Learning - Educational Technologies - Articles Archive
from April 28, 2008 to March 10, 2008

Online collaboration tools keep coming, and the more of them I see, the more I feel collaboration is going to be a major, critical part of our future work. Contributing collaboratively, sharing, co-editing, co-distributing, are becoming more and more standard features and facilities in every single ... read more

New media technologies increasingly shape the way we work, think, interact, communicate. Understanding, dissecting, questioning and working with them is inevitable for those who seriously want to get greater knowledge and control over their use and potential. George Siemens, who is an educational technologies researcher and scholar, ... read more

Pulling together a great brainstorming session is often much more difficult than breaking one apart, as the techniques required to make a brainstorming session effective are generally different to the way we normally act during spontaneous conversations. But given enough desire, awareness and a positive mind-sharing ... read more

You have probably seen several times in the past, those immersive digital photographs in which you can easily look up and down and turn your vision all around in full 360° glory. The 360° panoramic new year's eve of 2003 in Times Square, New York, has ... read more

Online collaboration tools are just popping up at every corner. Very soon, it will be hard to find an application that has no collaboration features. This week, in my explorer bag I have got some cool new collaboration tools ready to be used. For example, if ... read more

An endless list of great resources, links to great journalistic articles and to memorable quotes, are what transform this weekly digest of blog posts by George Siemens into a multidimensional lens through which you can gather yet another glimpse of the many changes taking place all ... read more

Knowing, understanding, making sense of how new technology, media and people work, learn and interact together is the focus of this weekly digest authored by George Siemens and reprinted with his benediction here on Master New Media. Generally published on Saturday, this weekly report analyzes key issues ... read more

Want to collaborate online in real-time? Look what I have found this time: Set up a free video conference session or a VoIP group call with up to nine people, then record any Skype conversation in standard MP3 format, get into the conversation by chatting ... read more

Share and transfer large, huge files without using email, send text and voice messages and share any type of document online in real-time. If you want to collaborate online I have always new tools to help you do more and with greater ease. Here my selected toolset ... read more

Understanding new media and communication technologies by sharing, networking and engaging in meaningful conversations is what this weekly digest, curated by connectivism guru George Siemens is all about. Being connected, learning from others and understanding how different modes of interaction with content and people can deeply ... read more

Edit your existing online documents anywhere, even without an Internet connection. Google Docs now allows you to view and edit your documents offline, without an internet connection. "You no longer have to fret if you're working on a document and suddenly the Internet cuts out. You ... read more

Create your own videoconferencing room, annotate and mark up multimedia files and easily record all of your Skype or other VoIP calls. More juicy stuff as I have new tools also to send and share very large files without using email. All of the above and ... read more

Have a voice conference while co-browsing any web site and whiteboarding with your team. Better yet: connect to all major instant messaging networks from one new service, share Flickr pictures in real-time while you are chatting, and send any type of file or document without using ... read more

Extending Internet reach and accessibility while making it more resilient, and immune to possible controls and manipulations has been one of the major concerns addressed, and although some significant steps forward, at least in terms of awareness, have been made in this direction, bridging the digital ... read more

Online collaboration tools to share access or let other people remote control your computer, to help you share documents, to send files, and to chat on all major instant messaging services. All in this week Sharewood Picnic. Here my selected online collaboration tools for this week: Yugma Skype ... read more

Learning better, understanding deeper, finding new ways to share and educate others are some of the key focus areas George Siemens takes us to during this weekly digest of interesting bits, news, tools and resources he collects and introduces in his daily blog posts. In this week ... read more

Brainstorming, nonetheless the popularity of the term, is one of the most challenging collaborative activities to carry out in a small group. While most people think they know how to brainstorm, very few have really gotten the basic rules needed to make a brainstorming session work ... read more

In this Sharewood Picnic: collaboration tools for creating online video conferencing chat rooms for free, as well as tools and services to help you share documents, send files, chat and whiteboard without installing any software. Here below my selected online collaboration tools for this week: Orgoo: All-in-one communication ... read more