Learning - Educational Technologies

Latest News Archive December 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.

Video Education: Free Online Learning Resources Mini-Guide   2006 proved itself to be the year of online video, and as the medium has evolved more and more free online resources have become readily available for those willing to look for them. As universities get wise to the Open Courseware concept, and independent video producers... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- December 29

Corporate Newsmastering And OPML Reading Lists: The BlogBridge RSS Feed Library - Video Review   For corporate newsmasters OPML reading lists are an excellent way of gathering and custom-distributing thematic collections of RSS Feeds within the organization. By being able to effectively aggregate, organize, label, and provide selected access to thematic RSS feeds collections, corporate digital information librarians are now given... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- December 28

Alternate Reality Games: Daily Narratives Turn Into Interactive Cross-Media Games (Part I)   What is an ARG? What if reality were different? What if you suddenly discovered not just different customs but different rules, different rewards, wholly different aspirations - a reality in which everyday occurences were not exactly what you thought, in which certain activities suddenly took on... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment The IGDA Alternate Reality Games SIG - IGDA -- December 22

How The Web Is Transforming Itself: Summary and Outlook - Part VII   "During the last few years, new forms of content generation and organisation on the World Wide Web have emerged. Services such as blogs, wikis and podcasting give users the opportunity to become authors and to express themselves. For the first time, even users lacking the knowledge... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Josef Kolbitsch and Hermann Maurer - Journal of Universal Computer Science -- December 15

Remix-Based Read/Write Culture Vs. The Read-Only Choke-Hold: Lawrence Lessig Video Highlights   The Read/Write culture of the remix and mash up are reshaping the web as we know it. Photo credit: Jonan Basterra But both continue to be threatened by those who would maintain an economic choke-hold on creativity. For while smart start-ups and media producers are backing the... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Lawrence Lessig and Michael Pick -- December 14

Online Collaboration And SOHO Web Conferencing: Acrobat Connect Is The New Reference   Yesterday, Adobe officially announced the release of the new Adobe Acrobat 8 which carries now within itself the fertile seed of easy-to-use real-time online collaboration for just about everyone. The new Acrobat Connect not only facilitates instantaneous document exchange and review but makes web conferencing and... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 7

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