Learning together…
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 [...]
In response to Koreen Olbrish’s post about learning that takes place in ARGs: Here is a good place to find out what ARGs are being played currently. One of the best examples of ARGs I think was the one that warmed players up for the release of The Dark Knight. Just explore the puzzles there, [...]
Excellent list on the SLEducation wiki on the use of Second Life for immersive learning. Some very interesting islands are highlighted like the ISTE island. Explore the list here.
Here is a list from WikiEducator.org that might interest many people. It includes many websites and organizations (such as MERLOT) that offer open eLearning content on the Web. http://www.wikieducator.org/Exemplary_Collection_of_Open_eLearning_Content_Repositories
For those who need to save their files and share them on the cloud. Here is a list of free websites that offer online storage (some can sync our files across multiple computer without the need for individual downloads and uploads): Box - Free 1GB storage, 5 collaborators and a limit of 25MB per file upload. [...]
I am a huge fan of having access to my files anywhere, anytime. On a friend’s computer, at home, on my mobile device (the iPhone), etc. Securely, of course… I have written about file storage and sync’ing before, a lot of them are freemium (you need to pay for extra storage, more features, etc.). A [...]
