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 [...]
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 [...]
It is nice not to have to download any programs if you want to record simple screencasts and demos (and in SIMPLE steps) of your computer screen. Here is an good review of ScreenToaster by Jane Hart. What is even better is not to have to create yet a new username and password for yet [...]
Yeah, the concept of crowdsourcing has been everyone. The wisdom of the crowd is something that has been more in evidence lately and Web 2.0 technologies allow for people to get together and collaborate on products, websites, information gathering, etc. Now it’s the navigation systems’ turn. With Waze, drivers submit new routes, traffic updates and [...]
Here is a list from WikiEducator.org that might interest many people. It includes many websites and organizations (such as MERLOT) that offer open eLearning content on the Web. http://www.wikieducator.org/Exemplary_Collection_of_Open_eLearning_Content_Repositories
I am a huge fan of having access to my files anywhere, anytime. On a friend’s computer, at home, on my mobile device (the iPhone), etc. Securely, of course… I have written about file storage and sync’ing before, a lot of them are freemium (you need to pay for extra storage, more features, etc.). A [...]
Big news: Adobe is giving something away! Might be just while in beta, they don;t really state the latter on their website. But they do say it is FREE. The first free Adobe product I just discovered is Acrobat Buzzword, an online collaborative text editor or word processor (think Google Docs). While way ahead of [...]
The Association of Virtual Worlds is a new initiative that focuses on Virtual Worlds research and also works like an interest group. They have created a community on Ning to facilitate interaction amongst those who share interest in MUVEs. They have some very good material about their main object of interest, including these ebooks that [...]
Well, everyone is talking about Gliffy and I don;t want to be redundant, but I have to give my opinion about it as well. The program lets users collaborate on flowcharts and diagrams online. This is a very good and free (for public documents) alternative to desktop diagramming tools such as Microsoft Visio, OmniGraffle, FreeMind [...]
