Uses of the iPhone/iPod/iPad in the Classroom
I came across a short presentation by Grace Poli from Union City High School on Slideshare.net. The presentaion focuses on practical ways for using the iPod Touch in class, but of courses the uses...
Category: Web 2.0
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...
Social Media Threat to Education?
“CNN Sees Facebook as Major Competitor” says Mashable’s writer Jennifer Van Grove in an article today. Even though it seems reasonable at first “well, people are getting their news first on Facebook”, media giants...
Finding Alternatives to Software and Websites You Need
People often ask me how I know so many different tools and website off the top of my head. Normally, when someone says they have a problem I feel compelled to ask them if...
Watch Le Web Live December 10 2009
About Le Web: “The real time web is taking the world by storm! Twitter has grown exponentially in one year with an extremely simple service that does only one thing: keep you in touch...
Ustream – Broadcast Events Live From Your iPhone
Ustream just changed the way we broadcast events to our crowds. With their newly released Broadcaster application for the iPhone you can use your iPhone’s camera to broadcast any event right into your interactive...
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...
Did You Know 4.0
All right… annoying version number aside, this is an interesting video similar to Shift Happens and other “trendy” videos out there about how social media and the Web are becoming even more important as...
Record Screencasts and Demos with no Downloads
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...
Augmented Reality and Learning
The dawn of augmented reality on a consumer level presents many possibilities for marketing, tourism and virtually any area of expertise. But what would be its impact in Education and learning in general? Would...
