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eLearning Project Management – a Quick Video Overview

This is a well done short video overview of elements of project management geared toward eLearning projects. Simple and straight to the point… (by Facilitador eLearning Solutions)

Entire Novels on Twitter – Starting with Moby-Dick

Dan Coulter created a robotic feed that tweeted automatically 140 characters from Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick every hour. This is an interesting concept that remind me of when novels used to popularly come in “episodes” on newspapers with cliffhangers making the readers “stay tuned for scenes of the next episode”… More detail on the story [...]

Social Media Revolution – Evolution

Let’s think about the impact these emerging technologies can have on Education, on learning, on other fields (not just marketing)… not sure “revolution” is the term, but definitely an “evolution” of the way people communicate. Technology is more than ever shortening distances, including the distance between learners and content, subject matter experts AND, maybe more [...]

The Wall Street Journal’s Article on Business 2.0 and MUVEs

This recent article discusses the urge to using Second Life for marketing is “morphing” into a vision of utilizing these environments for learning.

Physics in Second Life?

Havok4, the “physics” engine in Second Life still has some flaws. But is it possible to teach physics in Second Life? Interesting posts highlighted here.

School 2.0 Manifesto

Written by educators, this manifesto is an example of the ideas that flourish in the minds of some avant-garde educators. Even though this manifesto focuses more on school settings (facing different challenges), many of the ideas here are also valid in solely e-learning environments. http://school20.wikispaces.com/School+2.0+Manifesto

Information R/evolutuion

We DO need to rethink our assumptions about information and how we produce/find it. Rethinking this process and how new technology can help building knowledge is crucial for a change in the learning sytems we now build.

Tim O’Reilly’s (as close as you can get to a) definition of Web 2.0

Web 2.0 – some concepts

The Machine is Us/ing us

I might be repetitive here, but how long is it going to take for all of us to realize we have new and powerful interactive tools that could shape the way we learn?