2009 is another way to look success and life i general. If you are unhappy in your current job or position - grab a coffee and take 17 minutes out of your day to look at things a new.

Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success

in 30 years

The following is a video to take the time to watch. This is a video that was submitted in a contest by a 20 year old.  The contest was titled "u @ 50" and this video won second place.

I liked the simplicity and design - the message and content. Last night on the ABC 7:30 report there was an interested segment titled "Screen culture may be changing our brains", in it there is discussion about the loss of literacy - yet here is an example of great imagination and literacy - just in a different form. It is worth watching the 7:30 report and the extended web footage.

Steps to Success

Today I was playing around with a new service (well not really that new) called Boxee - basically it is a media server application that allows you to watch videos and resources and link to video sites online. It is an interesting service and one that is worth exploring, so far I have only loaded it onto my laptop but I am seriously considering blowing my AppleTV away to load it onto that so I can have a true media server for our home.

Whilst playing with Boxee I watched a TED video I had not yet see. This video was a short one that detailed what leads to success. Like a lot of the video's on TED it provides a number of ideas that can challenge and make you think harder about what you are doing or would like to do.

I liked this video because I could relate to a lot of the concepts that were raised - not that my business is successful (I am still in business so I guess that is some form of success) but that the challenges and issues I face on a day to day basis. In my current life I find that I have a roller coaster of emotions and feelings dealing with the ups and downs of running a business and when talking to friends in similar situations they say the same thing. I like this presentation because it was short, simple and reminded me of why am doing what I am doing.

Something Special

I do not need to say much about the following video clip - it is a great metaphor for anyone troubled by adversity or needing an opportunity to shine or just a pick me up.

Enjoy.....

Inspirational Video "Mankind Is No Island"

The following video comes from one of my online and real life friend and highlights just what can be done with sound and vision. This is the short film New York winning entry from this years Tropfest film festival by Jason van Genderen. Thanks for the heads up Deb (Taradcat).

TED - Scope

Again the people at TED have highlighted an innovative project - Scope camera. This project is looking at bring digital cameras to underprivileged children around the world. This project has a slightly different bent to it - check out more details on the website.

idea + square =

Catching up on a few weeks/months of videos and other resources I watched this new clip from Ted.com. Robert Lang looks at the science/mathematics behind Origami and what has been possible in recent years. This is a great video to watch simply to inspire and challenge your thinking  - his origami folding software TreeMaker is available from his website.

 

Check out the video from Ted and then have a go yourself - anything it would seem is possible.

 

ICT Presentation - NZ School Perspective

The following video clip is a presentation from Luke Sumich, the principal at Summerland Primary School in NZ. This presentation was given to the ACCE Study Tour group visiting as part of the NECC study tour June/July 2008.
Luke's passion, drive and presentation style is inspiration and very direct, this is a great clip to show leadership teams and staff to help paint a picture of what is possible and what schools are doing with ICT, staff development and engagement. The video has been broken down into 3 parts.

I recorded this presentation on my Flip Ultra video camera - an example of the audio and video capacity.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

A second inspirational event - Mathtrain.TV

It is just after 3:30pm on Friday afternoon and I (we - the Ed Tech crew) have just had the pleasure of talking to an amazing educator (Eric Marcos) who has setup an online Maths Video sharing site called MathTrain - check out our podcast (Ed Tech Crew) when it comes out next week as it is an amazing story,
or go to the site and have a look:

Inspirational - the piano

I know it is not a Friday Funny - but very inspirational. For me it would rank up there with the theme from Schindler's List in regards to emotive response. Enjoy.