This was originally a post about Web2.0, in the context of libraries. It doesn’t take long to change it to “Classroom 2.0” or “eLearning”. From a staff point of view, if we’re going to start to get our students to use Web2.0 tools to support their learning, how much time we can allocate to supporting…
Category: Web 2.0
A Free Learning Tool for Every Learning Problem?
ZaidLearn presents a list of tools. It’s quite long, most are familiar to me, though there are some new ones. I’d heard of “DimDim” before, but I’ve not checked it out; Courselab, was new to me. I was sorry not to see Elgg in his list; but perhaps he’s been bitten by the recent hiccups…
We are smarter than me.
We are smarter than me, now a book, originally started out as a wiki. I’d heard of it before in passing, though not actually checked it, until I read Becta’s “Emerging Technologies for Learning” (Vol 3) The wiki is still there; I’ve not got the book, so I can’t compare the two; however, it should…
Video: Twitter in Plain English
Common Craft have another of their Explanations In Plain English; this time it’s for Twitter. I guess I ought to watch it myself, and actually *do* something, rather than just having an account that’s pretty dormant there….
6 Adobe AIR apps
ReadWriteWeb have a list of useful AIR applications. I’ve just tried the Google Analytics application – it’s useful. Perhaps a little fiddly to set up profiles, as it seems that I have to enter the username & password to set up each profile – even when I have several sites tied to a single login….
Web App Charts
Top Ten WebApps. Several bloggers have pointed to this list of the top ten webapps. Carsonified did a straw poll of about 3,000 colleagues, friends and others round the world in order to create the list. While the top 4 are not in the least surprising; (Gmail, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook); the 5th was perhaps…
10 Semantic Apps to Watch
Richard McManus has posted a list of 10 Semantic Apps to Watch. They’re just about all new to me; the only one I’ve heard of is Talis; and I’m not sure even that really counts, as I merely thought of it as “something the library have”. The “bottom up” aspects are interesting; particularly the “Annotate…
Asterpix Interactive Video
Having just worked out how to get my “Freeview” player going in Second Life, I’m now wondering if I can include a video from Asterpix. Even if I can’t, I can see uses for this particular tool. Via Vicki Davis:…
Online Office tools.
Over the last year or so, I’ve been experimenting with a number of online office tools. I tend to use Google Docs the most, not that I particularly think that it’s the best, more that others I know use it, and they want to share things. It’s also just introduced a search feature, which could…
Class assignment: Write an original Wikipedia article
Martha Groom of the University of Washington Bothell, has had her students do major edits / create new articles on Wikipedia as part of an assignment. For her students, the Wikipedia experiment was “transformative,” and students’ writing online proved better than the average undergrad research paper. Knowing their work was headed for the Web, not…