Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Steve Jobs – Thinking Outside the Box

It’s common knowledge that Steve Jobs is an innovator and has done a great hob at bringing Apple back up and making it one of the most prominent technology companies of our time. This video is particularly interesting in that it shows Jobs’ ability to express ideas in a simple manner with effective persuasive discourse [...]

Adobe Edge – Ferramenta de desenvolvimento em HTML5

Adobe acaba de lançar (gratuitamente) a ferramenta de desenvolvimento de conteúdo Web em HTML5 chamada Edge. Vocês estão considerando seu uso no desenvolvimento de conteúdo pra #EaD ? Seria essa mais uma indicação da direção da Web rumo à padrões mais abertos?  

Google+ Project – New Social Networking Service by Google

Will the guys from Techcrunch soon put one more of Google’s social media endeavors in the deadpool akin to Google Video, Google Wave and so many others?? I hope not, this new (“limited Field Trial”) social networking service Google is cooking up sure sounds intriguing and useful: Google+. Here are the main features of the [...]

Storybird – Beautiful Collaborative Storytelling

Storybird is a powerful collaborative storytelling platform. One of its strongest features lies, of course, in the collaboration with other authors. However, it is also important to emphasize its library of creative artwork which can be incorporated into the stories created. Authors can choose from a wide range of illustrations when looking for creative visuals [...]

Google Art Project- Virtual Tour of Museums and Art

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.      

National Jukebox

  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 [...]

The Potential of Augmented Reality in Education

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 [...]

Twitter Newspaper Visualizer – Paper.li

I’ve been meaning to play with Paper.li for a while but haven’t found time to do it (even though it takes 30 seconds to set up). I know. This is a great visualization tool for information shared on your (or someone else’s) Twitter stream. Links, photos, videos and other media are all nicely distributed on [...]

Google Forms Branching – Digital Story Telling

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

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 [...]