Articles tagged "web 2.0"

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June 16, 2010 Managing appointments online using free web tools

Do you need your students to make an appointment with you? Or maybe you want to set up a meeting and need to know what the best date/time based on everyone’s availability is? Do you want to get rid of paper sign up sheets? There are a few online options available, most of which offer [...]

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April 1, 2009 What About Wikis?

Wikis are a sort of social software, which allow you create a website where other people can easily edit and add content. You may be thinking about using a wiki to support your course, to share information with colleagues, or, for example, as a repository for service information of some kind. Wikis can be very [...]

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February 22, 2008 Podcasting

Regular podcasts are now commonplace in the news, entertainment and increasingly in teaching and learning. If you are interested in setting up your own podcast or want to know what they are, please see our resources below as a starting point. How to Podcast Using the Wimba Podcaster

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June 12, 2007 Free Tools: Motionbox

See: http://www.motionbox.com/welcome Very brief note on this. It looks like a fantastic online system for sharing videos. For me it has a few notable advantages: The video can be secure and shared as you would like It displays a ‘thumbnail’ view of the video, so it’s much easier to navigate You can add notes and [...]

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Free Tools: MindMeister

We’ve been recommended a few free online tools recently so I thought I should include a few here. Mindmeister is a free online collaborative mind mapping tool. We’ve had quite a lot of interest in mind mapping and flowchart creation tools over the last year or so. Personally I find these quite cumbersome as I [...]

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May 2, 2007 What the h*ll is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is an ongoing interest of anybody involved with learning technologies. As a rather pithy buzzword it succinctly refers to both the recent technological changes in the use of IT and the cultural shifts that have come about as a result. As a rather meaningless marketing buzzword it refers to pretty much any web [...]

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February 19, 2007 Social Software and traditional teaching

Just a very quick post to an article online by Christopher D. Sessums that I found quite interesting: http://elgg.net/csessums/weblog/151698.html I think it caught my attention as, in one form or another, it’s a topic that’s been appearing quite a lot recently in our staff development sessions. There have been a lot of discussions about concerns [...]

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