Archive for the 'Web 2.0' Category
May 12th, 2008 by Jorge Goncalves
Scriblink - Your Online Whiteboard. ‘Scriblink is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time.
We are all about collaboration. Whether you’re here for pure artistic enjoyment or more practical matters such as layout planning, concept diagramming, or tutoring a friend in math, Scriblink brings you the power of free hand expression with anyone, at anytime, anywhere in the world.
On the homepage you’ll be immediately directed to a Scriblink board, which is free and requires no registration. The board allows you to invite up to five people at a time to join you, either through email or directly by copying and pasting the URL.’
Scriblink: The Official Blog
January 17th, 2008 by Jorge Goncalves
Multiply. ‘Multiply gives you an easy way to share all kinds of digital media, including photos, blogs, videos, music and more, all in one convenient place: your own personal web site. With Multiply, you can share and discuss your stuff with everyone in your “social network,” and also be alerted whenever they have something new.’
July 5th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
Pedagogical affordances of syndication, aggregation, and mash-up of content on the Web, by Barbara Dieu and Vance Stevens, TESL-EJ, Vol. 11.1 (2007). Excerpt: As Internet and online learning become more and more incorporated into our courses, syllabi, and teaching materials, it becomes increasingly important that the impact the Web is having on changing perceptions of literacy carries over to the way we practice teaching and learning. Here we will focus on which collaborative online tools can most appropriately be applied in online and blended courses to foster reading and writing. Specifically, we will discuss some of the freely available social networking platforms and tools, their common features, and how these can help language learners find, aggregate and harvest learning objects while connecting to other people on the Web at large. We will also introduce two web publishing projects, Dekita.org and Writingmatrix, and explain how they function to facilitate this process and encourage connections.
TESL-EJ: Teaching English as a Second or or Foreign Language - Electronic Journal. ‘TESL-EJ began as the brainchild of a group of scholars who saw the need for a freely-distributed electronic academic journal. It has grown to become an internationally- recognized source of ESL and EFL information for people in scores of countries. TESL-EJ is fully refereed - each article undergoes a review by at least two knowledgeable scholars.’
July 1st, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
Edu 2.0: The Future of Education. ‘Edu 2.0 is a next-generation web site that makes teaching and learning more efficient and enjoyable. Edu 2.0 is free, web hosted and available from any device that supports a web browser. Anyone can teach and/or learn using the system, whether it’s at school, at home, or on the move.
Its features can be categorized into four main areas: a) Teach: teach a traditional private class or an open public class using our free, web-hosted learning management system; b) Learn: learn in an instructor-led class or at your own pace using our personalized study system; c) Resources: benefit from 10,000+ community-contributed resources including quizzes, experiments, web quests, projects, and self-paced courses and d) Community: network and collaborate with members that share your educational interests in our secure online communities.’
List of our current features.
June 25th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
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 tools to make school life easier have appeared. What follows is the set of web tools I would put in my backpack were I headed back to school tomorrow.’
June 17th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
Classroom 2.0. Classroom 2.0, created by Steve Hargadon, is a social networking site, devoted to those interested in the practical application of computer technology (especially Web 2.0) in the classroom and in their own professional development. Especially we hope that those who feel they are “beginners” will find this a comfortable place to start being a part of the community dialog and to learn more.’
Classroom 2.0 Wiki. The Classroom 2.0 wiki is intended for teachers and educators to help each other integrate and use technology in the classroom in practical ways.
Related: School 2.0 - School 2.0 goes beyond the practical discussion of applying the read/write and collaborative Web technologies in the classroom. It is, instead, a larger discussions of how education, learning, and our physical school spaces can (or should) change because of the changing nature of our social and economic lives brought on by these technologies - and School 2.0 Wiki
June 4th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
Qoolsqool - Top Free Educational Resources. ‘Qoolsqool is a free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. Qoolsqool’s mission is to take advantage of 21st century technologies to advance knowledge and education around the world and reach to people with a need or a desire to learn or teach.
Qoolsqool uses the collective intelligence of a community to select online educational resources. Qoolsqool is developping a system where a variety of educational resources will become available for each subject our users may be interested in. At qoolsqool, you will be able to find video courses, audio presentations, audiobooks, blogged tutorials, flash animated lessons, etc. For each subject you may be interested in, other members will have provided a number of resources and formats that fit your background, aspirations, personality and life-style.
Based on the fact that a community is usually more knowledgeable than an isolated individual, qoolsqool provides a community-based selection system that finds, ranks and annotates the best educational resources available online for free.’ [via Tropical SEO]
May 21st, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
WiZiQ is an educational community on the web, connecting teachers and learners.
Teachers and learners can build their profile, form learning networks and connect with members via virtual classroom thus breaking the barriers of distance.
WiZiQ is a highly advanced learning system where teachers and learners can meet in real time using just a PC with an internet connection. Doing away the constraints of physical distance between the teacher and the learner, WiZiQ uses a virtual classroom application that is fully equipped with 2-way audio, text chat, whiteboard, PowerPoint and PDF Document sharing capabilities allowing an instantaneous exchange of notes between the teacher and the learner. They can write queries and solutions easily on the whiteboard that are displayed on the computer screens of both the participants at the same time; making the personal tutoring a highly interactive and rich learning experience.
May 10th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
‘Edtags.org is a website for educators (e.g., teachers, education graduate students, professors, librarians, etc.) to connect with people sharing similar interests, discover relevant materials that may have “eluded” the traditional card catalogue search, and store and categorize your favorite bookmarks.
You are encouraged to upload, store, categorize and share your own course papers, pre-print materials, pictures and the like. When you label a bookmark “private” only you can see it; however, sharing is what this site is all about!’
April 15th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students?, by John Thompson, Innovate, Vol. 3 (2007). ‘Web 2.0 is here. Internet users are not only finding information on the Internet; they are also creating and uploading content. What will be the impact on colleges and universities as more digitally savvy students, those who are accustomed to Web 2.0’s two-way information exchange, enter their halls? Beginning with an exploration of the meaning and application of Web 2.0, this article considers how Net Generation students with Web 2.0 expectations will reshape institutions of higher education.’
March 16th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
SlideShare - A Place to Share & Discover Slideshows. ‘SlideShare is a free service for sharing presentations and slideshows. You can upload your PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Keynote or PDF presentations, tag them, embed them into your blog or website, browse others’ presentations, and comment on individual slides. What’s more, the transcripts of your presentation will be indexed by internet search engines and show up in search results. It’s a great way to share your ideas with others, or to learn from other people. And it’s free.’
March 11th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
Report: What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education. ‘ Within 15 years the Web has grown from a group work tool for scientists at CERN into a global information space with more than a billion users. Currently, it is both returning to its roots as a read/write tool and also entering a new, more social and participatory phase. These trends have led to a feeling that the Web is entering a ‘second phase’ — a new, ‘improved’ Web version 2.0. But how justified is this perception?
This TechWatch report was commissioned to investigate the substance behind the hyperbole surrounding ‘Web 2.0’. It reports on the implications this may have for the UK Higher and Further Education sector, with a special focus on collection and preservation activities within libraries.
The report establishes that Web 2.0 is more than a set of ‘cool’ and new technologies and services, important though some of these are. It has, at its heart, a set of at least six powerful ideas that are changing the way some people interact. Secondly, it is also important to acknowledge that these ideas are not necessarily the preserve of ‘Web 2.0’, but are, in fact, direct or indirect reflections of the power of the network: the strange effects and topologies at the micro and macro level that a billion Internet users produce.’ [via Stephen's Web]
Download link: What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education by Paul Anderson (PDF)
Top 10 FREE Web 2.0 Sites for Educators (and a few honorable mentions). Steve Dembo publishes his short-list of 15 free Web 2.0 sites for Educators (top 10 plus 5 honorable mentions) at Teach42.
