Getting Started with Educational Podcasts for Portable Education: Basic Software and Tools
It is a very informative post about the topic. I’m considering trying some tools the author suggested.
The post is from XplanaZine, a very good weblog with audio about online learning, technology, students, and many other interesting topics.
Stagecast Creator is an educational tool that can empower young children (primary school level) to create interactive simulations, stories, and games, with ease and fun.
Stagecast Creator is a unique product that kids love to use. It bridges two important categories of software, creativity and thinking skill development. It is used in computer labs, classrooms, technology camps, after school programs, and homes.
With Stagecast Creator, girls and boys alike use the computer mouse to create simulations and games completely visually, without a programming language. The only limit is their imagination.
NIE stands for National Institute of Education.
NTU stands for Nanyang Technological University.
“Learning Sciences and Technologies” is an interdisciplinary academic group which focuses on understanding learning in social-cultural contexts with the goal of designing and integrating learning environments and technologies.
Socialtext is a company that offers an enterprise-class-hosted wiki. It has more than 100 customers, of which 20 are in the Fortune 500 (statistics from news.com.com). They use Socialtext to accelerate project cycles and help groups communicate more effectively than with email. One of the company slogan is:
Socialtext is the quickest way to get everyone on the same page.
I have been using a wiki as the online course management system for a distance-learning course I’m responsible for. I think I can learn something form Socialtext.
Why do wikis work? Ross Mayfield, co-founder and chief executive officer of Socialtext, said: “A wiki works because of its simplicity. Our challenge is to make something as easy to use as e-mail with better dynamics for collaboration. ”
Do you know you have many choices?
The OSSwin Project brings together all of the Open Source applications that work on the Microsoft Windows platform.
I have good experience with and enjoy the following, at least,
First, I discoverd FeedWordPress, a WordPress plugin.
Second, I followed the installation guide to install it in my WordPress.
Third, for testing purpose, I set the link category that FeedWordPress will syndicate links from to be “WordPress”. This link catagory contains 8 links to WordPress people.
Forth, I invoked update-feeds.php.
After that, my blog increased its volume of contents by a lot more posts from others’ blogs, as well as some more authors. All of these contents did insert into the database of my blog.
The good thing is I knew what is feed aggregrators and aggregrator blog finally. This is a good example of learn by practice and experience. I did not read very detail and carefully about the FeedWordPress before I gave it a try. Originally, I just wanted to try something like Edu_Rss.
It took me more than one hour to roll back my weblog to its earlier status, because I did not practise frequent backup of my WordPress database.