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As you know the deadline for creating and uploading the edutopia video is coming up very soon. To inspire you and to hopefully move you along, here are a couple of videos already created and uploaded to teachertube.

Post note: I have removed the embedded documents because they are not downloading correctly.

We have 10 days in which to complete your video entry on the Edutopia site asking “what is the most important skill to learn for your future and why?

Today I want you to share with the group your ideas and progress so far.
We will also take a look at a website that considers the skills that a person living in the 21st C might need. Have a look at these skills and write a response in the comment section of this post about which of these you think are particularly important.

Then continue with your video development.

Giving Students a Voice

Edutopia, supported by the George Lucas Foundation is a great resource for teachers and students. There is great depth in the site which gives a wide range of resources, lesson plans, videos, links to other blogs as well as blogs within the site.
I came across this rather simple yet powerful idea to give students a voice.

Edutopia.org wants to hear from students about which skills you think your school should teach to help you succeed in life.

Kids are experts on the modern digital world, and we think it’s time adults listened.

Create a video stating your opinion, and submit it by October 30 — we’ll publish our favorites on Edutopia.org.

It’s simple — there are just five steps:

1. Create a video, no more than one minute long, answering this question:
   “What do you think is the most important skill to learn for your future — and why?”
   The footage could consist of straightforward talking to the camera, or something more creative.
2. Introduce yourself with your first name only.
   
3. Obtain parental consent for taping and posting on the Internet if you are younger than eighteen years old.
   
4. Post the video on YouTube and tag it “edutopiaskills.” (Note that YouTube users must be at least thirteen years old.)
   
5. Send an email to skills@edutopia.org, telling us your name, age, parental contact information, and hometown, and include a link to the video.

You’ll need a (free) YouTube account to do the upload. Find YouTube’s instructions for uploading here and for directions for tagging here.

So how about it Year 9/10s? We’re game if you are…

Now that we have returned to school after our two week break, it’s time to continue from where we left off.

Check in with your partner to see where you are up to in your creation of your pages on the web2teen wiki. I would also like you to go to the blogs of three students of Liz Davis. They are doing something similar to us in that they are looking at web 2 tools.

Liz has asked us to go to their blogs and comment on what they have written so far.

You task is to browse all three blogs, choose one post and comment, then copy what you wrote in a blog post on the ning. You should also write about why you chose that post. Don’t forget to add a link to the post that you commented on.