Web 2.0 mind mapping tools came up at a meeting today (following a discussion on Portableapps – including the fact that you can install Freemind to a USB stick – as long as it’s got JRE on). Someone mentioned MindMeister, which I’ve used before. I knew I’d had a play with something else, though wasn’t…
Martin Weller raises several points to support the use of a combination of Web 2.0 type tools, rather than an Institutional VLE. While I think that the points he raises are valuable, and that the combination of tools would make a good set (call it a PLE or not as you like!). I agree with…
Paul Downey has uploaded an image “The Web is Agreement” to Flickr. It’s a very rich image, and well worth spending some time looking at. He’s created a set of images, and has also created a very clear .pdf (A2) that can be downloaded. In the comments, others have referred to Tim Berners-Lee’s diagram, and…
Panoramio – Photos of the World Nice Google maps based application (one of many!) which tags photos to locations. I’ve also had Imagini bookmarked for a while. The idea behind that is that you can select photos that represent your personality – and find other members based on that. They call it “Visual DNA”…
right now? Rather a fun application!…
Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English I’ve seen CommonCraft’s “Wikis in Plain English” at YouTube, but this site is more useful, as they’ve got several videos – including Social Networking sites, RSS etc.,…
Google have added a presentation tool to their docs site. I’ve not yet tested it, but it could be useful for students who don’t have Office … but, I still think that Zoho has more to offer than Google at present. Zoho Writer offers integration with Google gears, (Google doesn’t)though as you can only download…
One of the best sessions so far this morning… It started out with “Students aren’t prepared for Web 2 technology, are they?” – which highlighted that students were having difficulties using wikis etc., not really because of the technology (though they weren’t as familiar as one might have expected), but due to the fact that…
Fun session this morning … Josie is thinking of setting up a Matchmaker 2.0 service; though I’m not entirely sure I can say that I’ve had a 100% satisfaction… The site wiki, set up as we went will have the videos once they’re done. I was rather impressed with the “Hood 2.0″ group that was…
I’m now in Nottingham at ALT-C – which is a much larger conference than I’ve got used to! There are people everywhere – and a choice of 9 sessions to attend each time. The first Keynote was Michele Selinger (link to Elluminate recording), who spoke about a range of different “chasms” – and how we…