I’ve just got mine on trial from http://www.womworld.com – am going to see what it makes of my pay-as-you-go card later on (lets hope that it’s charged, as the charger in the box is EU – while I have a US adapter for my OLPC, all my EU ones are at home. )…
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Flock's Screenshot extension
I’ve just installed the “screenshot” extension for Flock. It’s wonderful – very easy to use, grab a bit of screen (upload to Flickr if you want) – and there’s the image. Now, just have to drag it in here 🙂 Shared with Flock – The Social Web Browser http://flock.com…
Day 1: Relive 08
Keynote 1: Edward Castranova Looking Economics in SL – and volume of money involved. Our workshop Seemed to go well; was well worth the time spent setting up all those training accounts. Learning to Walk before you Know your name: Ian Truelove & Graham Hibbert Using OpenSim to let students learn to work within environment…
Benefits of a VLE.
There has been an interesting exchange of ideas today, on one of the JISC email lists – re. the benefits of a VLE. I particularly agree with Dave Foord’s post ( Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:37:09 -0000 ) – that good use of the communication tools is what really makes it a learning opportunity –…
Social Conferencing.
Alt C used Crowdvine to get some social networking going during the conference – it was Ok, though I have seen better Social networks (mind you, I’d far rather Crowdvine than Ning!) I’ve just seen the website for Handheld Learning – which seems to be a very useful site – as it’s got some social…
The Auricle eBooks and the e-learning filling station revisited Worth reading, but probably easier if printed out….
Visualising social software.
Malinka Ivanova has a list of a number of tools to visualise links in social networking. I see she’s also got a cloud tag powered by Quintura – a search engine that’s interested me for some time….
Edmodo
I’ve recently started using Twitter more and more; I still find it a little difficult – though I suspect that learning to write in 140 characters is actually quite good for me … and I suppose I ought to lrn to txt wrt. Several people have pointed out Edmodo recently, I’ve had a bit of…
Create an animation.
Seems a useful tool … xtranormal. I’m sure I can think of a few ideas for it. From Jane…
Twistory: Turning your Twitter history into an online diary
SArah Robbins points out Twistory – (note the correct URL – http://www.twistory.net ) It seems a rather useful tool….