A recent Educause Review article discusses the advantages of creating a mashup of Web 2.0 tools with current course management systems — essentially creating CMS 2.0 — enabling learners to experience a more constructive learning environment without throwing away the traditional (“Web 1.0″) CMS tools that can still be used successfully in teaching. Tweet This [...]
I love conferences. They’re great for meeting people, sharing new ideas, participating in guerrilla advertising for your new edugeekjournal blog … and sneaking a peak at what sites educators are looking at. As I was listening to a session, I noticed the person in front of me was visiting a site called TeacherTube that looked [...]
I’d like to reflect on the Texas Distance Learning Association’s (TXDLA) 10th annual conference for a minute. This was my 5th time going and, in my opinion, this is one of the “can’t miss” conferences held each year. This year I think it drew somewhere near a thousand educators. Here are a few observations: Moodle [...]
24 Mar, 2007
OpenAcademic: Do We Have a Revolution Here?Posted by: Matt Crosslin In: Learning Management Systems|Web 2.0
I’m not sure what to think of this one. It is still too new to really know. But I’m interested to see where it goes. I was in a conversation recently in a listserv (Listserv? Did I just way that? Yep, they still exist…) about the differences between Moodle and Drupal. Some one popped in [...]
What is Home? According to PlayStation’s recent press release: “Home is a real-time 3D, networked community that serves as a meeting place for PS3 users from around the world, where they can interact, communicate, join online games, shop, share content and even build and show off their own personal spaces.” Sound familiar? Although very similar [...]
23 Mar, 2007
Why Wikipedia Makes a Great Research SourcePosted by: Matt Crosslin In: Current Events|Web 2.0
The “controversy” over Wikipedia has now hit the local evening news. I guess that means that it is big time now. A typical Wikipeida story now seems to go like this: professors or teachers somewhere have decided to ban Wikipedia as a legitimate research source. They have finally discovered that there are actual errors there. [...]
Flash is amazing. I use it to create interactive learning objects and online lectures. The only problem is that I have to use “cheater” programs like Swish http://www.swishzone.com/index.php or Camtasia http://techsmith.com/camtasia.asp to get the results that I want. Yesterday I sat down and attempted to put together a simple self-graded, multiple choice quiz in Flash. [...]
(I emailed this to Matt last week, and I just realized that it’s pretty relevant to our little blog here…) I’m not sure who the folks are who are giving out the awards, but the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards were announced recently. This is a good place to find some online tools you might not [...]
Digital native – digital immigrant. They are two hot “buzz-words” in the world of Ed Tech right now. And two of the more misunderstood words, I think. The concept is, if you were born near to or after the invention of certain technologies, you will be more comfortable with them. If you were born before [...]
I’m *sure* there are educational applications for this. I’m just too busy drooling over it to think of any. This was just too wonderfully geeky for me not to post. Tweet This Post
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