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Thursday, September 2, 2010
In the Big Question launched by Tony Karrer this month , he wonders how we use Text-to-Speech (TTS) in our courses? He also reflects on budget and the combination of TTS and the text that can be shown, but I will only look at when and how I have been using TTS. If you have not used TTS in your courses yet, have a look.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Every year (since 2007), Jane Hart from the Center for Learning & Performance Technologies (or C4LPT ) is getting all of us on board to get our top 10 learning list together. It is a wonderful list created by inputs from all of us, so add your tools to it. Here is my daily newspaper: Ignatia Webs Daily. flickr) depending on the file type.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
While traveling, many of us don't know where to find the nearest wifi spot, hence paying through the nose to get on the internet with our mobile devices (well, some of us, like me). For all of us wanting to get to the nearest WiFi hotspot, there is a really nifty mobile software: WeF i. How to install it on your wifi-enabled phone and start?
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Jane Hart from the Center for Learning & Performance Technologies is still looking for Top 10 Tools for Learning. Anyone who wants to add their knowledge feel free to go to [link] and add your own list. Find.mobi [link] mobile search engine delight, but unfortunately only in English for the moment.
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Thanks to the great College20 community started by Eduardo Peirano, I could read a post by Alejandra Pickett that really blew my mind. The way she build her course is a great example of combining several relevant Social media to enhance a course. If you are a member of the College20 community, feel free to immediately surf to her post. Impressive
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Connecting to others, is enabled by open source software. So this is not a blogpost on theory, but on practicalities of connectivism reality. The open source community celebrated Software Freedom Day on 20 September. Transparency is key in enabling people to participate in the creation of wealth and well-being in society. Learn more about Audacity.
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Friday, June 12, 2009
New online book on mobile learning -available for free download by Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (editors), New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, 2009, 138p. Thanks to IAmLearn to send this new information around.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
For those who have been following my mobile blogs, you knew our great Peru/Belgian team (i.e. the Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt (IMTAvH) in Lima and the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp) was working on something special: a mobile moodle for iPhone. And now we are at the brink of releasing the code.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Tween's playing a video game. Most of them do on a regular basis. In 2007, when children's marketing research firm KidSay asked boys what virtual worlds or online games they had visited in the past two weeks, 35 percent of boys aged 8 to 11 replied "none." That's a big increase. Here are some other statistics from the M2 Research Report.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Tweet Here are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. QUOTES: @EskoKilpi “Control means being able to predict (if A then B); if we can’t predict, we can’t control.&#. via @4KM Complexity is necessary … confusion & unnecessary complication should be eliminated. Don Norman ). **. And the debate goes on.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
David Grady’s highly amusing observations on the problems inherent in conference calls definitely grabbed my attention, not only because I can relate them to my experiences of running regular meetings on the phone, but also because of the similar issues that can be faced in online meetings. Ideas?
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Most would agree that Twitter was one of the social networking phenomena of 2008, and has enjoyed exponential growth in popularity. The microblogging tool has obvious potential to be used in formal learning, both in traditional online classroom settings and - through mobile technologies - for mobile learners. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar).
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. But I also think that there’s a lot more help now around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. just reached 100. Thought I'd share. No particular order to these. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace 3. Understanding E-Learning 2.0 Web 2.0: Web 2.0
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning Posts It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The author(s) have been writing individual articles for months or years. This is my attempt to help you get a sense of topics of my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles. Comments are very much welcome. Topics eLearning 2.0
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Monday, May 14, 2007
Second Life truly is a phenomenon. It is exactly what the name and vision imply: an example of a parallel "multiverse". People will learn much in it, as they might alternatively learn via participating on a real -world sports team, running a real-world lemonade stand, or walking around a great real-world city. Supporting mentor/supervisor/guides.
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