Learning together…
I always rant on and on about buzzwords in Education and how many people just use meaningless words brought to them by a fad or they try to create it themselves. I came across this interesting, funny list of those true definitions of some buzzwords specifically for those educators that work in the classroom setting: http://www.illinoisloop.org/buzzwords.html
It is easy to create interactive and attractive timelines. Sharing them is extremely easy, in Web 2.0 style with tools such as: TimeToast TimeRime I understand and am totally fascinated with the idea of sharing content online (quality user-generated content) and the big shift this brings to learning. However, I see college students using this [...]
Many people complain about Second Life’s drain on processor performance. Linden Labs created this wiki page with alternative Second Life viewers that might be of interest to those trying to experiment with Second Life. Some of them claim offer a cleaner, easier to navigate user interface. I am experimenting with some right now and will [...]
Grockit is definitely mixing traditional social networking with the power of Massively Multiplayer Online gaming (MMO). Learners study for tests such as GMAT in a live, competitive and collaborative environment as they earn and give points for good performance that are collected as they move to different levels of “expertise” in the community. Players can [...]
A while back I thought of creating a blog to review only educational apps for the iPhone. Suddenly I noticed that not only did just a few developers try to create educational apps but also the quality of those that are there isn’t what you’d expect… So, I’m still considering reviewing a few iPhone apps [...]
What really interests me here is the alternative approach to explaining Google’s new technologically-advanced Web browser that has multiple process running at the same time. They ingeniously used a well-written comic to explain the somewhat complex advances of the new browser. Very interesting piece of a more informal learning approach.
