Tips for setting up a Pageflakes portal for educational use.
Tips for setting up a Pageflakes portal for educational use.
Discusses a study by the US National School Boards Association and Grunwald Associates LLC on social and education related activity patterns in American students.
K12-specific. Includes a breakdown of the kinds of activities young people are doing online.
Notes the difference is between start pages (personal) and social networking and widgets (and public broadcast ability).
July 22 2007
Describes what pagecasts are and lists links to public pagecasts. Check for educational examples.
May 25, 2007
Definition of Pagecasts
May 22. 2007
Tools at the Michgan State University allow faculty to create interactive language learning resources on the fly.
Describes a RIA developed at Wharton College for students to select their course schedules (Wharton uses an auction system).
Includes a link to the demo.
Examples of RIAs (webapps) in education. Also online collaboration tools... maybe some overlap here.
Rich Internet Applications
Ryan Stewart, The Universal Desktop, Nov 19, 2007
This blog post examines why rich Internet applications (the next generation of webapps?) is popular.
LiveDocuments - new collaborative office suite.
Live Documents enters the Office suite ring
(Dan Farber, Larry Dignan, and David Berlind, Between the Lines, Nov. 23, 2007)
This blog post describes a set of Flash-based productivity applications that include collaborative features.
one interface that publishes your video to a dozen video networks at once.
desktop/webapp integration - application with an embedded browser that works exclusively with a single web application.
stability - doesn't crash the whole browser if the webapp hangs
integrates with the desktop like a regular software app - shortcuts, etc.
publish yourself online - upload & store, share documents.
enumerates advantages of google docs for education.
FridayLive! Google Docs & Spreadsheets
Steve Gilbert, TLT-SWG, March 8, 2007
Second Life comes full circle and becomes a MOO.
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Resources used in developing the 2008 Horizon Report (see horizon.nmc.org)
Updated on Nov 12, 08
Created on Nov 27, 07
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- ninmah on 2007-11-27