Posts Tagged ‘education’

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 [...]

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 [...]

Social Media Revolution – Evolution

17 Aug 2009 at 07:40

enzofsilva

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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 [...]

Essential iPhone Apps for Students and Educators

10 Aug 2009 at 13:14

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0

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MacWorld published the “Ten Essential Back to School iPhone Apps”. While they chose very good apps, they might have left out a few other interesting apps as well. A possible improvement on the “top X apps for students” post idea would be to have different school levels (Pre-school, Middle School, High School, Higher Ed., etc.) [...]

Uses of Second Life in Education

11 Apr 2009 at 01:40

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0

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Excellent list on the SLEducation wiki on the use of Second Life for immersive learning. Some very interesting islands are highlighted like the ISTE island. Explore the list here.

Twitter Tags

30 Sep 2008 at 15:12

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0

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I have just found out how useful Twitter tags can be. I have for a while been a skeptic of the use of microblogging for Education and in general, for that matter, Although I am a believer in many aspects of social media (Web 2.0) and that it can in fact provide tools for the [...]

Microsoft Doesn’t Believe in Open Source Virtual Worlds

29 Sep 2008 at 21:30

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0, open source, social media, Web 2.0

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As seen in this article from PC Magazine reported by ITExaminer, Microsoft (via Craig Mundie) doesn’t seem to believe in Open Source virtual worlds such as Second Life. While I agree that (open) virtual worlds are still very limited, I believe in the potential of such environments on a long term basis and I don’t [...]

List of Buzzwords in the Classroom

25 Sep 2008 at 19:05

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0

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I always rant on and on about buzzwords in Education and how many people just use meaningless words brought to them by a fad or they try to create it themselves. I came across this interesting, funny list of those true definitions of some buzzwords specifically for those educators that work in the classroom setting: http://www.illinoisloop.org/buzzwords.html

iPhone Educational Apps

08 Sep 2008 at 02:06

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0

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A while back I thought of creating a blog to review only educational apps for the iPhone. Suddenly I noticed that not only did just a few developers try to create educational apps but also the quality of those that are there isn’t what you’d expect… So, I’m still considering reviewing a few iPhone apps [...]

Another buzzword: EduPunk

21 Jun 2008 at 16:42

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0

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It is ridiculous… it seems like all people focus on these days is on coming up with the next stupid “buzzword”… even if all it means is to dress up old concepts in to new clothes… seriously… I feel sorry for those who are still trying to come up with Web 3.0 and such… or [...]

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