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I see cloud computing and low-cost netbooks in future education.
Category: education
WebTools For Teachers 07/07/2008
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YouTube – What is LinkedIn? Part 2
Part 2 explaining LinkedIn
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Whar LinkedIn actually does.
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How to Stop the Spread of Rumors | Dan Zarrella
Excellent explanation of how to diminish the spread of rumours – pratical & theoretical
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New to the Neighbourhood! – joanvinallcox’s posterous
New very easy way to blog – using email!
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WordPress Tutorial: Moving From WordPress.com to WordPress – WordPress SEO and Blog Marketing
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KDPaine’s PR Measurement Blog: A YouTube video isn’t just a YouTube video
19 different types of videos
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Official Gmail Blog: 2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address
Want to see if an organization is sharing your address – 2 gmail addressing tips.
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PressDisplay.com – Newspapers From Around the World
Displays the actual image of a huge range of papers from many countries – read online or save to read offline.
WebTools For Teachers 07/06/2008
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blippr: Radically Short Ratings and Reviews – blippr [beta]
Interesting – like Twitter, but about how you “discover, recommend and organize media with your friends.” Still in beta but, if I understand correctly, planning to be available within pre-existing social networks, like Facebook. The reviews are the social objects.
WebTools For Teachers 07/05/2008
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MobiMundi » Microblogging: The Future of Participatory Media
“Microblogging – Tiny Social Objects – on the future of participatory media.” Interesting despite the lack of a soundtrack and little text.
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The basics of how we take in and can represent visually. Very helpful.
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Technology Review: Adapting Websites to Users
Reader-friendly hidden adaptation of websites.
WebTools For Teachers 07/04/2008
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Brilliant! More than an hour, but worth it at double the length. ALL TEACHERS can get ideas from it!
“Dubbed “the explainer” by popular geek publication Wired because of his viral YouTube video that summarizes Web 2.0 in under five minutes, cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch brought his Web 2.0 wisdom to the University of Manitoba on June 17 (see video above).During his presentation, the Kansas State University professor breaks down his attempts to integrate Facebook, Netvibes, Diigo, Google Apps, Jott, Twitter, and other emerging technologies to create an education portal of the future.”
“It’s basically an ongoing experiment to create a portal for me and my students to work online,” he explains. “We tried every social media application you can think of. Some worked, some didn’t.”
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Commonwealth of Learning – Education for a Digital World
“Education for a Digital World contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process. It offers practical, contemporary guidance to support e-learning decision-making, instructional choices, as well as program and course planning, and development.”
WebTools For Teachers 07/03/2008
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An alternative to Twitter, Montreal-based, open source & open ID
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What to do with a visually noisy blog » VisualsSpeak blog
How to make your blog visually reader-friendly. Highly recommended. Via OLDaily/Gary Woodill
WebTools For Teachers 07/02/2008
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Interesting possibilities
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280 Slides – Create & Share Presentations Online
Online presentation tool apparently similar to Apple’s Keynote.
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Fascinating – how mobile phones are being used in the Third World.
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Trafcom News: Podcasting inside the corporation
Podcasting for Newbies – learn the basics here.
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From a comment added to my blog, an attractive site but I can’t think of a way I would find it useful currently. And it isn’t free after the trial.
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Poll Authority Features And Benefits: Why Poll Authority Is The Free Poll Authority!
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Online Office, Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, CRM and more
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Rich Chart Live – Create enjoyable and captivating Flash Charts from your web browser for Free
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Informal learning & web 2.0: the mash-up — Informal Learning Blog
Very powerful video mashup of the Learning Technologies 2008 Conference through the (camera) eyes of Jay Cross. Under 10 minutes and worth every second.
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Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth | Video on TED.com
Fascinating – among other things, shows what putting photos on Flickr can contribute to.
WebTools For Teachers 07/01/2008
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Eide Neurolearning Blog: Quick Creativity: Music, Improvisation, and the Brain
I believe teaching is an improvised art, and this sheds interesting light on that.
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Commoncraft in Plain English | medium & the message
An explanatory video of what CommonCraft does and how it does it. Cute.
We May be on the Cutting Edge/Signs of Hope
http://www.freefoto.com/preview/15-27-2?ffid=15-27-2
- I have a friend who is updating a well-known business writing textbook. She wants to add an assignment where students have to using podcasting or videocasting, and wants my help in figuring out how to set it up. I see an inroad into college and university communications courses – provided, of course, that the teachers use the assignment.
- The board of a volunteer organization I work with has set up a wiki and begun using it to plan, record and communicate.
- A provincial math education organization is using a wiki to plan. (Ontario is a very, very, very big province and CommonCraft has described the problems with planning by email – http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english).
I see these as signs that people are becoming more conscious of web 2.0 possibilities. It may not have gone viral – yet – but it may be starting to. Work Literacy has been developing frustratingly slowly but maybe, just maybe, the tipping point is approaching.
WebTools For Teachers 06/28/2008
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Teachers 2.0 » Using Google Docs to record, improve, and increase feedback
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Australian Flexible Learning Framework – News
Upskilling of existing workers and RPL (recognition of prior learning): About 13% of the funded projects are discovering ways of capturing evidence of existing skills in the workplace and putting this information into a long-term usable and online accessible form, such as an e-portfolio.
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Informal and Web 2.0 Learning Survey Results – Internet Time
Informal and Web 2.0 Learning Survey Results
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Research backed and very interesting – “The most destructive form of grading by far is that which is done “on a curve,” such that the number of top grades is artificially limited: no matter how well all the students do, not all of them can get an A. Apart from the intrinsic unfairness of this arrangement, its practical effect is to teach students that others are potential obstacles to their own success. The kind of collaboration that can help all students to learn more effectively doesn’t stand a chance in such an environment.”
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