Second Life’s Decline? – Whatever Happened to Second Life?
This post by Barry Collins for PCPro highlights the author’s adventures in Second Life and the decline of his interest in the virtual world. As many of us when we first get into something...
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Article by Avatar Languages – 3D Virtual Worlds for Language Learning
3D Virtual Worlds for Language Learning
Social Networks Around the World – Trends in Social Media
This map published on TechCrunch recently just makes me wonder if we are doing the right thing when using social networking to reach our customers, learners, partners. It seems to me most of our...
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...
Google Wave
The hype, the secrecy, all contributes to the buzz around Google Wave. I don’t like Google’s strategy. But I have 5 invites left that I don’t know who to give to. So, send me...
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...
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...
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...
