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Poynter Online – E-Media Tidbits
Skype Tips & Tricks – via Donna Papacosta
Category: education
WebTools For Teachers 11/28/2008
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A story about being green and being ethical – “By trying to do the right thing and by designing for the poorest people in the world, we’ve made the greenest laptop in the world. And that’s not just the color!” Great video. via Stephen Downes
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Thanksgiving: Free Software We’re Most Thankful For
From lifehacker – free software and information about how to use it. To keep you busy and exploring over many holidays! Some I know and love; some I will be exploring or ignoring. via Donna Papacosta & HPCA
Higher Education’s Survival
Sometimes you find someone saying what you have been thinking about. I think the future of higher education is in danger, and I would hate to see the loss of something so precious. Through Stephen Downes wonderful newsletter, OLDaily, which can be linked to here – http://www.downes.ca/, I found David Wiley’s 2008 ELearn presentation – http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/660 – which I’m embedding below. Serious food for thought
WebTools For Teachers 11/26/2008
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A very interesting concept, allowing a variety of media formats to be used in one show. Unfortunately when I browsed through the site I found many shows only used one media format (all text or all video, or just one audio file) instead of a variety. The text was large and centred, which made it look amateurish. It’s an important concept, but it needs refining.
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A good and visual summary of human communication
WebTools For Teachers 11/21/2008
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Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing – NYTimes.com
For parents and teachers – how kids are using social media
WebTools For Teachers 11/16/2008
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The first time I encountered Wikipedia, I saw it as a world brain, the Noosphere realized. This site explains how it works and how to be part of it. via Stephen Downes
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Do you blog? Do you find the Myers-Briggs personality categories interesting? Analyze your blog and get its Myers-Briggs type. I’m an INTJ, or rather, my blog is;-> via Stephen Downes
WebTools For Teachers 11/12/2008
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WebWorkerDaily » Archive How Twitter is a Communications Game Changer «
The soundbite has migrated from tv to text: “The more I see where social media and online communications is going, the more I realize how Twitter has transformed the landscape in both big and subtle ways.” via Twitter/Jean-Luc Raymond
WebTools For Teachers 11/07/2008
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What is the essential literacy in this information age? – Renee Hobbs describes why media literacy is needed by students, and more likely to engage them. via Stephen Downes
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About using social media professionally – “If people have negative experiences with using social media in their organizations–if people are behaving unprofessionally or inappropriately–I think that there’s something a lot deeper going on that social media is simply bringing to the surface.” via WorkLiteracy
WebTools For Teachers 11/05/2008
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The Tower and The Cloud | EDUCAUSE
Self interest alone should be driving educational institutions to move more strongly and quickly into web2.0 – “What appears to be emerging is industrial-scale computing — a standardized infrastructure for delivering computing power, network bandwidth, data storage and protection, and services. Comsumerization and industrialization beg the question “Is this the end of the middle?”; that is, what will be the role of “enterprise” IT in the future? Indeed, the bigger question is what will become of all of our intermediating institutions? This volume examines the impact of IT on higher education and on the IT organization in higher education.” via Stephen Downes
WebTools For Teachers 11/03/2008
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Learning technology teacher development blog
Video of Xtranormal cartoon-making tool that could be useful for ESL teachers and students.
Learning Living 