Learning - Educational Technologies - Articles Archive
from November 23, 2006 to September 11, 2006

Wikipedia and WikiNews are two of the most prominent examples of successful and widely used collaborative web editing tools. Both, among others, highlight some of the key transformation elements of the new emerging web. With the development and advance of recent technologies such as wikis, blogs, podcasting ... read more

Learning is ...acquiring knowledge or skill through study, experience or teaching... but also ...an increase in the capability for effective action...This definition emphasizes the importance of taking actions and achieving results vs. intellectual knowledge without application. Are my kids going to go to college? My answer is ... read more

Participatory Media And The Pedagogy Of Civic Participation - The Transformation Of Education And Democracy: A Presentation by Howard Rheingold ''Education – the means by which young people learn the skills necessary to succeed in their place and time – is diverging from schooling. Media-literacy-wise, education is ... read more

Wikis, and similar collaborative web editing tools mark a major element of transformation of the new Web emerging today. To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, ... read more

To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, including news services, companies, and other organisations have set up web-sites. With the development and advance of ... read more

The future of art and the entire artists' universe is likely to be reshaped by the internet and the new media. Whenever a commentator makes grandiose statements about history, the reader can legitimately anticipate that they will lead in to some audacious announcement about the future, couched ... read more

A few days ago I had the honour of hosting in my Rome apartment, freedom activist and hacker Richard Stallman, a near-like mythological figure in the world of computing, hacking and a pioneer figure in supporting free software as a political weapon. Wikipedia, which devotes ten pages ... read more

To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, including news services, companies, and other organisations have set up web-sites. With the development and advance of recent ... read more

Social bookmarking meets social networking: Blue Dot pushes an evolutionary step forward the basecamp from where future online communities will start forming – Video Intro Blue Dot is a free service that combines the social bookmarking abilities popularized by del.icio.us with the social networking features of MySpace ... read more

"Screen sharing is generally understood as the technologically-empowered ability to transmit the contents of your computer screen to one or more remotely connected Internet users. In other words screen-sharing allows you to show PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, images and any other software running on your computer ... read more

Participatory media has exploded in recent times, and moves from strength to strength almost daily, with new services arriving and evolving that make communicating easier than ever. But who owns the work you share? We are living through a huge shift away from top-down, one-way mass ... read more

Web 2.0 Meets Smartmobs: Howard Rheingold Views On Web 2.0 and How Traditional Mass Media Can Adapt To The Sweeping Changes Generated by New Social Media - Exclusive Interview Howard Rheingold has been very kind in sparing some little time to share his personal views on the ... read more

Online Video Advertising And Promotion: Share Your Video Online Is The Only Way To Go Online video publishing has indeed taken the Internet by storm this year, making the use of video for marketing, promotion, news and PR online a true key strategic component of any new ... read more

Want to share only a specific section of a video clip? Now you can. Thanks to the latest feature release from online video editing and publishing service Motionbox (being released today), the syndicating, mashing-up and repurposing of online video content may gain some of the ... read more

by Stephen Downes Guy Kawasaki last week wrote an item describing "ten things you should learn this school year" in which readers were advised to learn how to write five sentence emails, create PowerPoint slides, and survive boring meetings. It was, to my view, advice on how ... read more