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Use your voice to connect with on-line friends: talking photo, voice player, voice blogs

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George Siemens' collection of interesting articles, mainly about connectivism.

"In the original 2004 article I stated: "The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today. A real challenge for any learning theory is to actuate known knowledge at the point of application" (Conclusion section, � 1). I find Verhagen�s (2006) critique falls at precisely this point.

The core of what I wrote in the initial article is still valid: that learning is a network phenomenon, influenced (aided) by socialization and technology. Two years is a lifetime in the educational technology space. Two years ago, web 2.0 was just at the beginning of the hype cycle. Blogs, wikis, and RSS�now prominent terms at most educational conferences�were still the sandbox of learning technology geeks. Podcasting was not yet prominent. YouTube didn't exist. Google had not released its suite of web-based tools. Google Earth was not yet on the desktops of children and executives alike�each thrilled to view their house, school, or business in satellite images. Learning Management Systems still held the starting point of most elearning initiatives. Moodle was not yet prominent, and the term PLEs (personal learning environments) did not exist. In two years, our small space of educational technology evolved�perhaps exploded is a more accurate term."

"Collect up gifs related to any vocabulary area you want to teach or revise. Embed them in an html page on your desk top and start a collection. Each time you add new ones send the html page to your students. (They will need to have a live connection on their computer to be able to view the gifs)
Ask them to make notes of any words they relate to the images they see."

This is another neat little tool with notes on how to use it from the very extensive collection by Nik Peachey. I'd suggest having the students make animated vocabulary gifs of words they want to learn/find useful.

PurposeGames.com is host to educational quiz and trivia games created by its members. In just a few minutes, you can create your very own game to share with your friends!.


Play games and tournaments to compete against your friends, co-workers, and classmates! Become the reigning champion of your community!


The easiest way to learn something is to have fun while doing it! Geography, Science, and Languages, any subject is easier and more fun to learn by playing a quiz game!

Automatic captions in YouTube in many languages
PLUS: You can type up your own captions and upload and YouTube times them automatically through text-to-speech. Then, you can download the text file with the timings next to the captions.
If this really works, wow!

How to Manage a Group Project in Google Wave - Google Wave - Lifehacker

Archiving tweets with a software called Archivist. It needs to be downloaded and installed. PC only

E-learning and Web 2.0 tools for schools
Mindmap by category (blogging, collaboration, audio, etc)

Building Community in your classroom with web 2.0 tools.

Certainly something to work on and see how can aid our particular situations. Thanks for the tip.
Juan

Another way of presenting information.

Recordings and PowerPoint presentations of the plenary speakers.

Thanks, Nergiz!
This is a great addition to the CALL IS library!
--Elizabeth