Learning - Educational Technologies - Articles Archive
from February 3, 2008 to December 22, 2007

Instant message with your team, share audio, video and photos, create a chatroom with no computer programming knowledge or to turn your PC into a file sharing service, are a few of the interesting online collaboration tools and web services I have selected this week for ... read more

Helping others see what you are talking about can be a powerful communication advantage, and understanding how visuals and images work can make all of the difference in the world in achieving it. This and many others interesting insights, at the convergence point of media, technology, ... read more

Need to collaborate online more and better? In this weekly selection of online collaboration tools there are some great (free) tools you really can't miss: whether you want to create a free video conferencing room, instant message your working team using a dedicated IM, share huge ... read more

How do great ideas spread and become "influencers" for those who are exposed to them? How can you involve yourself in deciding how to get our children educated? Are online learning tutorials a trend that is going to grow? How are future classrooms going to look ... read more

Design scientifically or design for yourself? Design for a specified and scientifically identified marketing target or design for your own pleasure and usefulness? Two really great questions. But to evaluate what may be the very best possible answer to both, I think you need to see ... read more

Video conferencing, instant messaging and real-time file-sharing and collaboration. These the three online collaboration areas for which I have some new tools to have you test out. You can have video conferences with up to ten people, instant message your team members right from within Firefox ... read more

Do you really know how Google performs its search "magic" and how it weighs your site inside search results? Are video tutorials the next wave? Is social networking going to be as relevant and impactful also inside the education universe? On these, and other more interesting technology-related ... read more

When communicating inside a virtual distributed team, things are not as clear and evident as when you operate in traditional physical environments. Virtual teams are somewhat more sensitive to bad or improper use of communication tools and methods as such teams pivot their key abilities specifically ... read more

In this new selection of online collaboration tools I have selected for you a set of cool tools. If you need to share your screen with a remote colleague with max ease and at zero cost, if you want to call via the Internet using VoIP ... read more

In the near future, are you going to interact with computers without using a keyboard and mouse? Do you know you can get into the video publishing frenzy with just a cool $120 camcorder? How about mobile phone projectors, have you yet seen one of these? ... read more

Find out in less than 3 minutes what online photo sharing is all about. Lee and Sachi Lefever have done it again as they have just published a new short and cool video clip explaining to the non-tech crowd what online photo sharing is, why you'd ... read more

What makes great teams be such? Is it a matter of coincidental matters that some teams perform systematically above average or being a high performance team is due to specific traits of those that make the team up? Ken Thompson, with whom I have co-authored the Bioteaming ... read more

Collaboration tools is going to soon become a misnomer. The more mainstream, standard office applications and productivity tools start adding collaboration facilities to their apps the more collaboration will become part of what is expected by any digital work tool. This Sharewood Picnic contains a new collection ... read more

As 2008 will bring greater focus on professional online publishing for Master New Media, here is the second part of my anticipations and predictions for this new year that has just started. In this second part: Online Collaboration Tools Mobile Mobile Live Video Online Marketing P2P Conversational Tools - Microblogging Widgets OpenID Off-line Web-based Applications X-Events ... read more

Online professional independent publishers rejoyce! 2008 promises to be a year of great innovation for everyone publishing online as opportunities to expand or start your own micro publishing company will only increase. New powerful publishing and content distribution tools will make their debut in 2008 while ... read more

If you are on the lookout for some new useful tools that can help you better manage your distributed virtual room or your vacationing class of students, here is Master New Media new weekly set of cool online collaboration tools that you may have recently missed ... read more

What to expect from the world of new media technology for 2008? Health, economy and alternative energy blogger Sepp Hasslberger, contributes his personal view on some of the major trends he sees coming down the line when it comes to new media, search engines, and tacit ... read more

Online collaboration tools are sprouting like mushrooms and it has become difficult for even the most tech savvy bloggers to keep up with all the new tools and new releases. If you don't already know it, one site where I and my team keep you posted ... read more

Facebook and the use of social media in the enterprise, user-generated content, newly reported UGC production trends, mobile learning platforms and the evolution of personal publishing are among some of the insightful selections that George Siemens has picked for you this week. In this weekly digest, George ... read more

A lot has been written and speculated about Google Knol during this past week, but besides the big hoopla and excitement for the new Google announcement, few have stopped to reflect upon the consequences, opportunities and issues that may arise from the introduction of this new ... read more