Tools

Cooking up a Storm in Education

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Robyn Jay (a.k.a. Bubbling Brooks) and Alexander Hayes (a.k.a Limitless Infinity) invited me to deliver the closing keynote for the Sydney E-learning event organized by Learnscope NSW on November 2nd (check your time). Here is a more complete program of the workshops offered and a link to the NSW Learnscope Blog I will be interacting … Read more

Live Blogging Platform

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How does it feel to be an independent TV broadcaster? Although still in beta, Moguluspromises to give you everything you need to launch your own live 24/7 television broadcaster, blending your webcam, video clips from YouTube, and your own original content into your own unique TV program. This may transform the dreaded ppt presentations in … Read more

Share your soul

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I have just got an invitation from Patricia Glogowski to join Shelfari , a social media website for book lovers launched last November. You can add titles to your personal bookshelf, connect with friends, browse other users’ bookshelves, recommend books and engage in book discussions. Thanks Patricia, not a bad idea, but something you could … Read more

In and out of the box

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Aaron points to the Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers. Useful for beginners, who have it all in one place, lists of links à la Web 1.0 are still useful apparently,malgre del.icio.us What I really love though is the Flickr Do More and the Toy Collection. Mashups are a fantastic invention and the possibility to … Read more

Awakening The Heroes Within

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Through Stephen Downes I got this tip to Make Internet TV, which comes in handy as I am planning to have a group of students produce their own hero journeys using one of Carol Pearson’s heroic archetypes. Planning, writing , filming and performing their own stories may prove a stimulating quest for all of us. … Read more

My students’ blogging environments

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Will Richardson’s latest post is on blogging tools and how the different platforms are becoming easier to handle and offering more and more options for educators like privacy and transparency. My classes are blogging openly using WordPress.com as the main tool to which a number of sattelites are connected (Flickr, 43Things, Places and People, del.icio.us, … Read more

Mojiti

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Lilian Starobinas , blogging at Discurso Citado, points me to Mojiti, a new platform and tool through which you can collect your favorite videos from top video sharing sites online and bring them all together to one place, transforming a passive experience into one that is engaging and exciting . It allows you to personalize … Read more

Feevy

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Rudolf Ammann pointed me to Feevy, a new cool dynamic aggregator widget by Spanish Compania de las Indias Electronicas. It allows you to display content from other blogs in your website in order of updates. Check out the result here on the right. I have added it to my sidebar.

Open Participatory Environments

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Later this morning I will be giving the presentation on Open and Participatory Webpublishing together with Patricia Glogowski, with whom I co-moderated the last EVO session on the subject. While preparing the handouts, I remembered the magazine cover and poster offered by Flickr Toys. Here are the results, which just shows how all these social … Read more