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9th September 10
Trail : home : Shift Happens

This video was shown at the Manchester/Microsft Envisioning Event (City of Manchester Stadium, 20th November 2007) as part of the morning session.  It helped focus minds on the need for education to embrace a fast changing world.

The video is release under the Creative Commons lisence which allows you to download it for use as long as you credit its source.  You may also modify the video as long as your new creation is released on the web.

Download the video:
 Shift Happens (Windows Media format - 18.6mb)
 Shift Happens (FLV format - 5.17mb) [what's FLV?]

The version used on the MEWAN site is from Microsoft UK, and below is the information regarding it's provenance and development (taken from the Microsoft UK School's Blog)

Over the last few months, a PowerPoint presentation has been doing the rounds, which has a strong message for educational audiences. It works as an opener for conferences or events where the future of education and learning is under discussion, or where you want to provoke a discussion about learning.

  • Karl Fisch, of Arapahoe High School in the US, conceived and created the first version of this presentation for a staff development day. And published it on the web via his website. He released it and gave permission for others to modify it under a Creative Commons licence.
  • Scott McLeod modified it, to make it more relevant to an audience in a wider context. And published it on the web with a Creative Commons licence
  • After conversations with Karl & Scott, Microsoft UK modified Scott's version to include UK-relevant content (it was quite US-centric)
  • And then Jeff Brenman, of Apollo Ideas, applied the creative design to Scott's version. And published it on the web via SlideShare where, incidentally, it won the competition for the "World's Best Slideshow"
  • And finally, with Jeff's permission, Microsoft UK modified his with the UK context. And published it on the web 

Update: Since the original version created by Karl Fisch, it is likely that over 2,000,000 people have seen variations of his presentation, including this one. Karl has posted a very detailed reflection on the content on his blog, which analyses the sources and his original intentions for publishing. Some of the sections/slides he refers to aren't in this UK version, but there is very interesting comment from him worth reading if you are interested in looking into the presentation more deeply.