Learning - Educational Technologies - Articles Archive
from January 21, 2008 to December 11, 2007

Video conferencing, instant messaging and real-time file-sharing and collaboration. These the three online collaboration areas for which I have some new tools to have you test out. You can have video conferences with up to ten people, instant message your team members right from within Firefox ... read more

Do you really know how Google performs its search "magic" and how it weighs your site inside search results? Are video tutorials the next wave? Is social networking going to be as relevant and impactful also inside the education universe? On these, and other more interesting technology-related ... read more

When communicating inside a virtual distributed team, things are not as clear and evident as when you operate in traditional physical environments. Virtual teams are somewhat more sensitive to bad or improper use of communication tools and methods as such teams pivot their key abilities specifically ... read more

In this new selection of online collaboration tools I have selected for you a set of cool tools. If you need to share your screen with a remote colleague with max ease and at zero cost, if you want to call via the Internet using VoIP ... read more

In the near future, are you going to interact with computers without using a keyboard and mouse? Do you know you can get into the video publishing frenzy with just a cool $120 camcorder? How about mobile phone projectors, have you yet seen one of these? ... read more

Find out in less than 3 minutes what online photo sharing is all about. Lee and Sachi Lefever have done it again as they have just published a new short and cool video clip explaining to the non-tech crowd what online photo sharing is, why you'd ... read more

What makes great teams be such? Is it a matter of coincidental matters that some teams perform systematically above average or being a high performance team is due to specific traits of those that make the team up? Ken Thompson, with whom I have co-authored the Bioteaming ... read more

Collaboration tools is going to soon become a misnomer. The more mainstream, standard office applications and productivity tools start adding collaboration facilities to their apps the more collaboration will become part of what is expected by any digital work tool. This Sharewood Picnic contains a new collection ... read more

As 2008 will bring greater focus on professional online publishing for Master New Media, here is the second part of my anticipations and predictions for this new year that has just started. In this second part: Online Collaboration Tools Mobile Mobile Live Video Online Marketing P2P Conversational Tools - Microblogging Widgets OpenID Off-line Web-based Applications X-Events ... read more

Online professional independent publishers rejoyce! 2008 promises to be a year of great innovation for everyone publishing online as opportunities to expand or start your own micro publishing company will only increase. New powerful publishing and content distribution tools will make their debut in 2008 while ... read more

If you are on the lookout for some new useful tools that can help you better manage your distributed virtual room or your vacationing class of students, here is Master New Media new weekly set of cool online collaboration tools that you may have recently missed ... read more

What to expect from the world of new media technology for 2008? Health, economy and alternative energy blogger Sepp Hasslberger, contributes his personal view on some of the major trends he sees coming down the line when it comes to new media, search engines, and tacit ... read more

Online collaboration tools are sprouting like mushrooms and it has become difficult for even the most tech savvy bloggers to keep up with all the new tools and new releases. If you don't already know it, one site where I and my team keep you posted ... read more

Facebook and the use of social media in the enterprise, user-generated content, newly reported UGC production trends, mobile learning platforms and the evolution of personal publishing are among some of the insightful selections that George Siemens has picked for you this week. In this weekly digest, George ... read more

A lot has been written and speculated about Google Knol during this past week, but besides the big hoopla and excitement for the new Google announcement, few have stopped to reflect upon the consequences, opportunities and issues that may arise from the introduction of this new ... read more

Reflecting upon the true nature of the new set of media we have created around us is probably one of the most important activities anyone involved in media communication should engage with from time to time. I must be thankful for taking me again onto this intellectual ... read more

Interested in learning about the newest web presentation, visual communication and online collaboration tools? Robin Good' Sharewood Picnic is back again, bringing you the best and most interesting tools you probably haven't heard about every single week. After a few months of rest, here it comes again ... read more

Google Knol, Wikipedia, Third Places, Yale Online, Google, Rogers Wireless and the relevance of online information presentation design are all under the "making sense" radar of George Siemens weekly digest. If you need not to miss media and technology announcements that may have a direct impact on ... read more

How often do you find yourself annoyed by the fact someone is suddenly ringing you on Skype as if it was the equivalent of a normal phone? Do you hesitate on whether to hang-up or erupt verbally as you answer the unknown calling party? Well, if this ... read more

Do you like GoToMeeting impressive screen-sharing capabilities but not its $49/month price tag? Are you on Windows? ConferencingNow offers right now what appears to be a full 100% GoToMeeting clone allowing you to have free online screen-sharing meeting with up to ten attendees at absolutely zero ... read more