Spam on my blog
Sorry if it takes a while for me to approve your comments, guys. I’ve been getting so much spam that it takes a while to go through them and sort out the good comments...
Monthly Archive: May 2008
Social Media Assessment and Learner Progress Tracking
Something that has bothered me is that, while the adoption of social media (Web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis, social networks and so on) depends on a paradigm shift and require a new way...
Gliffy – an Online Alternative to Microsoft Visio for Flowcharting
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....
WiiMote and World of Warcraft
Innovation is the key. Take a look at how these guys innovate with the Wiimote to use gestures to control World of Warcraft. The future of learning is definitely more “interactive”, more “immersive”…. 🙂...
Free Online Website Builders (WYSIWYG)
New technologies have made it easy for anyone to be a content author. The webmaster no longer has to be a highly specialized HTML coder. So, if you don’t have much experience in creating...
Web 2.0 in Education
[slideshare id=5316&doc=web-20-5316-25603&w=425] There is so much controversy over the term Web 2.0. Some people state that the digits “2.0” determine a version, and that the Web is continuously evolving without need for a “label”....
VirtuED – Using Wonderland to Promote Learning
This is a great project and here is a post on their efforts to establish Wonderland as a learning tool. Keep up the good work guys!
How NOT to teach in Second Life
An interesting interview with Milosun Czervik on the use of Second Life for teaching and how most people just replicate flawed real-life environments and approaches when using MUVEs for learning. Interview conducted by Kevin...
Oui, Wii…
I finally found at Wii at Target today. I had visited both a Target and a BestBuy yesterday (Saturday) and they said they’d have it this morning, which I thought was weird for them to...
Bike Flying over the Golden Gate Bridge
Mike shows us an interesting way of making exercising more fun and interactive. He created a bike that communicates to Google Earth by using the Sun SPOT device created by Sun Microsystems. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3QK1eu3q3E&hl=en]
