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Articles tagged "web 2.0"

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1 April 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 useful and [...]

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22 February 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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12 June 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 titles to different segments of [...]

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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 think [...]

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2 May 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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19 February 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 about [...]

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