Learning - Educational Technologies

Latest News Archive April 2006

E-learning, workflow learning, just-in-time learning, virtual classrooms and the world of education at a distance. Educational technologies are the new frontier for ay instructional designer: Blogs, RSS, wikis, collaboration systems, e-learning tools, presentation software, simulation tools, real-time videoconferencing, online classrooms.

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 50   Broadcast your personal video and audio clips on your website Browser-based image editor enables users to edit images online with no need for plugin Advertising system allows you to choose which ads you want to put onto your website Photo credit: Rakuten Conferencing software enables you to share... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- April 30

Personal Knowledge Management Tools Ready For Enterprise Use   Personal knowledge management is making strong inroads into enterprise environments where individual users can be motivated to publish quality (commercial) information effectively and with the ease that "bloggers" enjoy. Photo credit: Dusan Jankovic The recent SIIA Brown Bag Lunch Series panel on personal knowledge management highlighted tools from... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- April 26

Broadcast Yourself Live From Your Own Web Page: Stickam Is Here   Stickam is a new unique communication and online collaboration widget that can be embedded into any web page. It allows to publish audio and video clips, images, as well as to interact in real-time with other people via text chat and video conferencing. Completely web-based, this new,... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 25

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 49   Remote access to your PC from anywhere via mobile phone Podcast search engine allows creation and sharing of channels Server monitoring service makes it easy and free to track server status Desktop music player tracks and reports your music preferences Map creation service allows personal life events documentation Spreadsheet hosting editing... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare -- April 23

Grassroots Collaborative Online Video Editing: TheWeblogProject Open-Source Movie Opens Up To Everyone For Remixing   The time has finally arrived to let everyone join in to the next phase of TheWeblogProject: grassroots online video editing and remixing. If you have yet not heard about it, TheWeblogProject is my own independent, open-source online movie dedicated to evangelize and explain what blogs... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 21

Digg-In-A-Box? Automatic News Filtering And Aggregation? Newsmastering Engines Keep Growing: reBlogger Is Next   While the Wall Street Journal ponders whether bloggers can really make money or not (just like asking in the '70s whether a DJ could make money), those truly interested in developing a more comprehensive picture of the effective opportunity available to them, should look a bit... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 19

The Academic Search Engine From Microsoft: Windows Live Academic   A new, Microsoft-based, online search engine focused on academic subjects is now live. Photo credit: Vladislav Gansovsky Called Windows Live Academic, it currently indexes content related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related topics (with more than 6 million records from approximately 4300 journals and 2000... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- April 17

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 48   Where online collaboration starts and where individual isolated applications end is going to become a next to invisible borderline, as most applications are gradually drifting toward the integration of some form of collaborative features. Photo credit: M. Brozek Sharing, is becoming an essential asset for those who... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare -- April 16

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 47   New media, Web 2.0, online applications, web-based services, mobile applications and online collaboration tools are all part of this new basket full of gems I have prepared for you for another great technology-rich Sharewood Picnic. The Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of the best, most... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare -- April 9

Custom Book Publishing For The Academic World: SafariU   Custom book publishing is already a reality. The new revamped offering from O'Reilly Media shows that the educational market too is ready for disintermediating large publisher while giving in to deep customization and teacher-driven content selection. Photo credit: Andriy Doriy Custom textbook publishing is next. In this... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment John Blossom and Robin Good - Shore -- April 7

Experiential Learning Vs.Traditional Schooling: John Taylor Gatto's Educational Ideas Still Worth A Good Look?   We live in a time of great school crisis. Our children rank at the bottom of nineteen industrial nations in reading, writing and arithmetic. At the very bottom. The world's narcotic economy is based upon our own consumption of the commodity, if we didn't buy so... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment John Taylor Gatto - John Taylor Gatto -- April 3

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 46   New media tools and services are blooming like never before. Here is a new basket full of new media gems for another great technology-rich Sharewood Picnic. The Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of the best, most interesting new media tools, resources and pointers I have... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- April 2

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