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This takes the popular Inspiration concept/mind mapping one step further : Designed for professionals and college students, WebspirationPRO™ is a visual thinking and cloud-computing productivity tool, dedicated to promoting success in a knowledge-based society. WebspirationPRO gives you everything you need to brainstorm ideas, organize information, solve problems, plan projects, write, study and communicate more effectively. With WebspirationPRO, work is always available and securely stored online.

While reading an article this week, I was stuck on trying to grasp what Ontology was. After looking at several search results, images, and videos, this is the one that has helped the most - maybe all the rest I saw now makes sense seeing this?

I was confused at first, too, because although I am familiar with this concept in philosophy, it didn't seem to fit what was being described in the articles. This video was helpful-thank you!

This is an interesting concept, I had not heard of microlearning before today. It sounds like there is some merit to it, based on this article, but I do wonder how easy it could be to use ineffectively in terms of corporate trainings. I worry it could be easy to see low cost numbers and embrace the concept without ensuring learning gains are still taking place.

This is a great tool to enhance interaction in the online classroom. It allows the creation of avatars with the addition of voice so you can interact with your students in ways that capture attention, motivate interaction and helps explain concepts to key audiences from varying perspectives.

Wow, I really like this tool, seems like Voki could improve all kinds of classes, especially foreign language or reading classes for students that may get nervous speaking aloud. Is there a tool on the teacher's side though that prints out a report of the scores on the oral tests that the students spoke of? Just curious....thanks. (O:

Creative Commons is a way of protecting the rights to your work as you share it online. It's an alternate to traditional copyright, and it has a variety of options (including remixing) for permissions/use. Flickr makes use of CC licenses, as do many repositories. Totally worth checking out.

This, among other things, is taking our very restrictive concept of ownership to a much more productive and logical level, especially in this age of global knowledge. Many praises for CC.

A Google a Day provides daily trivia, and can be a fun way to teach your students important online research skills.

Hi Fabrizio, I just tried the Google a Day and I like the concept very much. However, unless I was doing something wrong, I found it cumbersome to do the research and get back to the original question. In addition, when I tried to access Google Map, which was needed for answering today's question, it said it would not support it in the Google a Day window. So I opend GM up in another window. Did you experience something similiar? With that being said, I think the idea is great, especially since they give you tips and hints at how to find the answer. I think researching tips and exercises are very important, even for graduate students. You can never get enough practice in researching topics. Thanks for sharing this, I really liked it.

When I type a research on the search box it opens a pop-up window with the data, so I have two pages open, the A Google a Day one and the search one. I think it works pretty well on Chrome, I didn't have any problem, but I haven't tried it with other browsers. A Google a Day is fun and challenging; however, I don't think you can learn too much from your answers, they are too general. Maybe in the future there will be a way to customize it and create your own challenges, it would be really interesting to use with our students/learners.

This is a very informative blog post that examines the difference between collections and curations. Admittedly, I have never given the subject too much thought, but the author explains it in a way that highlights concepts that differentiate the two. Some notable points made are that curations involve deeper critical thinking skills, they can be defined as "purposeful collections" and subjective based on the understanding of the curator.

I have been thinking about collection versus curation in our readings this week. Your article made me think about a discussion we have at home. My husband is a collector and he talks often about how museums only show, curate certain pieces. He often comments that he hesitates to donate to a museum because it could be such that the pieces are never shown or are sold. I think this ties into the subjective nature.

I appreciate the explanation in this article about context collapse. It makes sense. This article definitely made me want to go back and check privacy settings and to think more about my likes.