The Lefevers are at it again. This time it’s ‘Twitter Search in Plain English’ . It’s a very useful explanation of how you would use Twitter to gain insight about news and trending topics. Especially useful for educators. This is one of the ways we can explain to our students how [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Lee Lefever’
January 11, 2009
Commoncraft – what to expect in 2009.
“In a word: Education.”
Those are the words of Lee Lefever, and great words they are for all of us.
Commoncraft’s incredibly effective Explanations in Plain English videos have been staple products for me as teaching tools ever since I’ve discovered just how well they explain new technologies that can be quite difficult to explain. When you’re [...]
November 28, 2008
Networked Student – Wendy Drexler has helped us out.
Wendy Drexler has created this very useful video explaining how students can benefit from operating and learning in a connected environment. She has very cleverly borrowed from the film techniques employed by Lee and Sachi Lefever to create a very effective means of explaining what many of us try to convey to [...]
October 16, 2008
Web Search Strategies in Plain English from Commoncraft – cast your vote.
The latest from Lee and Sachi Leefever – Web Search Strategies in Plain English. In my opinion, another useful video for my students and yet another great tool for me to use. I’m indebted to them both for making my job so much easier over the last year.
I noticed a new [...]
September 2, 2008
Google Reader – Commoncraft helps explain what we’re all on about!
A turning point for me in my development as an online learner, was when I set up my Google Reader and started subscribing to blogs written by teachers and people interested in education and the impact of technology on learning. Whenever I talk to people about how I made the leap from someone with no idea to someone [...]
August 4, 2008
US election made simple thanks to Commoncraft.
Despite being at the bottom of the world (depending on which way you look at things!) and probably not even factoring in the consciousness of many American citizens, we in Australia are pretty interested in the American political process. What America does matters to us; we are so heavily influenced by the culture, and decisions that [...]
April 22, 2008
Podcasting in Plain English – the Lefevers are at it again!
This is going to be handy. Lee and Sachi Lefever have released a new plain english video – this time Podcasting in Plain english. The video focuses on how you download audio and video to portable devices. I would have liked to see them show how you create a podcast – maybe [...]
March 10, 2008
Twitter made simple (or is it?)
This is all over the Web at the moment and plenty of people in the blogging world were heads up to it four days ago when Lee Lefever posted it on his Common Craft site and YouTube. One of the ways they found about it was from the topic of the video; twitter. Twitter [...]
February 9, 2008
Wikis – We’re on our way
It’s 2am in the morning and I can’t sleep after my son woke me up. I’ve been lying in bed thinking about all manner of things. Do you remember ‘The Proclaimers’? They were two geeky looking Scottish guys with guitars who wrote a couple of catchy songs that were hits in the 80’s. (Still going strong according to their [...]
