A free ebook on how professional associations and groups can use web2.0 tech for elearning solutions. Examples of blogging, podcasting, and course development tools.
A free ebook on how professional associations and groups can use web2.0 tech for elearning solutions. Examples of blogging, podcasting, and course development tools. By Jeff Thomas Cobb. Tagoras.com also has podcasts on elearning and associations.
If you don't put tribe leaders in place, the community will fall away," he says, adding that the tool needs to be relevant to individual users.
the time has come for companies to stop locking down computers and observe which social technologies are preferred and engaged by employees.
"We need to focus on the human being part of the equation,"
Today's collaboration tools need to be intuitive, work in short bursts and have a robust databank that is easy to search,
"Still trying to get your employees to embrace the company wiki and other recent collaboration tools? Sorry, the world has moved on. Four years since the birth of "Enterprise 2.0", many wikis have been abandoned, as companies find it takes more to enthuse staff to share than just building a platform and expecting them to come."
"Discuss web-site or product interfaces with your team. Add visual materials and screenshots, mark-up, leave comments in mini-chat. Create simple sketches or complex infographics using shapes, texts and mark-up tools. Visualize any data and share it with others. Upload pictures and drawings of interior and exterior, discuss your design projects with your colleagues and clients using comments and chat. Plan and discuss your projects in RealtimeBoard - add your Google Docs and PDF-presentations, create mindmaps and collaborate in real time. Use business model template to structure your business activity. Add files, texts, pictures, comments and work together.
"TimelineJS - Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use. It can pull in media from different sources and has built in support for:
Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Wikipedia, SoundCloud and more media types in the future.
Creating one is as easy as filling in a Google spreadsheet or as detailed as JSON."
Student blogging is not a project, but a process. We are continuously striving to refine, improve and re-evaluate.
As I am meeting with teachers individually, I can't stress enough the importance of READING other blogs (professional, student, blogs about your hobby, blogs about other interests you have etc.). I am trying to filter and funnel quality blogs in education, their grade level and areas of interest to them as I come across them, so they can build a quality RSS Reader. BUT.. we need their help in having a basic understanding of blogs, its pedagogical uses, as a platform of a new writing genre (digital writing) and how our blogfolios fit into your curriculum and the BIG PICTURE of LEARNING. The blogfolios are not a platform to use only for a particular subject, but should give evidence of learning for each student.
ThingLink helps you create and discover rich images.
Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more!
Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Follow image channels from your favorite bands, bloggers and friends. Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow.
This looks great images can be annotated and embedded into a wiki or blog etc.
This project seeks to empower the worldwide population of self-motivated learners who use digital media to connect with each other, to co-construct knowledge, to co-learn. Co-learning is ancient; the capacity for learning by imitation and more, to teach others what we know, is the essence of human culture. We are human because we learn together. Today, however, the advent of digital production media and distribution/communication networks has raised the power and potential of co-learning to a new level.
"Flip Web Content Into Video Lessons
Use Soo Meta for your learning stories, documentaries, summaries, compilations, coverage or for your research & curation work."
"Domo Animate (from the creators of Go Animate) is a school-friendly version of Go Animate for pupils to create animations free online. It lets pupils animate characters of their choice and add music and sound effects from a bank of sounds. Pupils can add speech as text bubbles and add interactive elemtns for story-telling activities. "
"For the teacher, leaving a comment on students work is as simple as playing the slides and clicking on the text, voice or web camera comment button at the bottom of the page."