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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

very cool community making cool designs

Quirky offers three different areas: You can help to develop new products of and product ideas of all different kinds. You can buy products. You can promote products via facebook and twitter. Last you can be a part of the community. Pedagogical uses:languages skills, creative designing, tag: Intermediate level, English languag skills requierd, art

cool open source video recording and editing software

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) Pedagogical uses: creation of video-based information products, video presentations, video tutorials intermediate level Tags: free, video, creativity

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)