Posts Tagged ‘google’

Youtube EDU

There is a vast sea of information out there. In fact, it’s hard not to avoid drowning in it if you, as an educator or learner (which we all are) don’t put strategies in place to organize content by aggregating it using different bookmarking and sharing Web applications (which are a dime a dozen. Tools [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Google Launches Its Own Open Source Learning Platform – CloudCourse

In an arena dominated by Moodle, Google launches its own open source learning platform: CloudCourse. According to the blog “Open Source at Google”, the application was released with the intention of driving developers to develop Web applications with Google’s App Engine. The team encourages developers to look into the source code to find out how [...]

New Google Docs Features

Google Docs keeps getting better as developers focus even more in real-time collaboration and in creating a more robust set of features. This document explains how to unleash some new features on Google Documents (before they are rolled out to everyone by default). Here are the set of features that were added and how to [...]

Google For Educators

Google has an area dedicated to Education called Google for Educators which provides news, resources and tools for the classroom. Featuring information about events and opportunities for educators and students, tutorials and testimonials around Google applications and how they can be used in educational contexts. Teachers will also be able to find classroom materials and [...]

Google Wave and Education

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 [...]

Crowdsourcing eLearning (Feedback)

I understand crowdsourcing courses, lessons and other eLearning-related material can be a tough call for any sector (corporate, K12, etc.). But has anyone had any experience crowdsourcing the development of learning experiences from a user feedback perspective at least?  One question could be how is crowdsourcing feedback different from simply putting a feedback button on [...]

Google Launching Chrome, a Smarter Web Browser

What really interests me here is the alternative approach to explaining Google’s new technologically-advanced Web browser that has multiple process running at the same time. They ingeniously used a well-written comic to explain the somewhat complex advances of the new browser. Very interesting piece of a more informal learning approach.

Google Knol Released Early This Week

Collaboration is the big buzzword of the year. Goolgle, that is trying to invest time and efforts on anything that has “potential”, is trying once again (after Google Docs) to tap that market. They just released Google Knol which is a mix of collaborative authoring and community. The community aspect allows for search for specific [...]