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Take a look at the list of alphabets for Nursery Schools. I think we should have a list of eTools that we can create and share. For instance, A for Audacity, B for BuddrPress, C for CMap, D for Diigo etc.. :)

challenging but i like it.

Certainly fun to do, but limiting in practice.

After reading this. I dont suggest you install dropbox or login dropbox at shared or non private computers. Please take note if you are using dropbox for important files.

An experimental WebGL demo of interactive 3D anatomy by GoogleChrome. It amazing 3D web technology are getting more advanced and more accessible. It takes a long time to load....

iPad is a fantastic tablet. But, taking note by typing is not very natural. At time you want to scribe, and Wacom Bamboo app for ipad just come in handy for this task. You can write with your finger and better still with stylus.

When I think about "infrastructure", I normally think about roads, wires, sewerage and so on. But how about educational technology and instructional design? From reading Don Norman's musings about infrastructure, I realized that if we want our technological implementations to be successfully adopted, very often it's essential to also consider the infrastructure needed to support our tech designs and implementations. Personally, I think infrastructure for education and instructional design need not always be physical things. They could be intangibles such as having to update a database, notify the relevant people in charge, call this person or that to come unlock the computer lab, etc. My mum's been a teacher for 40+ years. She's great. But she really hates the computer. Not because of the learning needed to use Microsoft Word. She's quite fine with it. But it's all the non-Microsoft Word things that she has to do - reboot, turn the computer on, manage the files, etc... - that makes her scream.  "It is time to work on infrastructure. It threatens to dominate our lives with ugliness, frustration, and work. We need to spend more time on the designs for infrastructure. We need to make it more attractive, more accessible, and easier to maintain. Infrastructure is intended to be hidden, to provide the foundation for everyday life. If we do not respond, it will dominate our lives, preventing us attending to our priory concerns and interests and instead, just keeping ahead of the maintenance demands." - Don Norman Food for thought: What are some underlying "infrastructure" (tangible and intangible) that I may encounter in an educational technology project? Are there existing infrastructure that I can take advantage of to minimize time and $? How can we minimize the amount of infrastructure maintenance needed?

"Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world." I think most of you might already be aware of TED, but thought I'd share it here anyway. It's one of the most interesting and famous websites that have speakers from all over the world to share "ideas worth spreading" speaking for a max. of 20 minutes. Do take a look around in TED and be inspired by all the great ideas in here.

An alternative to QR code. You can be more creative with the code as compared with QR. MDs take a look.

You are able to find all sort of platform for app development here from Amazon Appstore for Android Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad, Apple Mac App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and more within a dropdown menu all in a glance. Drill down to information per country. You may want to take a look or reference to this when developing app. There information like application the platforms the country have, people reached, billing methods, development supports, subscription billing or developer submission etc.

From MOE news digest: Republic Poly offers 3 -year diploma in mobile software development (Ng Jng Yng, Today, 4/11, p26)Diploma in Mobile Software Development is among the new courses to be rolled out by RP next year (Ong Jue Qi, ZB, 4/11, p14) Republic Polytechnic to offer 3 new diplomas (CNA Online, 4/11) Reports noted that Republic Polytechnic (RP) was looking to tap into the fast-growing mobile application market by offering a new diploma from next year. The three-year Diploma in Mobile Software would enable students to learn about the design and development of mobile applications used in smartphones. Reports highlighted that the students would be taught marketing strategies to sell the applications they had developed. The course would take in 40 students. Reports added that RP hoped to increase its academic intake in the next academic year. RP would be launching two other new diplomas, the Diploma in Consumer Behaviour and Research and the Diploma in Sports Coaching. RP would also be giving out 200 scholarships for the first time in the next academic year and each scholarship was worth $2,500 per academic year. ZB carried comments from P/RP that with more new courses and the new scholarships, RP was confident that it would attract outstanding Singaporean students to study at the polytechnic. CNA Online noted that RP said the new diplomas targeted students with an interest in the growing sports, marketing and mobile industries.

Comparing the old with the new Facebook Timeline. 

Here comes a new challenger

Twitter Music will be coming very soon in April

For IDs and VCDs! Quote: "there's a big difference between watching a video and learning something from it" Article goes on to suggest strategies for incorporating videos into lessons. 

Do you know if this works with Google Drive (and hopefully Google Sites)?

BTW just FYI: http://www.mindomo.com/terms_of_use.htm. Expert Software Applications Srl does not claim any ownership in any of the content, including any text, data, information, images, photographs, music, sound, video, or other material, that you upload, transmit or store in your Service account. We will not use any of your content for any purpose except to provide you with the Service, and as otherwise provided in these Terms. From time to time, [Contents publicized by the user] can be used by Mindomo at its own discretion.

Explore the use of the tool first and note its affordances and its limitations for now. If there is more than one option, we should support what is available and give users a choice.

Insightful audio interview. The interviewee mentions about the "literacy of participation" as a key factor in the upcoming shifts in our cognitive and social environments of the 21st century.

Everyone's a cynic. Pundits seem to expect Google+ to be instantly as popular as Facebook or Twitter for some reason. Personally, I think it'll just take time and am hopeful about G+. I like it. I have seen extremely high quality content from members of the Edudemic Circle (join in here).