Learning - Educational Technologies

Latest News Archive July 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.

Training Teachers Is Our Society's Achille's Heel: The Demise Of Schools Of Education   Question: What big idea of 2006 will be extinct in 2036? Answer: Modern teacher training By 2036, the forms of teacher preparation that currently prevail in Western nations will have sunk into oblivion. We will have discarded schools of education, the pedagogies they teach, and the certification apparatus... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Peter Wood - Maercatornet -- July 31

Effective Learning: What I Saw Is Still What I Want - Intelligent, Smart, Learner-Centered Education   Seven years ago in Bangkok, during my participation at an international workshop on improving training quality, organized by the World Bank Institute, I hand-wrote the following: "We are light-years away from what I would call effective training or education." Photo credit: Jacob Wackerhousen I had just been out of... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 29

Visual Similarity Search Engine Finds Images According To Your Specs   Xcavator is a new type of search engine which utilizes visual clues that you provide to identify and extract similar pictures from large groups of digital images. Xcavator intro and quick tour Similar to another existing Flickr visual search tool called Retrievr, which allows you to make... Link | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies Robin Good -- July 28

Helping Others See Beyond The Surface, Makes Blogs True Digital Weapons Of Mind Change   Changing other people's minds, launching small and large Calls To Action, influencing and persuading others, providing insightful tools and pointers to facilitate self-discovery and personal understanding: these are the most powerful applications that individuals, small online publishers and passionate researchers can make of blogs today. Helping... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good and John Blossom - Shore -- July 27

Watch TV Back Home And Call Any Phone Number Around The World With The New Sightspeed 5   Today Sightspeed will release a new version of its excellent video conferencing software, which not only allows PC, Mac and Linux-based users to communicate with video and audio for free, (paid accounts get a lot more for next to nothing) and also makes it now possible... Link | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies Robin Good -- July 26

Accessible Search By Google Helps Blind Users Find What They Are Looking For   Google Accessible Search is designed to help the visually challenged find the most relevant, useful and comprehensive information, as quickly as possible. More broadly, Google defines accessible websites and pages as content that the blind and visually challenged can use and consume using standard online web... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 26

Blog Search Engine Technorati Releases Major Upgrade And New Features   Technorati product manager Liz Dunn walks you through some of the most interesting key new features in the new Technorati After many months of testing, frustrating feedback and comments from users, Technorati, the three year old blog search engine, released a few hours ago a new... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Robin Good -- July 25

Video Display Interface Of The Future Projects Images Into Thin Air   Photo credit: KRON 4 News San Francisco San Francisco Technology Reporter Gabriel Slate looks at this new way to display video on air. This new technology requires no screens, monitors or other physical surfaces to be able to project and display its images. "Heliodisplay images are not holographic... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Robin Good -- July 24

Innovation Must Be User-Centric, Shareable: Von Hippel's Democratized Innovation Shows The Road   It is becoming progressively easier for many users to get precisely what they want by designing it for themselves. Users that innovate can develop exactly what they want, rather than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect ) agents. Moreover, individual users do... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Eric Von Hippel - Democratizing Innovation -- July 22

Online Video Interview Recorder: When?   While Google Video has just released a brand new feature which allows you to address via a standard URL any specific point inside a video (thanks Google for this - please give us next a way to also point to a video "segment"), I remain yet... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 21

Record And Publish Your Video Announcements Online: Hellodeo   If you are looking for a great simple free tool, that allows you to record your own video and publish it online, your search is over: Hellodeo allows you to record straight from your webcam, camcorder or from any other video signal you have incoming into... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 18

Teaching And Learning Online: Meeting Learners In Their Natural Cyber-Habitat   "Teaching and learning are changing with the Internet. Students are by and large vastly more digitally literate than many of their instructors. This is a generation that was born to and came of age online. The Internet and technology, in many cases, appears second nature for... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Dennis Dunleavy - Student Matters -- July 17

What Is A Blog? More Video Remixes And How-To   What is a blog? Video Remixes from TheWeblogProject - remixes edited on Jumpcut.com What is a blog? Here is a new mini-compilation (see previous one) of great video remixes that I and my micro video-editing team have created for TheWeblogProject. These have all been edited and produced... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Robin Good -- July 15

News Aggregation Is Online Independent Publishers Natural Next Step   If you have mastered the blogging paradigm, have made your blog an authority and a reliable source of information, commentary or news in your selected field(/s) of interest, it is about time to "scale yourself up" - Work Less and Look More At The Bigger Picture... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 13

User Interfaces: What Visual Future On Your Computer Desktops?   Want to get a glimpse of what your future computer desktop may look like and operate? Check this video: University of Toronto student Anand Agarawala has reimagined the computer desktop in a way that reflects the "fuzzy" way we deal with information, taking its inspiration from the... Link | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies Jeremiah McNichols - Thinking in Pictures -- July 8

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