Posted in Fun, Learning Series on August 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
URL: http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/New York Times (NYT) Book Review: The Cult of the Amateur (Amazon)
“…Here you’ll see which blogs are currently making an impact in the blogosphere. The blogs you see here are all nominated and voted on by users like yourself!”
I discovered by accident(al learning) the ‘Blogger’s Choice Awards’ (site) yesterday, when I was checking out [...]
Posted in Conference on August 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
URL: http://www.learning2.net.cn/
When, Where, What, Who, Why, How?
Missing Act?I am perplexed (puzzled) that Stephen Downes is not one of the presenters or participants. He is probably busy with some research or other conferences. Well, I suppose I am still learning!
Any Juice?Check out the reflections by the Learning Gurus (Wesley Fryer, Jamie McKenzie, Will Richardson, etc.) [...]
Posted in educational gaming, learning tools on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
URL: http://www.classtools.net/
“Create educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! ClassTools.net is a FREE website allowing teachers and students to create interactive Flash diagrams for learning and revising material.”
Learning while having fun Playing Games!This is an online educational game creator that you can have a [...]
Posted in OER/FREE, learning skills, teaching and learning on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Study Guides & Strategies: http://www.studygs.net/Exercises & Games: http://www.studygs.net/exercises.htmThinking Like a Genius: http://www.studygs.net/genius.htm
Study Guides & Strategies
“The Study Guides and Strategies web site is authored, maintained and supported by Joe Landsberger as an independent educational public service. Collaborative projects are developed across institutional, cultural and national boundaries. I resist advertising, registration, and distracting graphics or features that [...]
Posted in OER/FREE, podcasts, teaching and learning, videos on August 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
URL: http://www.teachertube.com/
“TeacherTube was officially launched on March 6, 2007. Their goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. They seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. [...]
Posted in e-books, e-learning, learning tools on August 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
URL: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/resources/freebooks.html
Jane Knight’s Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies site has a great webpage on a growing list of free books and free chapters from printed books about e-learning. Currently, you can find the following free e-books there (Check the URL above for the latest update):
Informal Learning (Chapter 1 only) – Jay Cross
The Unofficial Complete [...]
Posted in learning tools on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Author: Dr. Clayton R. Wright
Selecting an Open-Source Online Course Development and Delivery Platform: An Academic Perspective: http://pcf4.dec.uwi.edu/viewpaper.php?id=278 (PDF Version)
Criteria for Evaluating the Quality of Online Courses: http://elearning.typepad.com/thelearnedman/ID/evaluatingcourses.pdf (PDF)
Educational Technology and Related Educational Conferences: http://cider.athabascau.ca/events/conferences/
Selecting an Open-Source Online Course Development and Delivery Platform: An Academic Perspective (presented at PCF4)“(Abstract) Increasingly, educators are implementing course [...]
Posted in OER/FREE on August 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Eureka Project:http://eureka.ntic.org/Eureka (English Version): http://en.eureka.ntic.org/Guided Tour:http://eureka.ntic.org/videos/guided_tour.mov
“The Eureka project is an initiative of Vitrine Technologie-Éducation within the framework of a Quebec-Wallonia-Brussels joint venture. Its’ main objective is to promote the sharing and exchange of learning object resources. It provides a collective catalog of teaching and learning resources gathered by various organizations involved in the production of [...]
Posted in University, e-books, teaching and learning on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
National University of Singapore (NUS)Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning (CDTL)
CDTL: http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/
e-Books (Publications) Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/handbook/Ideas on Teaching: http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/Ideas/The Write Right Guide: http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/wrg/
The Effective Student: http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/ufm/sitemap.htm
(In addition, check out the inspiring CDTLink Newsletter, too)
Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn (Handbook on Teaching) – “…aims to provide [...]
Posted in learning tools on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Schoolr: http://www.schoolr.com/Schoolr’s Blog: http://schoolr.wordpress.com/
This All-In-One search tool enables you to access several I-always-use sites (to find stuff) from one site, which currently include Reference.com family, Google, Wikipedia, Acrnonym Finder, Urban Dictionary, SparkNotes, NCSU, and unitconversion (Hopefully Answers.com and other juicy search sites could be added to the list soon). Since the search fields on Schoolr [...]
