eFoundations: The importance of being open I have just found this blog – Andy Powell is discussing some of the JISC tools (in particular JORUM and JISC IE), and comparing them to freely available tools (such as SlideShare, Flickr etc). He makes some good points, both about the “Reinventing the Wheel” syndrome, as well as…
Category: Web 2.0
Stringle
Towards a String’n’Glue Learning Environment I rather like this – it’s simple -and, if you have a look at the example page, it seems quite easy to build up your own. It’s where having HTML skills comes in useful – there isn’t a tool (yet) to let you build it up – you have to…
» Personalisation in electronic environments Josie Fraser gives a good overview of where we are, and, more importantly where we could be going with personalisation in electroncic (learning environments). She looks at a range of differing levels of personalisation and control that the learner can have over the environment, and sees a difference between a…
Assessment 2.0
The Scottish Education blog has a list of Web 2.0 tools and how they might be used for assessment. I’d forgotten about Netvibes, it’s like a rather more powerful Google Personal…
Women of Web 2.0
Vicki Davies (Cool Cat Teacher blog) and 3 others are planning a live EdTech Talk on Sunday – aimed at, well, Women who’re using Web 2.0. They have set up Women of Web 2.0 because we just feel there is a need for a feminine voice in Web 2.0 discussions and haven’t really seen a…
meebo me
I’ve just installed the meebo me widget – so that people can, in theory, chat to me via the webpage. I’m not sure how the firewall will cope, though it has let me talk to myself between the laptop & PC – which are on different parts of the network, though clearly behind the same…
Geotagging images
Flickr now enables you to geotag images. I can see so many ideas for this, for our students to get to know where each other lives, to increase sociability by enabling them to discuss travel/ where their relatives live. On another note, for VSO volunteers, gap year travellers or whatever, it’s a good way to…
Screen Sharing
Robin Good reviews Citrix’s GoToMeeting. It seems to be a pretty impressive tool, though not Free, so perhaps not ideal for students to experiment with. He also links to a post he made a few days ago, which has an overview of what he feels are the differences between “Screen sharing” and “application sharing” –…
Flock – and Elgg
I have just been testing the ability of Flock to post to an Elgg blog – and it works! I’m hoping to get the MSc eLearning Students to use Elgg, rather than Blogger this academic year, and I was slightly worried that would mean that they wouldn’t be able to use Flock to integrate directly…
Collaborative Notetaking
DyKnow seem to supply some collaborative notetaking software. It looks interesting, but, though I can find several places telling me that the *client* is free, I can’t seem to find the cost of the server – which it seems to need! There are other tools that I have found, that are free; for example: Google…