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...
Category: social media
Duolingo – free language learning while helping translate the Web
Duolingo claims to help you learn a language for free because as you practice translating sentences you are simultaneously helping them translate the Web. It is not clear to me whether translation is the only...
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...
Storybird – Beautiful Collaborative Storytelling
Storybird is a powerful collaborative storytelling platform. One of its strongest features lies, of course, in the collaboration with other authors. However, it is also important to emphasize its library of creative artwork which...
Museum of Me – a Visualization of Your (online) Social Life
Intel’s Museum of Me is a must-see exhibition of a famous online personality: you. It pull videos, photos, “likes”, friends, and other information about you on Facebook (with tour permission) and organizes a (fake,...
The Web as a Channel for Bad Attitude
Bad attitude is an euphemism compared to the hatred we’ve seen trending on the Web. Has anyone conducted a comprehensive study on this yet? To mention a couple of examples below, I’ll use news/comments...
Twitter Newspaper Visualizer – Paper.li
I’ve been meaning to play with Paper.li for a while but haven’t found time to do it (even though it takes 30 seconds to set up). I know. This is a great visualization tool...
Gamifying Learning
If you google “gamify“, “gamification” or “gamifying”, you will find several entries with this relatively new trend on the Web (the term is normally related to Web design and marketing). I just wrote a...
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...
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...
