Health & Wellbeing in Integrated Learning Communities » Sustainable Education

Crofting Connections

louisejones — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:13:00 +0000

After a good long summer break from blogging, I’m back with a bounce with a brand new site for you to explore!

Click the link to find out more about Crofting Connections, I’m a member of the steering group and was only too happy to help out with setting up the blog and email addresses.

Crofting Connections is a fantastic way to provide a rich learning task for providing opportunities for learning outcomes that cut across the whole curriculum. The site tells you more.

The techy bit..the site is a wordpress.com blog that has multi-user functionality, so that means that all involved in the project can update the site, schools can post news and keep the site current. The site however is self-hosted, which means we have our very own domain site, www.croftingconnections.com which serves as a platform for the wordpress site.

It was relatively easy to set up by using a company called www.uk2.net and with the ‘home’ package I got 50 free email addresses linked to the domain name and IT backup help for a year.

This worked out at about £65 a year. Not cheap really, but when you think how much people pay for IT company to set something like that up, it’s cheap as chips (or should that be carrots)

Please enjoy the project and see how it develops…

Superstructed Reality – 2019

louisejones — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:41:48 +0000

This clever game brought to you by The Scientific Lab allows multi-players to think about the postive and negative outcomes of a future world. I’ve often tried to think about what skills young people will need to develop in terms of Health and Wellbeing for the future and a game like this could be a really cool way to stimulate this very kind of discussion. Could be a great active learning tool for several subjects within Curriculum for Excellence.

In 2019, we live in superstructed realities, where physical life and digital life can merge together any way you choose.

Everyone is a media channel, and every body is a data stream. Every physical thing can be programmed for interaction, and every living thing can join your social network. Everything is rehearsed and relived. Every place is both physical and virtual.

Life is a customized version of what you want to see, who you want to be, and what you want to know.

After watching the video you can think about different aspects of the future world and play them like cards. Other players can contribute to your thinking by adding or enhancing your thoughts or by challenging your ideas. You can earn points and there is a leaderboard, but personally I just like to see the thinking and collaboration of others. Thanks to Drew Buddie for tweeting this.