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The 4 R’s of Brainstorming New Ideas

19 Aug 2010 at 21:41

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0, instructional design, learning, schools

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In his free eBook “Designing for the Web”, Mark Boulton suggests a 4R approach to brainstorming ideas for a project. While the eBook is geared toward Web Design, those working as Instructional Designers and educators can also benefit from these tips as creative professionals. Here are the 4 R’s as presented by Mark. “Revolution: Revolution [...]

Google Forms Branching – Digital Story Telling

26 Jul 2010 at 08:41

enzofsilva

Educational Games, eLearning 2.0, learning, social media, Technology, Web 2.0

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The Google Apps team published a blog post explaining improvements to the Forms tool allowing form creators to easily configure branching of pages depending on the respondent’s choice for every question. This feature has a lot of potential for digital story telling. Teachers or students can create interactive stories that evolve with the reader’s every [...]

Uses of the iPhone/iPod/iPad in the Classroom

16 Jun 2010 at 12:44

enzofsilva

Educational Games, eLearning 2.0, learning, schools, Technology, Web 2.0

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I came across a short presentation by Grace Poli from Union City High School on Slideshare.net. The presentaion focuses on practical ways for using the iPod Touch in class, but of courses the uses of all of Apple’s mobile devices are interchangeable most of the time since they have similar technical specifications. Here are some [...]

Google Launches Its Own Open Source Learning Platform – CloudCourse

26 May 2010 at 20:43

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0, learning, open source, social media, Web 2.0

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In an arena dominated by Moodle, Google launches its own open source learning platform: CloudCourse. According to the blog “Open Source at Google”, the application was released with the intention of driving developers to develop Web applications with Google’s App Engine. The team encourages developers to look into the source code to find out how [...]

Social Media Threat to Education?

11 Mar 2010 at 09:19

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0, learning, schools, social media, Technology, Web 2.0

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“CNN Sees Facebook as Major Competitor” says Mashable’s writer Jennifer Van Grove in an article today. Even though it seems reasonable at first “well, people are getting their news first on Facebook”, media giants like CNN should look deeper into social media platforms as OPPORTUNITIES to reach more people with their news. Similar to what [...]

Is HTML5 the Future of eLearning?

25 Feb 2010 at 08:57

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0, learning, mobile, Technology

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In the past few years we have seen the rise of the Apple (iPhone/iPod/iPad)  vs. Adobe (Flash) wars. For many reasons (that I don’t agree with), Apple doesn’t seem to want Flash to be enabled in their mobile devices even though many websites rely on the technology to deliver interactive experiences. Accessibility (for users with [...]

Watch Le Web Live December 10 2009

10 Dec 2009 at 08:29

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0, social media, Technology, Web 2.0

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About Le Web: “The real time web is taking the world by storm! Twitter has grown exponentially in one year with an extremely simple service that does only one thing: keep you in touch with what your friends are doing, in real time. Facebook entirely redesigned its most important assets, its home page and opened [...]

Google Wave and Education

20 Oct 2009 at 10:33

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0, learning, social media, Web 2.0

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Imagine a scenario in which a professor, instead of having students discuss questions in separate threads in a classroom forum, s/he simply starts a conversation in one place on the Web where everyone can add videos, photos, gadgets, maps, text and more media to illustrate their points. Now imagine this conversation could also be played [...]

This Week’s Twitter Updates

31 Aug 2009 at 07:15

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0

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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

30 Aug 2009 at 18:40

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0, learning, open source, social media, Technology

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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 [...]

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