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I was pondering Learning Management Systems this morning. I do that way too much.  Maybe Google Wave will get released soon and it really will be able to deliver on the hype and all my problems will be solved!  But until then… got to ponder…. FireFox plug-ins are pretty nifty little deals.  And many of [...]

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01 Jun, 2009

Matt CrosslinGoogle Nods to the Future With Wave

Posted by: Matt Crosslin In: Online Tools|Web 2.0

Everything Google does gets hype.  So you probably already read all there is known (so far) about Google Wave.  For the two anti-Google people out there in the world that just refuse to read anything about Google, it is said to be a new way to communicate online, based on new concepts of how we [...]

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06 May, 2009

Shaun LongstreetTo honor free comic day…

Posted by: Shaun Longstreet In: Online Tools|Pedagogy|Random|Web 2.0

As many of the more geeky EduGeek readers know, last Saturday was Free Comic Book Day. I took advantage of this by catching up on Marvel’s fun and compelling Sinister Six (which was not free, by the way). This event has me thinking of a tool that I have used in the past which allows [...]

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21 Apr, 2009

Shaun LongstreetIntroducing Cool Iris

Posted by: Shaun Longstreet In: Online Tools|Pedagogy

When we want to move our student’s learning environment into the ether of the web, we can be hard pressed to go beyond simply assigning more reading.  In the days of multimedia, interactivity and all things web 2.0, assigning links to on-line articles will not cause many students to leap up for their netbooks with [...]

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Sorry for the very long delay in posting. The new job and my one-year-old are taking up 113% of my time.  Just wanted to let you know about a new tool a co-worker discovered at Educause Southwest Regional.  Drop.io is a file hosting site that gives users the ability to upload images, documents, audio, video, [...]

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06 Jan, 2009

Matt CrosslinMore Details on The Google Books Project

Posted by: Matt Crosslin In: Online Tools

Happy New Year!  With a new year comes more buzz from Google.  Did you really expect anything less?  New York Times has an interesting article about the future of the Google Book search project and what it can mean for education.  Now that Google has settled various lawsuits surrounding the project and made all parties [...]

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13 Aug, 2008

Katrina AdamsGoogle Docs now does surveys

Posted by: Katrina Adams In: Online Tools|Web 2.0

Thanks (again) to Ramblings of a Technology Coordinator for another great find! Did you know that Google Docs now supports survey-creation with data collection? I apologize if this is old news, but Google has created a very nice, very easy interface for creating and publishing surveys. Basically, you create a blank spreadsheet within Google Docs, [...]

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Google has been bit by the social bug. A big, crazy, infectious social bug. Social networking is becoming a part of everything they do. I was recently working on an online Google Presentation for an upcoming conference presentation and noticed that GTalk is integrated in to Google Presentations. You can chat with people online as [...]

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I get weekly emails toting some service that is going to take e-learning to the next level, several steps forward, into the next century, etc. If this was even the case half the time I get a notice, e-learning would already be in the 25th century. But, obviously we’re not there yet. So I wanted [...]

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24 Apr, 2008

Matt CrosslinTeaching a Class Entirely Through YouTube

Posted by: Matt Crosslin In: Online Tools|Policy|Web 2.0

I read an interesting article on Wired Campus today called “What Happens When a Course Is Taught Entirely via YouTube?” The basic idea was that a class was taught entirely through YouTube – class interactions were filmed and posted, discussions happened through comments, etc. Of course, this design does violate just about every Instructional Design [...]

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