Education without complication. ‘Most teachers are familiar with the concept of social networking sites, but what can online networks offer professional development?
A paper from the MirandaNet Fellowship, a diverse body of education, government and industry figures, uses the fellowship’s own e-community to examine what online learning looks like in a professional organisation.
Braided Learning: an Emerging [...]
From the monthly archives:
June 2007
ProProfs Flashcards. ProProfs Flashcards is a free, community-oriented service aimed at providing students and educators with ability to study, find and export flashcards by either selecting from exhaustive library covering a wide variety of subjects or by creating their own.
Part of the appeal of ProProfs Flashcards to students is the extensive collection of existing flashcards [...]
Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students. ‘When I was in college most of the tools in this round up didn’t exist. It was truly the dark ages of education! Well, okay, it was a just a few years ago, but just in this decade, and especially in the last few years, a handful of [...]
University Podcast Collection at Open Culture. Very good. [via Distance Learning]
More podcasts at Open Culture: Podcast Library
Open Culture. ‘Open Culture explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that’s freely available on the web, and that makes learning dynamic, productive, and fun.’
Pachyderm Project. ‘What is Pachyderm? Pachyderm is an easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool. Designed for people who have little or no multimedia authoring experience, Pachyderm is accessed through a web browser and is as easy to use as filling out a web form. Authors upload their own media (images, audio clips, and short video segments) and [...]
Fathom – The Source for Online Learning. ‘This archive, provided by Columbia University, offers access to the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by its member institutions. Columbia encourages you to browse this archive of online learning resources, including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and free seminars. You can find additional online resources from [...]
InstantWebQuest. ‘InstantWebquest is a web based software for creating WebQuests in a short time. When you use InstantWebQuest, you will not need any of writing HTML code or using any web editor software. InstantWebQuest creates all the necessary files and puts them into the server free. Hosting is free.
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in [...]
WikiGroaning. ‘WikiGroaning is the art of comparing the level of two things nerdyness based off Wikipedia results.
Its a pretty safe assumption that Wikipedia articles, although read by millions, are primarily written and updated by tech savvy people with a large amount of time on their hands (read: nerds).
Based off the level of contribution and size [...]
Landmarks Class Blogmeister. ‘Perhaps one of the most fascinating tools that has emerged from the Internet cloud in recent years is the Blog. A shortening of the term Web log, the Blog is an online publishing tool that enables people to easily publish their loves, passions, dislikes, peeves, discoveries, and insights.
Blogging is also showing up [...]
Utopia Podcast at LearnOutLoud. ‘Written in 1515, Sir Thomas More’s famous narrative describes what could be considered the perfect society, and questions whether a perfect society is possible.’
Wikipedia: Utopia. ‘Utopia (from Greek: “no place” or “place that does not exist”) is an imaginary island, depicted by Sir Thomas More as a perfect social, legal, and [...]
ePortfolio 2007 Conference – Employability and Lifelong Learning in the Knowledge Society, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 17-19 October 2007. ‘ePortfolio 2007 is the key international event for the growing community of professionals interested in, and working with, ePortfolios. It brings together policy-makers, researchers, teachers, trainers, human resource managers and technologists. As a thematic event devoted to [...]
