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21st Century Education practice: Tutankhamun Exhibition in Cologne (DE)

A cultural holiday in Cologne (Germany) in 2011.

Visiting the Tutankhamun Exhibition in Cologne (Germany) in January 2011. A small report about that exhibition and about Cologne in Germany as also a bit history around it…

This was a Knol created on January 30, 2011 and migrated to WordPress Annotum on June 30, 2012.

Tutankhamun Exhibition in Cologne (DE)

Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun – his tomb and his treasures…

EXPO XXI – Gladbacher Wall 5

until 20th, March 2011

A sensational discovery 88 years ago turned the unknown pharaoh Tutankhamun into a superstar. In 1922, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the burial chambers of the ancient Egyptian king with their vast treasures – an event that caused a worldwide sensation.

The story of Tutankhamun fascinates people to this day. His mysterious, premature death and unique legacy are the stuff of legend.

The exhibition shows the world’s only museum-quality replica of mankind’s most fascinating tomb and its treasures. Now, for the first time, after 88 years it offers the opportunity to visit the tomb three-dimensionally in its original state. Welcome to the Valley of Kings in Cologne: The Exhibition Web Site

Keywords:

Egyptology, Egypt, History, Exhibitions, Culture, Geography, Germany, Cologne, Tourist Guide, constructive and educational holidays,…

The Exhibition In Pictures…

Inside the exhibition: it is allowed to take photos inside that exhibition, but without using the flash. So profit from it, I did… Photos below are my propriety and there is also a copyright message in the photos. If you find a photo where you think that there is no viewable copyright in it, take care… There might be a hidden one 😉

Or, maybe some Steganography???

Address: EXPO XXI – Gladbacher Wall 5

until 20th, March 2011

Tutankhamun Exhibition in Cologne (DE) on January 2011

Click here to visit the Slideshow

While enjoying the Picasa-Slide-Show, please listen to the music in the music-videos below, make your choice…

Cologne (Germany)

Text from Wikipedia: Cologne (Köln in German) is Germany’s fourth-largest city (after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich), and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants (that is 20 times more than Luxembourg has inhabitants). It is one of the oldest cities in Germany, having been founded by the Ubii in the year 38 BC. The name is derived from that of the Roman settlement, Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium.

More information from Wikipedia here: Cologne

Visit Cologne Germany
Cologne (Köln) in Germany

Where Is The Exhibition?

Address: EXPO XXI – Gladbacher Wall 5

until 20th, March 2011

Impressionen zur Ausstellung Tutanchamun – Sein Grab und die Schätze

Other places:

Melbourne April 2011
Minnesota (USA) 18 February 2011
… see also National Geographics Events for other exhibitions…

How To Find A Good Hotel???

As we are living in 21st Century, so best is to choose an hotel over Internet, here below some good addresses to do so:

BOOKING.COM
TRIVAGO (multilingual)
TRIPADVISOR (multilingual)
VirtualTourist
…

Tips And Tricks For Visiting Cologne…

Amateurs of museums would love Cologne because Cologne is home of more than 30 museums. What visitors of museums should know is that it is not allowed to bring in the museums handbags, nor photo bags…

Cologne is nice to explore by walking, make sure to book a hotel not too far away from the cathedral, otherwise take the suburban, the S-Bahn… You may also use sometimes the taxi, they have fair prices in Cologne, e.g: from the cathedral to the exhibition XXI the costs were 9 € (25.01.2011)…

Use also VirtualTourist to find out what other visitors say about Cologne…

Warnings and dangers:

There are a lot of bikers in Cologne and on the pavement they have their special lane, watch out. If not used to it you might get an accident with a bike while walking on the pavement (it nearly happen 3 times to me…). The pavements in Cologne are broader than usually and this allows a special lane for bikers on the pavement, a very good solution, the bikes are not on the road and they can drive safely…

Click here to visit the Slideshow

A must-see in Cologne is also the Hard Rock-Café…

Click here to visit the Slideshow

While enjoying the Picasa-Slide-Show, please listen to the music in the music-videos below, make your choice…

Restaurants:

Farmer’s Steak-House (close to the cathedral)
Colina Cuba Restaurant (best grilled steak I ever eat…), also very good red wines…

Pubs and “Kneipen” (Cafés in Cologne):

My favorites…

Weisser Holunder
Irish Pubs in Cologne
Jameson Pub (Friesenstrasse)
…

Click here to visit the Slideshow

This Irish Pub has the specialty that it shows football matches in 3D on TV. My first experience with a 3D TV. Customers who want to watch the emissions in 3D ask the bar stuff and they will get furnished 3D glasses…

Interesting Videos and information…

Explore the videos to find out more about the “Golden Boy Pharaoh“… More interesting than dry texts…

Akhenaten, King Tut, and the Shock of the New…

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Dr. Hawass in the Valley of the Kings: part 1/2

Dr. Hawass in the Valley of the Kings: part 1/2

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Dr. Hawass in the Valley of the Kings: part 2/2

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King Tut Unwrapped – DNA Extraction

King Tut Unwrapped – DNA Extraction | Behind the Scenes

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Tutankhamun secrets revealed

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Life and Death of King TutLife and Death of King Tut

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Drilling under the Sphinx (Featuring Dr Zahi Hawass and Dr Mark Lehner)

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King Tut’s DNA | Royal Blood

King Tut Unwrapped – King Tut’s DNA | Royal Blood

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King Tut’s face revealed

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King Tut’s Mystery Tomb Opened….King Tut’s Mystery Tomb Opened

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King Tut – The Boy King’s Treasures….King Tut – The Boy King’s Treasures

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King Tut – The Robbing of King Tut’s Tomb

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Secret of The Pyramids 1/2….

Secret of The Pyramids 1/2
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Secret of The Pyramids 2/2

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The Mummification Process….

The Mummification Process
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Funny Learning For Kids, With Music-Videos, Enjoy 😉

International Information About Egyptology…

Please find here very interesting links to related articles about Egypt and his history…

Versteckte Kammern entdeckt? Neue Erkenntnisse zur Konstruktion der Cheops-Pyramide… in German (use translation tools, please…)
Discovery Channel
Science Museum
- Science Museum Tutankhamun

…

HowTo use exhibitions for education

First I created this blog for my own purpose, but then I thought also about on publishing it on a way as that it could get used as an idea on HowTo for education. That’s why you will find that much information on it, it’s created as a multidisciplinary blog and could get used as a sort of template for others in education…

You will find not only a description of the exhibition, but also information about the City Cologne as of the Country Germany as well as information about Egyptology and more… So it’s a valuable source…

That’s what you should do also with your learners, students when visiting an exhibition:

let them take photos (when authorized only!)
let them create a blog about it, as I did here, and let them express their thoughts and impressions…
ask them to bring in also information about the country (or state…)
ask them to bring in also information about the global theme (here it was Egyptology)…
ask them also to bring in music videos as a bit entertainment (you will motivate them…) related to that theme…
ask them to create also slideshows…
show them HowTo promote their blogs through Social Medias such as Twitter…
show them HowTo use curation to collect their information through Twitter, Facebook, RSS News and…
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/learning-to-learn-is-21st-century-teaching-and-learning-challenge/
- …
show them HowTo they can create best quality blogs by using different techniques:
- Creating tables to display multiple videos
- …

Look at following keywords to find out about what you should think about and what this sort of blogs will result in.

Keywords: creativity, motivation, self-learning, autodidact, critical thinking, engaging, competences, multimedia skills, social media skills, learning to learn, culture, history, rich multimedia, problem solving (finding hotels, finding best places to go out, finding best restaurants…), organization skills, learning to live in other countries, multicultural, using tables to display lots of videos for better presentation,

Stay tuned for next free courses…

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How-To use Twitter with success for Education and more…

27 Jun

How-To use Twitter with success for Education and more…

Ever wanted to use Twitter but didn’t find its utility? You tried Twitter but you didn’t have that success with it? Probably that’s what happend to you as it happend to me as well six (6) months ago, till I was learning about Twitter through my Personal Learning Network (Hashtag = #PLN) on Twitter. Yes, I learned through Twitter, strange isn’t it? How can 140 characters be get used for learning, sounds strange isn’t it?

As on 13-07-2015 I posted 94.5K (94,500) Tweets (Twitter posts) with a Google Page Rank of 5/10!

Click image, please, to access my Twitter account.

In the best case scenario, Twitter is a great vehicle for connecting, sharing resources, and personal and professional learning. The key is separating the good from the bad. Read the following blogs on my curation to learn more: http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?q=Twitter.

One of the most important on Twitter, the Hashtag #

Knowing now that one can learn through Twitter on How-To use Twitter, let me tell you some other tips which you need absolutely to have success: Twitter uses “Hashtags“. Hashtags allow other like-minded people to follow those topics.

For Education there is a lot of different “Hashtags“, see following lists http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?q=hashtags and description.

Text from EDUDEMIC: The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keyword or topic in a Tweet. Any Twitter user can categorize or follow topics with hashtags. Those hashtags (usually) mean something and are a great way to get a tweet to appear in search results or discussion monitoring.

Example: we created a blog about education and we want to share this blog efficiently over Twitter, so we could do this as following:

So, I prepared a practical example above (see screenshot) where I use different hashtags and you will remark also that I left 21 caracters free in the “Tweet” (that’s the name of a Twitter message). One should leave 20 characters minimum left for that an other Twitter user (Tweep or Tweeps they are called) may have the possibility to resend (Retweet) that message (Tweet) to their followers, that’s called making a “Retweet“, (RT).

What you MUST KNOW and use!

===> ‘Hashtag’ Declared 2012’s Word of the Year <===

To get well used with Twitter check the “Twitter Glossary” and “The code of conduct“:

Look at following keywords to find out about what you should think.

Keywords: code of conduct, hashtags, creativity, motivation, self-learning, autodidact, critical thinking, engaging, competences, multimedia skills, social media skills, learning to learn, culture, organization skills, multicultural, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, share your experiences,

…

While using Twitter, we live in another world where the above mentioned rules should get followed to have success with our Tweets!

Respecting this new world by following its rules

It’s important to thank your followers when they Retweet your Tweets; this shows good manners and respect! Be social!!! They will appreciate it and you need your followers to build up your own little network for sharing Tweets. You can even build up a “Personal Learning Network” (Hashtag = #PLN). Check here to learn more about a “PLN” http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?q=PLN.

Related links: Twitter-Chat and Twitter best practices in EN, FR, DE:

Watch these videos to find out more here

How did I build up my Personal Learning Network?

The Majority of Twitter users are following everybody who is following themselves, that’s what I did also on the beginning… Later I wanted to be connected ONLY with people who have the same interests, for me that was “Education” and “IT-Security“, “Internet-Safety“, “Online-Safety” and in general “Knowledge Sharing” and “Learning“… So I “unfollowed” some of my followers who did not match to that criteria which gave me also a better “ratio“! The “ratio” is the difference between followed and followers… Check here to learn more: follower-to-following ratio.

That’s only my individual way, whereby some won’t agree with me, but it was the best way for me… Perhaps also to you, maybe not for you!?

I Did It My Way!

Any other secrets?

YES, try to not publish ONLY about your knowledge but be also “social“, you are on a “Social Network“! Do not be blinkered specialist! Thus meaning, interact with some “Tweeps” and publish something different, be a bit private (but not too much…); talk about the weather, events, propose your new blogs to your followers with same interests and ask them also for feedback, critics… Ask friendly for a review… You will get “Retweeted” and you will get a feedback which helps you to make your published articles (blogs) “better“… Stay out of the crowd! You need to be open to “critics“, they are not negative, but should be seen in a positive way to present your knowledge better to your audience, as better they are as more visitors you will get and success is there 😉

As you have build already (or are on the way to do so…) your own “Personal Learning Network” (PLN), make it interesting for your followers and tell them about your new projects, such as e.g.:

#education #publishing soon my new blog about How-To use #SoMe #Twitter with success, stay tuned 😉

How-To use Twitter as SEO booster?

Your blogs and/or Web Sites can get a boost on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) while using Twitter, you will need to have the right feeling and knowledge for that…

How did I do it? I am using also “curation” where I (of course…) publish also my blogs related to me chosen Topics on my curation account http://www.scoop.it/webwizard.

I use also the FREE service of http://paper.li/, an online Newspaper, learn more from their own text presentation here:

Paper.li is a content curation service. It enables people to publish newspapers based on topics they like and treat their readers to fresh news, daily.

We believe that people (and not machines) are the ones qualified to curate the content that matters most. We also think that these same people can greatly help their own communities to find their way through this “massive content world” we live in. We’re here to help!

Every day, around the world, millions of articles are featured on Paper.lis, benefiting millions of readers. We are just at the beginning of an exciting new adventure and we think we’re on to something good.

We love the semantic web, we respect our content creators, we strive for simplicity, and we thrive on feedback.

Gust MEES:

===> See Paper.li as: A personalized newspaper built from articles, blog posts, videos and photos selected by Paper.li community. <===

So, in practice this is meaning that I “curate” tweets from other followers with the same interests on my publications and they “curate” also my tweets, my blogs and other published information will get published and shared by them, my audience will grow…

Paper.li

My Paper.li’s:

http://paper.li/knolinfos (mostly about Education…)
http://paper.li/knolinfos/1318273405 (mostly about IT-Security and Internet-Safety…)

The Best way to learn about is to watch Twitter-Chat

As I was already talking a bit about Twitter-Chat in the top of this blog, so let’s deepen this knowledge here as it is for me the BEST way to find out How-To Twitter is “working” for learning and to teach, to build up a “Personal Learning Network” (PLN).

A “Chat” on Twitter, are you kidding??? That’s probably your first reaction, isn’t it? I don’t blame for that, it sounds strange, true. It was sounding strange to me also on the beginning, but I changed very quickly my point of view of it and I learned to appreciate the “Twitter Chat’s“, as they are a very quick learning and teaching tool…

I will not talk too much about it to convince you about it, no one could anyway, you must see the practice to understand it…

Here below some Twitter-Chats which I can recommend to find out, the practice:

http://twitter.com/#!/lrnchat/
- See also: http://lrnchat.wordpress.com/about/ who explains you in detail what and how, a MUST READ!
http://twitter.com/#!/tomwhitby
- See also: http://tomwhitby.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/we-are-edchat/

So, that’s ALL secrets I will tell you, LOL. The Best way to find out anyway is to follow some Top Tweeps and to analyze how they are doing to be successful…

Don’t know how to handle and make critics?

Check here to learn more:

Stay tuned for next FREE courses 😉 and let me know by a Tweet about how this was useful to you, I would appreciate to get feedback! Constructive critics are welcome! Thanks in advance to document them over Twitter…

My Twitter account is http://twitter.com/#!/knolinfos

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Posted by Gust MEES on June 27, 2012 in 21st-Century-Teaching-and-Learning, Annotum-Theme, Better Learning about ICT, Blog creation, Critical Thinking-a need!, Curation, Education, FREE-courses, HowTo, Learning about Social Medias, Learning about Twitter, Learning to Learn, Personal Learning Network (PLN), PLN, Tutorials

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Learning to Learn is 21st Century Teaching and Learning Challenge!

24 Jun

Learning to Learn is 21st Century Teaching and Learning Challenge!

In 21st Century we get that masses of information so that it is nearly becoming impossible to follow them and especial to collect and understand them! Teachers and Educators have big problems with that and not to tell about the learners then…

So, first teachers and educators need to know How-To deal with such a situation before they would be able to teach their learners about it…

Don’t get stressed by the overwhelming data and don’t waste your time! There is a big need to stay very well organized otherwise we will loose the overview, but how!?

In this blog I will give you some tips on How-To which I use myself since years and who could be also useful to you “teachers” and “learners“, where the teachers are also learners as I am also, a Life Long Learner 😉

How-To stay organized

As already mentioned we we get that masses of information and we should first find out where we get the best information and then How-To manage that information so that it doesn’t take to much time efforts…

How to gather information on Internet who fits my topics?

First of all, where can we gather interesting information about topics of our interests? Later on you probably know this eternal problem also: you have found some interesting information which you would like to collect to find it back later… But how-to do? How to do on a way that you find it back very fast without browsing through your bookmarks of your browser, which mostly of time is bad organized anyway???

Using curation to get better organized and to learn

Google News gives you already an overview of your interested topics, but the results are a bit poor if not well filtred and you don’t have them saved 😦 as they change constantly…

A better way to get organized is the “curation“, thus meaning: you will use Google’s search engine results on a specific Topic and you make your choice about what you want to “keep” and that information you save it on a “curation service” such as (my favorites):

Pearltrees

Scoop.it

What is curation?

Please find below some useful links:

Curation explained by Wikipedia

Article about Curation on Scoop.it
My curation about “Curation”

My Scoop.it curation which might be helpful to you as it shows what is necessary to know in 21st Century Teaching and Learning:

Learning to Learn
21st Century and Learning (EN, FR, DE)
21st Century Tools for Learners and Teachers (EN, FR, DE)
Apple, Mac, iOS4, iPad, iPhone and (in)security (EN, FR, DE)
ICT-Security/Sécurité PC et Internet (EN, FR, DE)
ICT Security Tools (EN, FR, DE)
Apps and Widgets (EN, FR, DE)
Cyberbullying, it’s not a game! It’s your life!!! (EN, FR, DE)
Free Tutorials (EN, FR, DE)
Google+ Project (EN, FR, DE)
Augmented Reality (EN, FR, DE)
QR-Code and its applications (EN, FR, DE)
Social Medias and its influence (EN, FR, DE)
UpTo12-Learning (EN, FR, DE)
WordPress and Annotum for Education (EN, FR, DE)
Lord Of Curation

Using RSS-Feeds

RSS-Feed Module for your blogs and websites and for WordPress also…

RSS-Feeds are also a very good Tool to stay informed about News of specific Topics, find below an example of “ICT Security News” (in EN, FR, DE…).
The RSS-Feed below was created with FeedBurner, a FREE service from GOOGLE.

Find below a tutorial who will guide you step by step on How-To…

Inscription to FeedBurner

FeedBurner is a FREE service from GOOGLE

Getting started, the inscription…

Here above the start page after you have accessed the website from FeedBurner with on right hand side the inscription field like shown above…

You are ready now to create your RSS-Feed

Choose your Feed now…

Example 1:

Now you need to find an RSS-Feed who fits your Topic(s)…

You may know already an RSS-Feed from one of your preferred web sites or you may have a look at Google News. Choose now your language, country and topic(s) and browse trough the web sites… Most web sites in Google News (and elsewhere…) are providing an RSS-Feed…

Let us take an practical example: I like SCI-TECH TODAY and on the bottom of the web site we find the XML/RSS-Feed which we copy now…

Creating our RSS-Feed now…

Open the Tab in your Browser where you had opened the web site from FeedBurner and paste the copied RSS-Feed into it…

Click the “Next” button now.

Following screen will appear…

Click the “Next” button.

You have the choice now to click the “Next” button or to go to “Skip directly to feed management“, make your choice. In our example we will go directly to “Skip directly to feed management“, by clicking this link.

The following screen will now appear.

Click on the Tab “Publicize“.

Click now on “Headline Animator“.

Now you can configure your Module by changing colors, width… Make your choice…

Your choice made, click now the “Activate” button.

The following screen will appear…

Now you can choose for which application the Feed will be, make your choice…

Click the “Next” button now.

You are done now. Copy your HTML Code…

Insert (paste) your code

Grab this Headline Animator

Here is the result now… This example shows the basic version only. Now as you know on How-To you may create an other RSS-Feed by trying out all the other possibilities which offers FeedBurner.

Stay tuned for next blog posts 😉

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Posted by Gust MEES on June 24, 2012 in 21st-Century-Teaching-and-Learning, Annotum-Theme, Better Learning about ICT, Critical Thinking-a need!, Curation, Education, eLearning, Free courses, How To stay organized, HowTo, Learning to Learn, Personal Learning Network (PLN), PLN, RSS Feeds, Tutorials