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p2p networked learning platform

Skillshare is a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone. It is a community of peers centered around learning. The platform helps make the exchange of knowledge easy, enriching and collaborative. Pedagogical uses: information sharing, creation of a class advanced level Tags: not free, e-learning, sharing informations

interesting description of open source learning. roles. responsibilities. tasks. etc.

This open source product allow teachers and students to personalize their personal learning environment with easy access to many different tools in a friendly way. Pedagogical uses: the students can install and manage their own personal environment where find favorite tools for communicating, sharing, creating, ...

Teachers and students have access to the software, they can learn about the programming, tailor it to their requirements. By discussing the problems and suggested solutions with a greater group all the members can learn from each other. Pedagogical uses: collaborative work on these issues, even in transnational projects

lists of annotated tools including public learning sites instructional tools social and collaborative spaces collaboration and sharing tools social learning tools image, audio and video tools presentation tools video conferencing, sreensharing tools ... information whether the tool is for free or to purchase pedagogical uses: variety of tools to integrate in one's personal learning environment or to facilitate (transnational) projects

Learning is Personal - Goalbook helps teams of educators, students, and parents collaborate around personal learning plans.

BadgeStack is a social learning tool that encourages people to master new skills and get involved in your community. Plus it's fun.

LeMill is primary a tool for trainers. You have to register for free, that you can use it. It is a tool for finding, authoring and sharing open educational resources. 18759 teachers from 67 countries share 29838 learning resources in 49 languages. Only the Greek lanuage is missing. Pedagogical uses: find, develop educational learning materials, and work on them with other trainers tag: trainer, learning materials

The Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. Our current projects are here but plenty more are on the way. If you're new to the Zooniverse, we suggest picking a project and diving in - the same account will get you into all of our projects, and you can keep track of what you've contributed by watching 'My Zooniverse'. The Zooniverse and the suite of projects it contains is produced, maintained and developed by the Citizen Science Alliance. The member institutions of the CSA work with many academic and other partners around the world to produce projects that use the efforts and ability of volunteers to help scientists and researchers deal with the flood of data that confronts them.

Learn about science in a visual and interesting way through educational resources provided for exceptional science projects . Pedagogical uses: provide an excellent resource for inquiry-based learning within the classroom or for home-school groups

Mozilla's Thimble tool makes making websites and learning HTML and CSS easy. You can pick a project, edit its CSS and HTML, and directly see the results in your browser. MOZILLA THIMBLE Thimble makes it ridiculously simple to create your own web pages. Write and edit HTML and CSS right in your browser. Instantly preview your work. Then host and share your finished pages with a single click. Easy, huh?"

The idea of Climarks is that through each other, we can learn, understand and enjoy more than we could alone. On Clipmarks.com, you can see clips of text, images or video about all sorts of topics that people find while surfing the web.As you find people who post clips that interest you, make them a Guide Pedagogical uses: creativity, general knowledge, languge learning

Collaborative environment for your school to connect with people of common interests all around the world. Share your library, chats, webconference, etc. Pedagogical uses: Collaborative projects with people from other cities or countries related to a common subject. Create a space of your classroom and find other students from other schools to share interests.

LyricsTraining is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills through the music videos and lyrics of your favorite songs. You are ask to fill in the missing letters / words in the text below the video. Pedagogical use: fun language training, fostering the listening comprehension by using favorite songs

a bit dated (not all links work anymore) but still very rich resource on using technology in education. 

very nice explanation about the difficulty (and value) of making timelines in a learning context.

Interesting information about memory, learning and funny games to train your brain !! Have you ever played to Simon or Memory,..Try them! Pedagogical uses: learners can use these games just to train their brains playing.

Jott to Self - Send emails to yourself Jott Reminders - Get text message and email reminders Jott to List - Add items to your to-do list Jott to Someone Else - Send emails and texts to your contacts Jott to Group - Email and text a group of contacts Jott to Link - Send messages to web services Messagingon the go -- Reminders at work -- Lists at home -- Web services at play

speech recognition software that allows obtaining written documents. Not free, but educational licenses. Pedagogical uses: Improve core skills for students * Provide greater independence for students with physical disabilities * Level the playing field for students with learning disabilities * Improve writing fluency for students learning English * Increase productity in students

InterLoc realises Dialogue Games for learning and thinking through combining synchronous group interaction and personal activities. The games promote critical and creative discussion, reasoned dialogue and collective inquiry within the digital landscape.

In this project, you can make your plants send messages to Twitter, for example when they are thirsty. Pedagogical uses: learn about electronics, programming, media, sensor technology, collaboration Pros: creative, useful knowledge, innovation Cons: difficult, high learning curve, some equipment needed (to be purchased online)

overview of tools used for learning

web site focussed on education web 2.0 with links to teachers web 2.0 sites and interesting web 2.0tools to be used in class related to virtual office, Word processing, spreadsheet, image creation, maps, blogs, audio/podcasting, blogs, … Pedagogical uses: creating , presenting, create podcasts, ,...

"Course Authoring Tools for eLearning developers and features for the masses" - useful reference list for course authoring tools.

very nice website that contains lots of good tutorials about design.

Teachers can ask students who are interested in design, to follow one of the beginner tutorials and create a design, model or drawing of a car, building, or something else they like.