Learning - Educational Technologies - Articles Archive
from April 25, 2006 to January 17, 2006

Remote access to your PC from anywhere via mobile phone Podcast search engine allows creation and sharing of channels Server monitoring service makes it easy and free to track server status Desktop music player tracks and reports your music preferences Map creation service allows personal life events documentation Spreadsheet hosting editing ... read more

The time has finally arrived to let everyone join in to the next phase of TheWeblogProject: grassroots online video editing and remixing. If you have yet not heard about it, TheWeblogProject is my own independent, open-source online movie dedicated to evangelize and explain what blogs ... read more

While the Wall Street Journal ponders whether bloggers can really make money or not (just like asking in the '70s whether a DJ could make money), those truly interested in developing a more comprehensive picture of the effective opportunity available to them, should look a bit ... read more

A new, Microsoft-based, online search engine focused on academic subjects is now live. Called Windows Live Academic, it currently indexes content related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related topics (with more than 6 million records from approximately 4300 journals and 2000 conferences) providing direct ... read more

Where online collaboration starts and where individual isolated applications end is going to become a next to invisible borderline, as most applications are gradually drifting toward the integration of some form of collaborative features. Sharing, is becoming an essential asset for those who need to communicate, ... read more

New media, Web 2.0, online applications, web-based services, mobile applications and online collaboration tools are all part of this new basket full of gems I have prepared for you for another great technology-rich Sharewood Picnic. The Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of the best, most ... read more

Custom book publishing is already a reality. The new revamped offering from O'Reilly Media shows that the educational market too is ready for disintermediating large publisher while giving in to deep customization and teacher-driven content selection. Custom textbook publishing is next. In this new paradigm everyone ... read more

We live in a time of great school crisis. Our children rank at the bottom of nineteen industrial nations in reading, writing and arithmetic. At the very bottom. The world's narcotic economy is based upon our own consumption of the commodity, if we didn't buy so ... read more

New media tools and services are blooming like never before. Here is a new basket full of new media gems for another great technology-rich Sharewood Picnic. The Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of the best, most interesting new media tools, resources and pointers I have ... read more

Digital content is not only the latest hip song or your newly released blockbuster movie in digital format. Digital content, whether your government has helped you realize this or not, is also the vast, immense amount of historical, artistic and cultural works that is gradually findings ... read more

Here is a new basket full of new media delicacies for your Sharewood Picnic. Once again I have gotten a great bunch of interesting new media tools, resources and pointers I have run into during my daily research and online explorations. Some of these new media ... read more

Here is a mental exercise in reading, and in maintaining a flexible viewpoint about reality and your future. If you are happy with business in general, with your work and salary and with the way we should conduct our lives is portrayed by most media, independent ... read more

Electronic portfolios or e-portfolios are gaining increasing media attention as potentially highly valuable learning, evaluation and assessment tools for educators, learners and academic organizations. An e-portfolio is a web-published collection of documents, information, link resources, audio and video clips that showcases the demonstrated abilities, know-how and ... read more

Here is a new basket full of delicacies for our weekend Sharewood Picnic. New media resources and tools gathered during the past 10-15 days await your testing and validation before everyone else hears about them. Here are in fact what I consider the most interesting new ... read more

Here is a new basket full of delicacies for our weekend Sharewood Picnic. New media resources and tools gathered during the past 10-15 days await your testing and validation before everyone else hears about them. Here are in fact what I consider the most interesting new ... read more

Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of new media resources and tools. In it you find the best new media tools and picks I discover weekly during my daily research and explorations. The picnic gems I select are all tools and services that while small or ... read more

Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of new media resources and tools. In it you find the best new media tools and picks I run into every week during my daily research and explorations into the future of independent media publishing. This week as before I ... read more

After having reviewed and introduced to you the new and much improved VSee, high-quality videoconferencing web-based solution (Win only), I am publishing today the full text transcript and the streaming audio recording of this very interview conversation with Milton Chen of VSee. In this online interview Milton ... read more

Times are changing. Education as we know it, is increasingly becoming a resisting and numbing force to liberating the collective intelligence potential and the disruptive capabilities that new media technologies have made recently available to us. Education, intended only as top-down, lecturing-based approach to allow others ... read more