Learning - Educational Technologies

Latest News Archive June 2008

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.

Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies And Web Services - Sharewood Picnic Jun30 08   In this round of cool online collaboration tools Robin and I have this time picked services to send large giga-sized files online without worrying about how big they are, remote control any PC via your instant messenger, do free VoIP calls, and more. Photo credit: Vacuum3d Here the... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Robin Good -- June 30

Music Should Be Shared: Joss Stone   Joss Stone, a music artist who won a Grammy Award last year, is another one of the many pop stars who is most clearly voicing her support and open-minded approach toward music sharing, P2P and the Internet. Photo credit: (c) Joss Stone Joss Stone, if you don't... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Robin Good -- June 28

Create An Online Interactive Multimedia Magazine From Any Document With Calameo   If you want to create a slick, highly visual, interactive magazine to publish and distribute online, Calameo, has recently launched a web-based service that allows one-click conversion of all most popular document formats into highly customizable and very attractive full-screen flip-page magazines. So, whether you have a... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Robin Good -- June 24

Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies And Web Services - Sharewood Picnic Jun23 08   Online collaborations tools keep offering new and improved features to work, share and present with other people at a distance. I am picking up this time not only the latest but also a few of those cool tools that while launched a while ago, may not... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Nicolo' Canali De Rossi -- June 23

Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media: An Opinionated Digest by George Siemens - June 21 08   Social media strategies for the web, scanning information, learning via dialogue and participation, how micropublishers manage their information and publishing workflow are just some of the interesting topics that are included in this juicy weekly digest. Photo credit: Vasyl Yakobchuk But there is more: social network usage,... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link George Siemens - eLearnSpace -- June 21

Cool Designer's Tools: Digital Design Collection   Looking for some cool online design tools? Thanks to an ongoing collaboration with Italian stylish and avant-garde looking magazine 7thFloor, I had recently put together for the Milan "Design week" a selection of cool design tools for seven types of designers, which was published on their... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Robin Good -- June 20

Web-Based Mind-Mapping: Outline, Plan and Brainstorm Ideas Together With MindMeister   If you are looking to find an effective way to collaborate, brainstorm, visualize and plan ideas collaboratively online, much beyond what voice and text chat can do, it is the time you give a good try to the mind-mapping experience. A roles and responsibilities mindmap collaborative mindmap... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Robin Good -- June 17

Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies And Web Services - Sharewood Picnic Jun16 08   Want to collaborate online in real-time? Here some cool collaboration tools to use that can help you have free web-conferencing meetings, share your screen, have VoIP conversations, instant message directly with your website visitors, and more. Too good to be true? Check out the full list... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Nicolo' Canali De Rossi -- June 16

How To Convert .MOD Video Files To MPEG-2 On Mac And PCs   Need to play back and edit .MOD video files? If you have just got a new camcorder and are killing yourself to understand how to read, convert and import properly those damn .MOD video files, I think have got some solutions for you. I myself have... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Robin Good -- June 12

Social Design: What Is It? What Should You Use It For?   What is social design? What are the traits that make designing for the social interaction different from other forms of design? What are the end results that one wants to achieve by using a social design approach and methodology? Photo credit: Joshua Porter Joshua Porter, social media analyst... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Joshua Porter - Bokardo -- June 11

Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies And Web Services - Sharewood Picnic Jun10 08   The best, coolest and newest online collaboration tools are back again with a new basket full of goodies personally selected for you by Robin Good and me, Nico Canali De Rossi. In this issue we have selected new tools for video conferencing, collaborative project management, VoIP,... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Nicolo' Canali De Rossi -- June 10

Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media: An Opinionated Digest by George Siemens - June 9 08   Making sense of new technologies and media is becoming one of the essential, future navigation skills. As everyone else is busy looking at the latest web application, what I see increasingly lacking, especially outside of the academic world, is the time and true interest to explore,... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link George Siemens - eLearnspace Blog -- June 9

Social Network Design: The Network Is A Living System, Design It As Such   What are the key requirements for social software to create social environments and communities that can become self-sustainable? Ken Thompson, high performance teams expert and author of the Bioteaming Manifesto, Bioteams and The Networked Enterprise, suggests that social software designers should look in the principles that... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Ken Thompson - Bioteams -- June 7

Marketing 2.0: A Distributed Marketing Approach For Web Services And Applications   With the advent of Web 2.0 and the explosion in the number of web-based services that has ensued, we have seen hundreds of new applications and tools become available without any sign of slowdown yet. Thanks to cheaper technology, open APIs, and the ease with which... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Robin Good -- June 5

Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies And Web Services - Sharewood Picnic Jun03 08   Ready to add some new cool stuff to your online collaboration toolkit? Need to set up a video conference, manage projects, schedule a meeting or share big files and videos? Here is another set of ready-to-use online collaboration tools that make it easy to do so... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Nicolo' Canali De Rossi -- June 3

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