Learning together…
Several universities world-wide have made their courseware available in different formats over the years. A very popular format is that of podcasts on iTunesU or video lectures on Youtube. See, for instance, this broad list of “free courseware” offerings by major universities. Yale, for example, has made several past lectures available on their Open Yale [...]
Sometimes, when I need some inspiration and ideas for words to use in a project, I take the visual route and consult a “visual thesaurus”. These handy Web applications can help you quickly find new words for a concept you’re working with, visualize its relationship with other words, and, of course, amplify your vocabulary and [...]
For those looking for free language learning software, there’s always the online Rosetta Stone alternatives with a twist of collaborative learning such as: LiveMocha, Babbel, MangoLanguages, Bussu, and others (which I will discuss in another post). For those who don’t care so much about the “practicing with a community’” part of it and just want [...]
Google Labs has a new tools in their projects. It’s called Google Art Project. This tool lets you take virtual tours in museums around the world and explore specific works or art. Interesting product for self-exploration or guided lessons in a school setting, for instance.
The Mashable team just posted a link to a video in which Jensen Harris, director if PM for the Windows User Experience team at Microsoft, goes over some of the new features of the future Windows 7 successor. If anything, this video is serves as a good clue to how primarily desktop-focused Operating System developers [...]
In what seems to be a daunting task of converting over 10,000 (and counting) 78 rpm disks in to digital audio, the Library of Congress has recently released the National Jukebox, a project which lets users listen to music from the beginning of 20th century (free of charge). The digitized records are part of [...]
I’m moderating a panel at the SXSW Interactive conference today at 3:30 p.m. in Austin, TX. The panel is titled The Potential of Augmented Reality in Education. While I have led and participated in Learning Design and Development projects which involved games, virtual worlds, and social media, I have yet to experiment with the use of [...]
I flew into Austin, TX today to participate of the SXSW Interactive conference as moderator of a panel titled The Potential of Augmented Reality for Education. I came to pick up my badge and swag at the Austin Convention Center this afternoon and I can say I’m already impressed with the diversity of people, styles [...]
It is true, with the World Wide Web invading everyone’s homes and pockets with handheld devices everyone has a chance to be a comedian these days. Posts like this listing funny Amazon product reviews are popular these days. This post from Geekosystem collects even more creative reviews; 50 of them, to be more exact! There’s [...]
