This Week’s Twitter Updates
Brook’s Law. Isn’t it true? http://bit.ly/Z2r1X # I’m very pleased with Sygic GPS app for the iPhone so far. Very accurate! Better reviews than TomTom and Navigon and cheaper too! # Why don’t teens...
Monthly Archive: August 2009
Open Books and TextBooks Online, Free
Taking after the movement of open source (free – as in freedom) software development, knowledge and information has also been “open sourced” (and crowdsourced) as new Web technologies allow for flexibility and ease of...
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...
SCVNGR – Build Scavenger Hunts and Augmented Reality Games
SCVNGR is a fantastic online scavenger hunt suite for those who like to play AND build them. Its SCVNGR Hunt Builder offers all you need to create and manage your scavenger hunts (public or...
Helen Keller and a Vintage Video Lesson on a Special Case of Language Acquisition
Well, this is also a lesson on perseverance, phonetics, Special Education (that is really special), pronunciation, passion for teaching, passion for learning and thinking outside the box… oh and many more things… Most of...
eLearning Project Management – a Quick Video Overview
This is a well done short video overview of elements of project management geared toward eLearning projects. Simple and straight to the point… (by Facilitador eLearning Solutions) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WURExEwxU2M]
This Week’s Twitter Updates
Find out what the Web has tonsay about you w/ Personas (from MIT) http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html # Everyone has to try MIT's Personas Web app. Type your name in there and read the information about YOU...
Entire Novels on Twitter – Starting with Moby-Dick
Dan Coulter created a robotic feed that tweeted automatically 140 characters from Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick every hour. This is an interesting concept that remind me of when novels used to popularly come in...
Social Media Revolution – Evolution
Let’s think about the impact these emerging technologies can have on Education, on learning, on other fields (not just marketing)… not sure “revolution” is the term, but definitely an “evolution” of the way people...
Essential iPhone Apps for Students and Educators
MacWorld published the “Ten Essential Back to School iPhone Apps”. While they chose very good apps, they might have left out a few other interesting apps as well. A possible improvement on the “top...
