Learning - Educational Technologies - Articles Archive
from July 18, 2008 to June 11, 2008

Peer-to-peer is an emergent philosophy and way of working, collaborating and creating wealth among human beings. The peer to peer philosophy is based on living principles that are quite different from those that you may have been educated with but which in many ways may feel ... read more

What are media going to be like in the years ahead? What are the key changes that will transform them? Which the key driving forces will be behind such changes? To these questions, the work of Ross Dawson and of the Future of Media Summit are ... read more

Chris Brogan is a maven when it comes to social media. He is one of the new rising stars of the independent, small media publishing world. On who has really gone out of his way to evangelize, share, listen and give out tons of great advice ... read more

Online collaboration tools, the ones that help you videoconference, screen-share, co-browse or analyze documents with your distributed team are back. Robin and I have pulled together eight more new collaboration tools to manage your on going projects online, to co-browse with people while chatting with them, ... read more

If you look at the fast changing media and at new emerging technologies you may be endlessly enchanted by the new ideas, capabilities and traits that each one integrates. At the same time, the more you closely follow such change without taking critical and analytical distance ... read more

Ross Dawson's yearly Future of Media Summit event is fast approaching (two locations: Silicon Valley and Sidney, Australia), and as in the past, it is being anticipated by the release of a few articles and a key report that set the stage and vision for our ... read more

Looking for online collaboration tools? Whether you need to share your very large files with someone else, manage your on-going projects with your team, or simply collaboratively sketch and annotate together the same diagram, we have got some interesting tools for you to check out. Here the ... read more

Making sense of the future of technologies emerging is more than often tightly connected to deeply understanding what has happened before. Unless you know where you are coming from, it is difficult to guess where you will be arriving next. This is why I value and ... read more

Citrix has just released version 4 of GoToMeeting (and ver.2 of GoToWebinar) which adds to an already outstanding screen-sharing tool, full 100% Mac compatibility and integrated VoIP, among some other smaller new features. With this release GoToMeeting strengthens its position as a the leading and best ... read more

I shot the video interview that follows for the Frontiers of Interaction conference which took place yesterday in Turin, Italy. Superbly organized by Leandro Agrò and Matteo Penzo, the sold out event brought together high prestige names like sci-fi writer and visionary Bruce Sterling, Elizabeth Churchill ... read more

Sense-making is the extraordinary new unconscious effort the Internet avant-garde has moved into. After an initial phase of discovery, experimentation and pure exploration, web publishers, bloggers and educators are gradually turning their efforts into looking at what they have learned and making it accessible to everyone. This ... read more

In this round of cool online collaboration tools Robin and I have this time picked services to send large giga-sized files online without worrying about how big they are, remote control any PC via your instant messenger, do free VoIP calls, and more. Here the online collaboration ... read more

Joss Stone, a music artist who won a Grammy Award last year, is another one of the many pop stars who is most clearly voicing her support and open-minded approach toward music sharing, P2P and the Internet. Joss Stone, if you don't know her, is an ... read more

If you want to create a slick, highly visual, interactive magazine to publish and distribute online, Calameo, has recently launched a web-based service that allows one-click conversion of all most popular document formats into highly customizable and very attractive full-screen flip-page magazines. So, whether you have a ... read more

Online collaborations tools keep offering new and improved features to work, share and present with other people at a distance. I am picking up this time not only the latest but also a few of those cool tools that while launched a while ago, may not ... read more

Social media strategies for the web, scanning information, learning via dialogue and participation, how micropublishers manage their information and publishing workflow are just some of the interesting topics that are included in this juicy weekly digest. But there is more: social network usage, learning 2.0, overcoming ... read more

Looking for some cool online design tools? Thanks to an ongoing collaboration with Italian stylish and avant-garde looking magazine 7thFloor, I had recently put together for the Milan "Design week" a selection of cool design tools for seven types of designers, which was published on their ... read more

If you are looking to find an effective way to collaborate, brainstorm, visualize and plan ideas collaboratively online, much beyond what voice and text chat can do, it is the time you give a good try to the mind mapping experience. Thanks to unforgettable MasterNewMedia editor Antonella ... read more

Want to collaborate online in real-time? Here some cool collaboration tools to use that can help you have free web-conferencing meetings, share your screen, have VoIP conversations, instant message directly with your website visitors, and more. Too good to be true? Check out the full list ... read more

What is social design? What are the traits that make designing for the social interaction different from other forms of design? What are the end results that one wants to achieve by using a social design approach and methodology? Joshua Porter, social media analyst and web designer, ... read more