Category Archives: Web 2.0
The Best of Both Worlds– Web Apps with Desktop Clients
The recent explosion of great tools that simply run in a web browser has been amazing. From tools like Google Docs, Evernote, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Prezi, and Rememberthemilk and the venerable Gmail– you can access powerful tools for free wherever … Continue reading
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Tagged Apps, Evernote, facebook, Flickr, gmail, google, Google Docs, Linux, mac, Remember the Milk, twitter, Web browser, windows
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"Free" Points for Free Work? Incentivizing Students Giving and Receiving Help in an Online FAQ
Image via Wikipedia Did you know you can save time and effort by starting a Frequently Asked Questions Discussion Board in your course? Do you get tired of answering the same student questions over and over? Save time and effort … Continue reading
Posted in EdTech, Featured, TeacherHax, Web 2.0
Tagged Ask an Expert, blackboard, cms, Crowd surfing, discussion, edtech, elearning, faq, Google Groups, high school, higher ed, Incentive, instructional design, Internet forum, Learning, lms, moodle, Question Answering, Student, teaching, web 2.0, website
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Reflecting on Reflection in Ed.
Image by lrargerich via Flickr In Jez’ e-Rambler blog, he meditates on the importance of reflection in education. Researchers have long known that reflection is an excellent way to stimulate critical thinking. By comparing new learnings with what you already … Continue reading
GRUML: Google Reader on your Desktop
Image by Sue Waters via Flickr As you may have gathered from my defense of desktop email clients, I prefer desktop apps to webapps any day of the week. Even if the app is powered by a web data service … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggregator, Application software, Clients, Feed Readers, gmail, google, GoogleReader, rss, Web feed, WWW
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Finding copyright-friendly Images: A blogger's guide
Image via Wikipedia Flickr.com, Yahoo.com, and Google (and now Bing.com) can be great places to find images of just about anything under the sun. Unfortunately, many of the images you find are the intellectual property of someone else– so you … Continue reading
Smart Dumb Phones: Cool Uses for Low Tech Cell Phones (NO iPhone REQUIRED!)
There’s no denying that the iPhone has become an amazing tool for taking your internet connected life mobile. However, many of its functions are available to even the lowest tech "dumb phones" on the market. This post will show you … Continue reading
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Tagged Business and Economy, dumb phone, facebook, Flickr, google, iphone, mms, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Posterous, rss, SMS, Telecommunications, Text messaging, twitter
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Broke free of my iPhone/AT&T Bondage!: Road Test for the Palm Pre on Sprint
Image by zoovroo via Flickr Since its debut in 2007, I’ve been a fanatical iPhone jailbreaker and general enthusiast of the device. As more and more iPhones have begun bogging down the 3G network in the Bay Area, Apple/AT&T seem … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, free, free apps, Handhelds, iphone, ITunes, Macintosh, open source, Palm, PalmPre, Smartphone
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Opera Unite: A Web/Chat/FileSharing/etc. server IN YOUR BROWSER!
Image by Glztt via Flickr Opera Unite is an amazing service that allows you to run a web server right out of your own browser! What does that mean? It means that you can share photos, music, and files without … Continue reading
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Tagged Clients, Opera, OperaUnite, Server, Uniform Resource Locator, Uploading and downloading, Web browser, Web server
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GrooveShark– The BEST of the streaming online music players!
Grooveshark is the holy grail of online music players— it has every song you want to hear, it lets you listen to what you want (not what THEY want you to hear) and you can make and save your own … Continue reading
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