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Why should educators get involved with Twitter? Here are nine reasons.

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Kids Know It Network, The Futures Channel, Science Tube, and Math-A-Tube.

Mindomo: Premium versions of this mind mapping tool come at a cost, but you can get access to the basic version for free. It allows you to add links, pictures and text to mind maps and share them over the net.

Moodle: Post and share podcasts with an interactive online community using Moodle. You can not only post your own podcasts but get access to those of others that could provide educational value to you.

Put your notes or classroom information into an audio format with these handy apps.

Some of these features might cause tutors to balk, but Elgg's creators say the collaborative, conversational exchanges in which today's students have become so fluent outside class are the best way to deliver learning inside it.

Broadly, Elgg represents a shift from aging, top-down classroom technologies like Blackboard to what e-learning practitioners call personal learning environments -- mashup spaces comprising del.icio.us feeds, blog posts, podcast widgets -- whatever resources students need to document, consume or communicate their learning across disciplines.

Le concept de web 2.0 est apparu avec une conférence « brainstorming » entre O'Reilly et Medialive International. Dale Dougherty, pionner du web et membre d'O'Reilly notait alors que bien loin de s'être effondré, le web n'avait jamais été aussi important et que nombre de nouveaux sites et applications à caractère innovant apparaissaient avec une régularité déconcertante. De plus, les quelques sociétés qui avaient survécu à l'hécatombe semblaient avoir quelque chose de commun. Se pouvait-il que le crack des « dot com » eût révélé une nouvelle ère pour le web au point que l'expression « web 2.0 » ait un sens ? Nous sommes alors tombés d'accord sur le fait que cela en avait un : la conférence web 2.0 était née.

VoiceThreads might best be described as interactive media albums. They are essentially online slide shows of images, documents, or videos that enable viewers to comment on any slide (or at any point in the video) by typing, recording an audio or video comment, or drawing on the image itself. Teachers have been early adopters of the easy-to-learn technology, which has led the company to launch Ed.VoiceThread.com, a secure site just for educators and their students, says VoiceThreads cofounder Ben Papell.

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Collaborating and Connecting with Others

50 Awesome Semantic Apps for Educators

En Italia, la joven Ministra de Educación, ha establecido que en los próximos cinco años la escuela primera y secundaria ofrezca en formato electrónico los antiguos libros de texto.

los nuevos medios digitales traerán consigo la posibilidad de que profesores y alumnos establezcan una relación más dinámica con los contenidos que  hayan de tratar, una relación necesariamente más activa, más interactiva, porque los contenidos no tendrán ya que mostrarse de manera estática en un libro en papel, sino que se convertirán en objetos digitales dinámicos manipulables y parametrizables.

Tendremos que andar vigilantes, cómo no, para valorar qué clase de capacidades ganamos y cuáles otras perdemos -como no se cansa de repetir el mismo Landow.