Category — Multimedia Content

If you are a parent of a teen today you are no doubt concerned about what you hear regarding violent video games. Generally speaking, there appears to be a wide-spread consensus that such games are the bane of society and the source of growing anti-social and risk-taking behavior in teens.
At the same time, if […]

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After finishing our recent set of posts on the use of comic books as a tool for teaching reading, we received a great deal of positive feedback from readers. The “atta’ boys” came particularly from those who are longing to see the elimination of the negative stigma the public often associates with comics.
However, we were […]

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Before we begin our weekly roundup of interesting education/web pages in the news we wanted to follow up with a couple of additional comments regarding the recent comic book series. Perhaps the most interesting and positive aspect of our research was the depth to which proponents of the use comics in the classroom have gone […]

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Today we offer our recommendations as to the best comics for teachers to explore the concept in their own classrooms. We have pounded the Internet pavement and read the reviews of sellers and independent critics alike to try to find a list that is unequivocally strong.
To be sure of academic support for the concept […]

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Yesterday we took a brief look at an educational instructional innovation that is gaining acceptance nationally, the idea of using comic books to teach reading and writing. Our post focused on the notion that it is essential to get investment from students if we want to them to learn. Therefore, if comics bring about greater […]

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Today the focus in education is on enhanced student learning. Therefore all curriculum materials and teaching techniques are receiving careful review.
Just as education begins to emphasize standards and achievement, an innovative method of teaching reading and writing is catching steam. Recognizing that capturing the attention of young readers is an essential component of effective teaching […]

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Videos have been a real key to the Internet explosion. As we set forth towards 2008, we at OpenEducation.net bring you our “Twelve Must See Educational Videos of 2007.” Whether it be teaching, the changing face of education, or a combination thereof, the creative juices were flowing across the net. From the breakthrough discoveries of […]

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To further the discussion on the recent post about the great digital divide and the classroom of today, consider the words of Marshall McLuhan, 1967, he of “the medium is the message” fame who always insisted he learned “in spite of his professors.” He of course also one day became a professor of English “in […]

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Today, you do not have to enter the hallowed halls of MIT to have access to an MIT education. At the MIT OpenCourse website, interested learners are now but a click of a mouse away from the curriculum of 1,800 courses offered at tone of the premiere educational institutions in America.
That means access to […]

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It was precisely a month ago that the New York Times published the amazing news that Microsoft would invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. According to the article, that figure put the value of the three-year-old social networking site at $15 billion.
The “astronomical valuation for Facebook” according to the Times […]

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