Learning together…
New Youtube video tools make the wesbsite’s ressurces even more useful for learning purposes. Their own words: Video Annotations are a new way for you to add interactive commentary to your videos! Use them to: Add background information about the video. Create stories with multiple possibilities (viewers click to choose the next [...]
Big news: Adobe is giving something away! Might be just while in beta, they don;t really state the latter on their website. But they do say it is FREE. The first free Adobe product I just discovered is Acrobat Buzzword, an online collaborative text editor or word processor (think Google Docs). While way ahead of [...]
[still a draft] As time goes by, things always become easier to create and use, especially in social media things happen fast. No coding, WYSISWYG is the future of things, making it easier for user-generated content to be, yes, generated. We see a vast array of WYSIWYG applications out there and many of them are [...]
Good reference in this area of study, this article, Teaching and Learning With the Net Generation by Kassandra Barnes, Raymond C. Marateo, and S. Pixy Ferris show us the peculiarities of this generation of people that (including myself) have either grown up surrounded by technology or immersed themselves in it as possible. Take some time to browse other resources [...]
The Association of Virtual Worlds is a new initiative that focuses on Virtual Worlds research and also works like an interest group. They have created a community on Ning to facilitate interaction amongst those who share interest in MUVEs. They have some very good material about their main object of interest, including these ebooks that [...]
In this blog post Nicole invites Timothy Wright, a Ph.D. candidate from University of Notre Dame, to write a post about his research interest in Project Wonderland and Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) from a security and data storage perspective. His research project has driven him to come up with different “privileges” and status for users [...]
So many rumors around the new iPhone and the new iPhone software that are coming up soon. One of those interests me the most: the feature of downloading official applications to run natively on the iPhone. I am not talking about Web Apps which are basically web-based applications to which you link from your home [...]
