Learning - Educational Technologies

Latest News Archive April 2007

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.

Information Design: Beginners Blog Design   Today, blogs are one of the most effective and used online communication tools. Blogs help large and small companies communicate directly and transparently with their customers in a way that is direct as well as offering an exhaustion and confrontation pipe for topics ranging from politics... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 27

What Is RSS? News Syndication And Subscription Explained In Simple Words: 3' Min Video   Want to finally find out what RSS really is without needing to read a technical treatise? Tired of feeling left out of the RSS party? Interested in spending less than 5 minutes to understand what RSS is all about, why it is so great and why... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good - Lee Lefever -- April 26

Mobile Instant Messaging Meets Social Networking: Twitter - A Beginner's Guide   Twitter has created quite a buzz for itself in the first quarter of this year- managing to combine the ease of Instant Messaging and SMS with the reach and scope of social networking services. So what's all the buzz about? Essentially Twitter gives you the chance to... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- April 25

Learn How To Create, Publish And Promote Your Online Video: Make Internet TV   Online video is a huge growth sector, and is transforming the web from a static landscape of words and still-images into a whole new world of Internet TV. But while now is a great time to make your mark in this new and exciting field, it's... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Michael Pick -- April 23

Online Collaboration Tools: Cost-Effective Solutions For Online Teachers   Online collaboration tools and technologies are increasingly going to shape and model the communication, learning, working and social experiences we will be able to create in the near future. Photo credit: Andres Rodriguez New modes of learning, sharing and hooking up with partners, team-mates and colleagues will... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 22

Web 2.0 Takes On Colleges And Universities: The Dawn Of Education 2.0   Web 2.0 is changing the way colleges and universities interact with their students. Photo credit: Nikolay Okhitin In the shift from an intellectual economy of push, to one of pull, the evolving participatory media are making their impact felt . It is no longer enough to pump... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment John Thompson - Innovate -- April 20

Learning Paths, Collaboration Tools, Social Software: A Video Interview With Teemu Arina (Part Two)   Teemu Arina: "Key enemies? Well, nowadays when the world is so networked and so complex I think that those people who I might think are ideologically my enemies are really also potential people to cooperate with, so there is no meaning with having a conversation with... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good and Teemu Arina -- April 19

Online Collaboration For The Creative Industry - Rich-Media Annotation Is Here With Octopz   Online collaboration tools tend to focus on the sharing of presentations and corporate communications, leaving those working in the creative industry settling for second-best. But a new tool targeting designers, photographers, marketing creatives and even film-makers is about to change all of that. Making it easy to... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- April 17

The Future Of Learning Is Informal And Mobile: A Video Interview With Teemu Arina   What does the future of learning look like? Thanks to my good friend and senior corporate learning researcher and independent writer Jay Cross, I have had the good fortune of meeting Teemu Arina, a young Finnish educational scholar, with lots of good ideas, a fully working... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good and Teemu Arina -- April 12

Online Virtual Worlds: A Mini-Guide   "A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars. This habitation usually is represented in the form of two or three-dimensional graphical representations of humanoids (or other graphical or text-based avatars)." (Source: Wikipedia) A conference held in a virtual... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare -- April 10

Bye-Bye PDF: The New Coming e-Book Revolution - An Interview With Antonio Tombolini   The next ebook revolution is coming. One of the new e-ink based portable ebook readers After 15 years of associating the word e-book with some sort of PDF content designed and packaged for commercial delivery via the Internet (often with very low production quality and internal... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 4

Big Bill And The Free Software Alternatives Story: Video Mashup   Curious to learn how we got where we are in terms of personal computers and operating systems we use? This great video mashup, tells you in four-minutes, where we are coming from and what alternatives are out there, if you don't like what you see. ... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- April 3

Web Presentations: PowerPoint Meets Online Video Recordings With Zentation   A brand new service gives you an easy-to-use way to synchronize your online videos with PowerPoint slideshows, sharing the results online. This simple tool makes it a piece of cake to run your Google Video content side-by-side with PowerPoint presentations uploaded to Slideshare. Your audience gets... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- April 2

Online Photo Editing Tools: A Mini-Guide   Here is a fresh roundup of the most interesting digital image editing tools available online. These are all web-based services which allow anyone to upload, edit and retouch digital images and photograph with maximum simplicity and great ease of use. No more need to use Photoshop... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare -- April 1

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