Links on the Princess Bride

• 10 Life Lessons from The Princess Bride - Blog Post from “Mr. Besilly”
• Princess Bride Fan Site with Introduction, Lessons Learned, Quotes, moments,
• Memorable quotes for The Princess Bride - from the IMDb
• Favorite Quotes - from “Glazed Doughnut”
• Script for the Princess Bride - in plain text
• Sparknotes Study Guide
• Filamentality Treasure Hunt on The Princess Bride (on the Factoid side)

The Hero & the Monomyth

• Campbell’s 10 Commandments for Reading Myth
• Summary of the Monomyth (+ heaps more) - Wikipedia
• Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey” monomyth by sections
• The Hero’s Journey with mouse-over interaction
• Create Your Own Interactive Monomyth - give this a try?

Modern Heroes

• Heroes of the New Millennium - one person’s view
• “Alternative Heroes” - from Creations magazine
• Modern heroes, modern slaves - Seeing Filipino nurses as heroes
• Time Magazine’s 100 Heroes
• NBC’s Smash Hit Heroes
• International Federation of Competive Eating - Eater Profiles
• Google Image Search for “Hero”

“Web 2.0 Goes to School”

Technologies in the next 10 years will equip students to supercharge or side-step classroom learning. Both will happen. You get to choose which side you’re on.

Open Source Learning

Overview for Hands-on Sessions

In the Spirit of CEQALL and open source learning, you are the best person to determine what’s good for you to learn. Below are some options. Choose what’s most interesting to you. Put Effort into the exercise and look to pursue Quality with ICT-enhanced learning this term.

Introducing C E Q A LL

(pronounced “seek all”)

• Choice
• Effort
• Quality
• Attitude
• Labour of Love
• Read an Overview
• CEQALL Profiles (pdf download)

The 2nd10 Steps

• Explore the Steps (click a step for info)
• Search Filamentality
• Peruse aNew3R’s (try “editor’s Picks“)
• Study the “Freedom Fighter or Terrorist” WebQuest

Year 9 - MyPlace.com

• MyPlace Web site
• About the MyPlace project
• Paths for Teachers
• MyPlace Bookmarks - on Del.icio.us

Learning with WebQuests

Learn as a Team by Participating in a WebQuest

• What’s Web 2.0?
• Creating your Own Social Justice ClassPortal

Background on Web 2.0 & Wikipedia

• E-learning 2.0, by Stephen Downes
• The Hive - Atlantic Monthly article about Wikipedia
• Podcast of Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales on ABC’s Big Ideas
• Know it All - New Yorker Magazine article about Wikipedia
• Wikipedia vs. Britannica - Nature Magazine.com & The Register with Britannica’s rebuttal
• The Wisdom of Crowds - Wikipedia entry, Comments from a blog
• Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog

All About Podcasts

• Workshop links for learning to podcast

Blog your Learning

Use the comments link below (or set up a blog in the next section) to share your learning from today.

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