Learning together…
SMART Technologies has developed an interactive and collaborative table. Eye-candy design and interaction or is there more to it? Let’s see what it comes with and if it can retain attention besides initial interest (maybe one more possibility for the Hawthorne Effect to take place)…
Wikis offer a great opportunity for collaboration. Both as self-hosted or as a subscription service, there are many wiki engines to choose from and Wikimatrix makes it easier to compare them side-by-side. As says this entry from Wikipedia itself: “A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or [...]
There are many wiki engines out there, see Wikimatrix’s comparison tool. Some have corporate-geared features and storage space, others are more appealing to school educators and students. Some are engines for people willing to run them on their own servers, others are on a domain/subdomain basis. Out of all those, one seems to appeal to [...]
The Eee PC has been out since October 2007 but hasn’t gained much press coverage (at least I hadn’t heard about it until recently, and I ALWAYS try to stay in the loop of the latest gadgets and trends in technologies). The compact laptop is Asus’ attempt to compete in the market of small-sized computers [...]
Many companies, educators and students already use tools such as blogs, wikis, Google Docs, DimDim and other collaborative tools to co-create materials and learn collaboratively. However, these normally involve a small group of people that already know one another and are working together on a specific project. Crowdsourcing takes group collaboration to the next level [...]
Not forbidden (you are allowed to explore it), is the interactive virtual replica of the ancient Chinese Forbidden City that has been released by IBM after a few years of development. Great environment for the History buffs, teachers and students. You can download it here. Check out TechCrunch’s post on the subject here.
Interesting post about MMORPGs and language learning. There is no doubt that the social atmosphere of such games as World of Warcraft (referred to in the post above) offer a great opportunity for interaction with people from all kinds of linguistic and cultural backgrounds in a meaningful way, collaborating around a common goal where language [...]
I came across this interesting website called OneSentence which, differently from microblogs like Twitter that has users post so many meaningless updates most of the time, lets users share stories in once sentence only. Would be a nice experiment for a Reading class, for instance. Also visit Ficlets, which allows users to create stories collaboratively with [...]
