Free Online Website Builders (WYSIWYG)
New technologies have made it easy for anyone to be a content author. The webmaster no longer has to be a highly specialized HTML coder. So, if you don’t have much experience in creating...
Enzo Silva blog Blog
Web 2.0 in Education
[slideshare id=5316&doc=web-20-5316-25603&w=425] There is so much controversy over the term Web 2.0. Some people state that the digits “2.0” determine a version, and that the Web is continuously evolving without need for a “label”....
VirtuED – Using Wonderland to Promote Learning
This is a great project and here is a post on their efforts to establish Wonderland as a learning tool. Keep up the good work guys!
How NOT to teach in Second Life
An interesting interview with Milosun Czervik on the use of Second Life for teaching and how most people just replicate flawed real-life environments and approaches when using MUVEs for learning. Interview conducted by Kevin...
Oui, Wii…
I finally found at Wii at Target today. I had visited both a Target and a BestBuy yesterday (Saturday) and they said they’d have it this morning, which I thought was weird for them to...
Bike Flying over the Golden Gate Bridge
Mike shows us an interesting way of making exercising more fun and interactive. He created a bike that communicates to Google Earth by using the Sun SPOT device created by Sun Microsystems. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3QK1eu3q3E&hl=en]
Create Your Own Interactive WhiteBoard for Less Than $100
So, schools and companies always have a problem called “budget”, right? An interactive whiteboard (fo which the most famous representatives are perhaps Smartboard and the Promethean Board) can cost thousands of dollars. Well, Johnny...
Second Life Hands-free Immersive Experience
NOW we can have immersive experiences that involve our body movements in MUVEs. This was something experienced mostly by Nintendo Wii users when playing boxing and dodging a punch. Well, Linden Labs has been...
Handipoints – Virtual World that Helps Kids Do Chores in Real World
Speaking of persuasion power, Handipoints is a clever idea of getting kids’ interest in video games and virtual worlds to get them to do something productive in real life through an “incentive program”. I...
Web Conferencing Tools
So in reply to Ed Teng’s comment in my post with invites to A.Viary online production tools (if I understand him correctly) I will post some links and comments to webconferencing tools that might...
