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InfoComm India presents AV systems integrators, as well as business owners and IT managers an excellent opportunity to find out how you can leverage on Pro AV communications technology in your corporate or marketing strategies for your business or organizational success.

"LectureTools is a student response system that also allows students to take notes linked with the slides and videos presented in class, answer instructor generated questions and pose questions to the instructor. All notes, questions and activities are instantly synchronized with the LectureTools web application."

"The Volume Purchase Program makes it easy for educational institutions to purchase iOS apps in volume and distribute those apps to users. The Volume Purchase Program also allows app developers to offer special pricing for purchases of 20 apps or more."

"Matterhorn is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Institutions will use Matterhorn to produce lecture recordings, manage existing video, serve designated distribution channels, and provide user interfaces to engage students with educational videos. "

Finally an alternative to incredibly expensive lecture capture and over technical podcasting software.

Web-based flashcard program. Create and share your own flashcards.

Web-based flashcard program. Create and share your own flashcards.

Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.

Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.

I have used this tool for the past 3 months, it's nothing less than excellent. No need for zips drives or problems like: "darn, I have that file on another computer". You can get to all of your files on any computer that you load Dropbox onto. I believe that you can sync up to 5 computers under one FREE account.

'Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara, meaning 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Māori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.'

Twitter memes. Global tags for Twitter. Twemes.com follows Twitter.com tweets (messages) that have embedded tags that start with a # character. These are sometimes called hashtags but we like to use the term twemes. Through the use of twemes, we can all view what people are talking about across the whole Twitter universe. In some sense, this can be thought of as an adhoc chatroom. We also pull in recent public photos from Flickr and public bookmarks from Del.icio.us. Twemes.com is particularly useful for keeping up on the real-time activities associated with a live event such as a conference.

Create Your Own Video Site

Examples of Web 2.0 tools being used in classrooms

Free Online Meetings. It's also an easy screen sharing tool. FREE!

If anyone uses this i would be interested in knowing what you think about it!