February 2009

Low (or No) Cost Online Project Management Tools

February 22, 2009

While project management tools are by no means traditional instructional tools, they are absolutely relevant in business curriculums and other disciplines that teach project management. Of course, readers of this blog that work in administrative functions may also find themselves interested in low cost PM tools, such as those below.

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Using Internet story telling tools in education

February 15, 2009

The Internet abounds with tools that enable people of all levels of creativity to develop “digital stories”. Vuvox, One True Media, and Slideshare are just a few of these. In this posting, I a brief introduction to some of these tools, and potential uses for them in educational settings.

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Twitter & Education?

February 8, 2009

With all the buzz about Twitter these days, I figured I should look into what was going on with the potential uses of this microblogging application in the Educational arena. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised by the extent of web articles and postings about this topic.

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Web 2.0 is “the future of education”

February 8, 2009

This interesting article from Steve Hargadon’s blog captured a lot of people’s attention when he posted it late last year: http://www.stevehargadon.com/2008/03/web-20-is-future-of-education.html. Mr. Hargadon writes passionately about the topic, and identifies 10 trends under way thanks to the evolution of Web 2.0. The article generated many comments and dozens of external links to it. There is [...]

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Article about effective uses of social media in education

February 2, 2009

Article about real world application of Web 2.0 tools in an educational setting.

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The growing use of Wikis in education

February 2, 2009

The educators at my place of employment tell me that Wikis are increasingly being used in instructional applications. I quick search at Google for “wikis in education” naturally yields millions (literally) of matches, and a look at some of the top searches quickly provides evidence to support this supposition.

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