Learning together…
Too much information out there to keep up with… What about creating your own Web Apps (browser-based applications) for your most visited websites? On Windows, use Mozilla’s Prism. Click “download Prism for Windows on the following page and follow the instructions. For Mac OSX, use Fluid, which works in a similar fashion to Prism but [...]
I understand crowdsourcing courses, lessons and other eLearning-related material can be a tough call for any sector (corporate, K12, etc.). But has anyone had any experience crowdsourcing the development of learning experiences from a user feedback perspective at least? One question could be how is crowdsourcing feedback different from simply putting a feedback button on [...]
I don’t have a tablet PC or a drawing board (electronic or not). I guess I could create wireframes on basic computer tools like Pencil even using the highlight tools on Microsoft PowerPoint, for instance. But one tool I discovered recently makes it much easier to come up with mockups very quickly: Balsamiq Mockups. The [...]
Twitter is a phenomenon that keeps growing in popularity. With new developers creating tools to integrate with it, Twitter keeps getting new features everyday and extra data portability functionality… Twitter also has many look-alikes out there. Does anyone see advantages to Twitter “clones” such as Rejaw and YouAre, and white label or self-hosted solutions ShoutEm and Laconi.ca? Especially for academic institutions [...]
Of course learning languages can be both fun and challenging. Still in Brazil (in my teenage days) I learned English mostly by listening to my favorite artists, translating their music and making up dialogs in my mind while taking a shower or walking down the street… yes, that crazy… I also used to go on [...]
