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1. Slide 1: Your First Life: Technology and Other Important Things Keynote address Richard A. Schwier TLt 2008 Educational Communications and Technology May 15, 2008 University of Saskatchewan
2. Slide 2: FRED
3. Slide 3: Eudaimonia Photocredit: Gerard Girbes Berges (2008)
4. Slide 4: About who we are as educators
5. Slide 5: Tell vivid stories 5
6. Slide 6: http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools
7. Slide 7: Photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid laughingsquid.com. Having someone listen is just as important as having something to say
8. Slide 8: Reconsider learning outcomes and who owns them
9. Slide 9: •How to predict consequences •How to read •How to distinguish truth from fiction •How to empathize •How to be creative •How to communicate clearly •How to learn •How to stay healthy •How to value yourself •How to live meaningfully -Stephen Downes
10. Slide 10: Being a big stupid failure is important
11. Slide 11: Visioning isn’t new-age crap It actually works
12. Slide 12: Competition isn't always bad, but it lurks in the strangest places
13. Slide 13: About who we are as people
14. Slide 14: Play is more important than work
15. Slide 15: Be selfish and narcissistic
16. Slide 16: If something keeps depressing you when you look at it and you can't do anything about it, turn your gaze
17. Slide 17: Text http://www.globalincidentmap.com/
18. Slide 18: About who we are as Educational Technologists
19. Slide 19: BANG O QuickTimeﾪ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture.
20. Slide 20: We aren't green, but we can be greenish We aren’t green, but we can be greenish http://www.storyofstuff.com/ Photo credit: ocean.flynn
21. Slide 21: http://www.storyofstuff.com/
22. Slide 22: http://www.isuma.tv/ Intentionally break your own patterns of thinking
23. Slide 23: Slow down It’s not a race
24. Slide 24: From Dag to Denise to me to you To preserve the silence within amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky. Dag Hammerskjöld
25. Slide 25: Find constancy in a sea of change
26. Slide 26: We are part of a movement, not part of a search party