Archive for May, 2008

Spam on my blog

Sorry if it takes a while for me to approve your comments, guys. I’ve been getting so much spam that it takes a while to go through them and sort out the good comments you guys leave. I love them all. It feels great to be able to contribute to some sort of open discussion [...]

Social Media Assessment and Learner Progress Tracking

Something that has bothered me is that, while the adoption of social media (Web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis, social networks and so on) depends on a paradigm shift and require a new way of thinking “learning”, how can we assess learner progress in a modality of tools in which user-generated content can be so [...]

Gliffy – an Online Alternative to Microsoft Visio for Flowcharting

Well, everyone is talking about Gliffy and I don;t want to be redundant, but I have to give my opinion about it as well. The program lets users collaborate on flowcharts and diagrams online. This is a very good and free (for public documents) alternative to desktop diagramming tools such as Microsoft Visio, OmniGraffle, FreeMind [...]

WiiMote and World of Warcraft

Innovation is the key. Take a look at how these guys innovate with the Wiimote to use gestures to control World of Warcraft. The future of learning is definitely more “interactive”, more “immersive”…. I don’t know if this was his idea, but this guy (I don’t know his name) gives a good explanation of how [...]

Free Online Website Builders (WYSIWYG)

New technologies have made it easy for anyone to be a content author. The webmaster no longer has to be a highly specialized HTML coder. So, if you don’t have much experience in creating websites and need a What You See Is What You Get website creator, here is a list that might help:   [...]

Web 2.0 in Education

There is so much controversy over the term Web 2.0. Some people state that the digits “2.0″ determine a version, and that the Web is continuously evolving without need for a “label”. They claim that the assertion that Web 2.0 is more user-centered and interactive than Web 1.0 is not true. While new technologies (e.g. [...]

VirtuED – Using Wonderland to Promote Learning

This is a great project and here is a post on their efforts to establish Wonderland as a learning tool. Keep up the good work guys!

How NOT to teach in Second Life

An interesting interview with Milosun Czervik on the use of Second Life for teaching and how most people just replicate flawed real-life environments and approaches when using MUVEs for learning. Interview conducted by Kevin Lim.

Oui, Wii…

I finally found at Wii at Target today. I had visited both a Target and a BestBuy yesterday (Saturday) and they said they’d have it this morning, which  I thought was weird for them to get new shipment on a Sunday. Anyway, I don’t know how shipping really works in these retail stores but apparently many [...]

Bike Flying over the Golden Gate Bridge

Mike shows us an interesting way of making exercising more fun and interactive. He created a bike that communicates to Google Earth by using the Sun SPOT device created by Sun Microsystems.