Archive for the ‘eLearning 2.0’ Category

Free and Open Source Project Management Resources (on your own server)

There seem to be many free desktop applications for project management out there. Funny enough, most of the ones I encounter seem to claim they are also “open source”. The average user normally doesn’t care whether a product is open source or not since they won’t be developers after all. But it is good to [...]

Did You Know 4.0

All right… annoying version number aside, this is an interesting video similar to Shift Happens and other “trendy” videos out there about how social media and the Web are becoming even more important as more and more people get access to these technologies. And, well, of course, how knowledge is becoming less of an authoritative [...]

Record Screencasts and Demos with no Downloads

It is nice not to have to download any programs if you want to record simple screencasts and demos (and in SIMPLE steps) of your computer screen. Here is an good review of ScreenToaster by Jane Hart. What is even better is not to have to create yet a new username and password for yet [...]

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.) [...]

Waze, the Driver-generated GPS – Crowdsourcing Navigation – Free GPS for the iPhone

Yeah, the concept of crowdsourcing has been everyone. The wisdom of the crowd is something that has been more in evidence lately and Web 2.0 technologies allow for people to get together and collaborate on products, websites, information gathering, etc. Now it’s the navigation systems’ turn. With Waze, drivers submit new routes, traffic updates and [...]

Adobe recruiting beta testers for Captivate on Mac!

The beta for Captivate on Mac! Shared via AddThis

Metaverse Roadmap Overview

I just came across a great article from the Metaverse Roadmap Overview with some interesting findings, discussions and survey results around virtual worlds, game-based learning, augmented reality and other innovative ways or using virtual world technologies mixed with “real world” ones to create new realities. As stated in the article: “Virtual worlds increasingly augment the [...]

Opera Unite – Sharing Content Directly

Opera Unite launched earlier this week, providing services that make it possible for users to share content seamlessly with one another via the Web with no need for uploads! Many tech blogs like TechCrunch are all over this. Warning, *dork* attempt at a poetic verse: “The cloud just got lighter and can probably fly higher.” [...]

Create Web Apps for you Favorite Sites

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 [...]

Crowdsourcing eLearning (Feedback)

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 [...]