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.
JotSpot: Working in a group just became easier with this online wiki tool that allows students to share notes, project ideas and information in an easily accessible format.
teachers with multiple sections and/or preps can easily customize
information/ resources/ activities using Diigo's groups, lists, and
conversations. This can all even be done at the time that a bookmark
is made (I could send the bookmark to my 7th grade math group/ list,
my pre-algebra group/ list, but not my 7th grade social studies group)
In the meantime, here are some of the suggestions folks have shared and
I note them here to summarize the ideas for myself...I hope the summary
is useful to you
The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2008 conference theme is "Amplifying Possibilities". This year's conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 13, 2008. The following two weeks, October 20-24 and October 27-31, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view. Live Events in the form of three "Fireside Chats" and a culminating "When Night Falls" event will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during the conference as well as asynchronous conversations.
It's the question of the year: What makes a great teacher?
Here's one effort to sort out the qualities that all great teachers have. I suspect that any effort to create a definitive list is doomed to fail because great teachers are as different as the students they teach.
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.
A web 2.0 oferece-nos uma visão de maior proximidade relativamente ao Outro, torna-nos mais cidadãos do mundo. O Twitter reforça essa faceta, sem dúvida.
Que a reflexão sobre a acção é importante, ninguém duvida. Mas o Twitter não me parece que favoreça a reflexão...
Lembro um filósofo francês (Foulcault? Delleuze?...) que, nos anos 60, já afirmava haver demasiada conversa e que a sabedoria exige silêncio. Quem fala (twitta) muito não terá tempo para pensar no que diz...
Qualidade assegurada? Só se for nos twitts do género: "Bom, pessoal, agora vou tomar um café. Até já."
Então e o socialbookmarking? Para que serve?...
Ah, já sei: o Twitter é o socialbookmarking dos preguiçosos. eh eh eh...
8. Communicate, communicate, communicateExpressing yourself in 140 characters is a great discipline.
Resta-me agradecer à autora esta oportunidade para exercitar o humor e enganar a Crise.
Já agora, também agradeço que não tenha defendido o Twitter como ferramenta que promove a escrita. É que o Twitter tem a ver com tudo menos com escrita. É apenas conversa. Tudo muito oral. Sem chegar a vias de facto.
Unlike a traditional blended learning environment where those who learn are fed from one source, a learning ecosystem balances those organisms (people) with the environment (organization, culture, tools).
what is the difference between blended learning and creating a learning ecosystem? Blended learning takes on the funnel mentality. All knowledge must funnel through the learning department’s people, systems, processes, packages and must be measured in standard ways as it goes through. If it does not route and measure in these ways it is out of our circle of influence.
In a learning ecosystem the environment is created so that learning just happens. It is a part of work rather than separate from it. It includes traditional blended learning when appropriate (for each piece does not lose its significance) but the funnel, for the most part, is gone. Formal learning intersects with social learning intersects with informal learning intersects with traditional learning…
Instead of, “I am going to learning” it is “I am always learning.”
We must strategically create learning ecosystems within our organizations where formal courses of all kinds, social interactions using all mediums and all types of informal learning blend together.