February 23, 2004
Free Skype Goes Conferencing!
Up to 5 people can now Skype together from anywhere in the world. A few minutes ago Skype announced the world's first peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet telephony conference calling feature, allowing up to five friends to talk with each other simultaneously, regardless of geography. Skype installs quickly and intuitively, allowing people to use their Internet-connected PC to make and receive free, high-quality phone calls. Like previous versions, the latest offering is free to download and the calls are unmetered and unlimited. Skype is currently offered in 15 languages and has nearly 3 million users from more than 165 countries.
October 11, 2008
How long can we continue to add technology to teaching and learning before we fundamentally reconsider the entire process, including the spaces and structures of learning? Photo credit: Idaefix If you have not yet realized it, smart phones and other intelligent mobile devices are invisibly becoming the prime ...read more
October 8, 2008
Beyond file-sharing, peer-to-peer is an alternative way of looking at work, live and the way we make money. Although mainstream media coverage of P2P has mostly focused its spotlights on the on-going debate around file-sharing and pirated media (music, movies, games), the social, economic, and political ...read more
October 6, 2008
Do you need to show to your distant teammates a set of images or a PowerPoint presentation right from your computer desktop? Do you want to train your classroom at a distance by inviting your students to watch what you are doing live on your PC? ...read more
October 5, 2008
If you are looking for web-based collaboration tools to manage your team projects, share your screen with other people or have web-conferencing sessions, I have picked some really cool new online collaboration apps for this issue of the Sharewood Guide. Photo credit: Erik Reis Here the full set ...read more
October 4, 2008
How do you know whether the information you are searching for online has been verified and comes from reliable sources? Are you getting into the mass-media habit of taking for granted whatever you read online? Is your critical evaluation attitude miserably fading? Photo credit: Stephen Downes George Siemens, ...read more
September 27, 2008
Is virtual learning better than classroom face-to-face instruction? Are the benefits for learning at a distance as effective as those obtainable from a traditional in-class curriculum? Tough to say. Different researchers report different experiences and given sometimes the shallowness of their investigation or the limited numbers ...read more
