Archive for August, 2009

This Week’s Twitter Updates

Brook’s Law. Isn’t it true? http://bit.ly/Z2r1X # I’m very pleased with Sygic GPS app for the iPhone so far. Very accurate! Better reviews than TomTom and Navigon and cheaper too! # Why don’t teens tweet? Survey. Again, don’t take the NetGeners, Millennials stuff at face value! http://bit.ly/hExFJ # Ideas represented on index cards. Good blog [...]

Open Books and TextBooks Online, Free

Taking after the movement of open source (free – as in freedom) software development, knowledge and information has also been “open sourced” (and crowdsourced) as new Web technologies allow for flexibility and ease of online collaboration in generating content. Textbooks are now on the same route and here are a few interesting resources for those [...]

Augmented Reality and Learning

The dawn of augmented reality on a consumer level presents many possibilities for marketing, tourism and virtually any area of expertise. But what would be its impact in Education and learning in general? Would the possibility of adding a layer of information and rich media atop an individual’s view of the world via his/her mobile [...]

SCVNGR – Build Scavenger Hunts and Augmented Reality Games

SCVNGR is a fantastic online scavenger hunt suite for those who like to play AND build them. Its SCVNGR Hunt Builder offers all you need to create and manage your scavenger hunts (public or private), including a very easy to use “Clue Creator” that uses a Google Maps mashup to let you pin point the [...]

Helen Keller and a Vintage Video Lesson on a Special Case of Language Acquisition

Well, this is also a lesson on perseverance, phonetics, Special Education (that is really special), pronunciation, passion for teaching, passion for learning and thinking outside the box… oh and many more things… Most of us in Education have heard of Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller. This is a rare opportunity to see for yourself some [...]

eLearning Project Management – a Quick Video Overview

This is a well done short video overview of elements of project management geared toward eLearning projects. Simple and straight to the point… (by Facilitador eLearning Solutions)

This Week’s Twitter Updates

Find out what the Web has tonsay about you w/ Personas (from MIT) http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html # Everyone has to try MIT's Personas Web app. Type your name in there and read the information about YOU at the bottom: http://personas.me … # Moby-Dick on Twitter? interesting… http://bit.ly/Iis5Y # Alice in Wonderland being told on Twitter for you [...]

Entire Novels on Twitter – Starting with Moby-Dick

Dan Coulter created a robotic feed that tweeted automatically 140 characters from Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick every hour. This is an interesting concept that remind me of when novels used to popularly come in “episodes” on newspapers with cliffhangers making the readers “stay tuned for scenes of the next episode”… More detail on the story [...]

Social Media Revolution – Evolution

Let’s think about the impact these emerging technologies can have on Education, on learning, on other fields (not just marketing)… not sure “revolution” is the term, but definitely an “evolution” of the way people communicate. Technology is more than ever shortening distances, including the distance between learners and content, subject matter experts AND, maybe more [...]

Essential iPhone Apps for Students and Educators

MacWorld published the “Ten Essential Back to School iPhone Apps”. While they chose very good apps, they might have left out a few other interesting apps as well. A possible improvement on the “top X apps for students” post idea would be to have different school levels (Pre-school, Middle School, High School, Higher Ed., etc.) [...]