Edutaining Airline Safety Videos
Dying on a plane crash is one of my nightmares. I am afraid of flying on commercial aircrafts, it’s tense. So, why not catch my attention in that sweaty-palm moment with a fun little...
Author: enzofsilva
Learn Anything in Real Courses – For Free Or For a Fee
I’m always looking at/for new ways to learn things or for a flexible way to learn things my way. One thing I am always looking out for is informal learning opportunities, be it in the...
Live and Recorded Demos and Screensharing from iOS to Desktop
I am a gadget, app hoarder. I always get excited when a new app solves a problem at work or in life in general that has no-one was able to solve before. I’ve often...
Skype in the Classroom
Skype has changed the way I communicate with my family (who lives in Brazil). When I was dating my wife long-distance, in between international trips to see each other, we communicated via instant messaging...
Mowing the Lawn Can Help with Productivity
Proven fact: mowing the lawn can make you focus on what matter and increase productivity. Well, maybe the research might not point to mowing the lawn exactly but activities that have nothing to do...
[INFOGRAPHIC] – Gamers Get Girls – A Comparison Between Dating Sites and Games
Infographics are a relatively new fad. But a good fad: what’s not to like about just the right amount of graphics coupled with just the right amount of textual information and data, all wrapped...
Reusable and Shareable Learning Objects
When we normally think of reusable learning objects we think of reusing them in other traditional learning settings, be it a chapter of a student manual or a video used in a different e-learning...
I Pledge to Unattend Conferences from Now on
I just came back from an amazing conference with amazing speakers, meet-ups, panels, free food and drinks, crazy people on the streets, advertisement anywhere (people’s bodies, trucks, pedicabs, projected on walls), forward thinking people...
The end of assessment as we know it
“The concept of a job is going away” (Bersin, 2012) and so should the concept of assessment. At least assessment as we know it. Or the assessment forms that we dearly esteem. The truth...
The Case for App Stores
Apple has changed the way consumers expect to get access to applications, especially mobile applications, with the creation of its iOS App Store and then the Mac App Store. There are several advantages for...
