SMART Table
SMART Technologies has developed an interactive and collaborative table. Eye-candy design and interaction or is there more to it? Let’s see what it comes with and if it can retain attention besides initial interest...
Monthly Archive: October 2008
Wikis as a Learning Environment (at least as part of it)
Wikis offer a great opportunity for collaboration. Both as self-hosted or as a subscription service, there are many wiki engines to choose from and Wikimatrix makes it easier to compare them side-by-side. As says...
Peanut Butter Wiki
There are many wiki engines out there, see Wikimatrix’s comparison tool. Some have corporate-geared features and storage space, others are more appealing to school educators and students. Some are engines for people willing to...
Eee PC
The Eee PC has been out since October 2007 but hasn’t gained much press coverage (at least I hadn’t heard about it until recently, and I ALWAYS try to stay in the loop of...
Crowdsourcing (and) Learning
Many companies, educators and students already use tools such as blogs, wikis, Google Docs, DimDim and other collaborative tools to co-create materials and learn collaboratively. However, these normally involve a small group of people...
A Virtual Forbidden City
Not forbidden (you are allowed to explore it), is the interactive virtual replica of the ancient Chinese Forbidden City that has been released by IBM after a few years of development. Great environment for...
World of Warcraft and Language Learning – a blog post
Interesting post about MMORPGs and language learning. There is no doubt that the social atmosphere of such games as World of Warcraft (referred to in the post above) offer a great opportunity for interaction...
DimDim Webconferencing
DimDim just released their 4.0 version that has more features and is more compatible with Mac computers (including desktop sharing). The free version includes hosting and scheduling meetings for up to 20 participants and...
OneSentence – Stories Told in One Sentence
I came across this interesting website called OneSentence which, differently from microblogs like Twitter that has users post so many meaningless updates most of the time, lets users share stories in once sentence only. Would...
Learner vs Participant
The term learner bears a sense of a passive individual that is merely a receptacle for Instruction and information. In light of this assumption, one would presume that another word or another view of...
