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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | LEARNING JOURNEYS OCTOBER 15, 2008 Learning Journeys » Learning Journeys i've been discovering my way through the work literacy web 2.0 for learning professionals workshop, which is a six-week collaboration to experience new tools and their impact on personal and professional development | LEARNING JOURNEYS DECEMBER 8, 2008 SimplyBox SimplyBox is a free browser plugin that is part: screen capture tool. screen touring application. organizer. collaboration tool. According to the website: “SimplyBox is a free service to Capture, Share, and Organize ANYTHING you find on the web. Using SimplyBox, you capture images, videos, or text from web pages and organize these screen captures into boxes (thus the name SimplyBox). You can then organize boxes into containers. Add comments to your screen captures, and even return to the original web page(s) to see your clippings in context with the click of a button. Browser. | | | | | | | LEARNING JOURNEYS DECEMBER 1, 2008 Free Education? Courtesy of lisa_funtime. Free education? I’m not referring to grants or scholarships. I’m talking about a change in the way we acquire marketable knowledge and skills. Could there really be such a thing as free education? MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has made essentially all its course content available in a free, web-based format. Tag line: “Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required. Other institutions are offering similar content and services. Are there any drawbacks? In the current environment, yes. tools. Check. | LEARNING JOURNEYS NOVEMBER 27, 2008 Twitter for Learning I am a Johnny-come-lately to the Twitter scene (Twittersphere). I thought Twitter was nothing more than instant messaging on steroids. Forget information overload. I saw it as information suicide. Experience has changed my mind. It’s Thursday evening, Thanksgiving Day in the United States. I’ve been following the #Mumbai hash tag on Twitter, and it has been a learning journey in more ways than one. I’ve learned that Twitter can be a source of up-to-the-second information from around the world. No filters. No holds barred. It’s mind-blowing. | LEARNING JOURNEYS NOVEMBER 24, 2008 Building Communities with Ning Use Ning to build online communities and memorable learning experiences. Ning is a free social networking platform that offers a wide array of features and capabilities. Networks can be public or private, which gives facilitators greater control over the direction of their communities. My recent experiences with Ning (as a learner) have been excellent! ( Work Literacy Web 2.0 | LEARNING JOURNEYS NOVEMBER 21, 2008 Freepath I have two objectives for this post. First, I will review Freepath 2.0 Beta , a free presentation tool. Second, I will use Freepath to present 25 Free Tools for Learning Professionals as researched and compiled by Jane Hart. You then call up the content for a presentation when you want it, presenting it in a non-linear flexible way. Watch a brief tour of Freepath. Freepath. Freepath FAQs. Enjoy! | | | | | | | | | -
LEARNING JOURNEYS | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2008 Flowgram Literally create learning journeys with Flowgram. It is like a guided tour of the World Wide Web, … and you get to be the tour guide! Flowgram is a free, online service that you can use to create slide shows, scavenger hunts, or student assignments. I created a sample Flowgram below. Use Flowgram to visualize your favorite sites on a particular topic. Rather than providing your students with a link to your Delicious or Diigo account, give them a link to a Flowgram that incorporates those bookmarks. Students can then interact with the content directly in ways that you specify. MORE >> -
LEARNING JOURNEYS | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2008 Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 I will be attending the free, online conference, Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 , at Ning.com next week, November 17-21, 2008. The event is moderated by Jay Cross , George Siemens , and Tony Karrer. “Join us to explore new developments, track emerging opportunities, and network with learning pioneers.. There are already 275 members, and you could be next. Look at this list of events! If you are at all intrigued by the future of the learning industry, you should join the conversation. November 17 Monday. Best Online Collaboration Tools for Learning. Working Smarter. MORE >> -
LEARNING JOURNEYS | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008 Live Blogging with Cover It Live Interested in live blogging an event? Want your microblogging updates to be posted in real-time to a single blog post? Try Cover It Live. ran across this fantastic service being used at Mark Oehlert’s e-Clippings blog. He is live blogging DevLearn 2008 in San Jose, California. Cover It Live answers the question, “What will my readers see? , with this explanatory video. However, if you want to see it in action, visit e-Clippings today. From www.CoverItLive.com : CoveritLive’s web based software takes your next live blog to a new level. Your readers will love it. MORE >> -
LEARNING JOURNEYS | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2008 Adobe Captivate 4 Sneak Peek I didn’t get to attend the Adobe Summit or DevLearn 2008 this week in San Jose, CA, and I’m totally jealous of everyone who got a sneak peek of Adobe Captivate 4. . Thankfully, Philip Hutchison posted an excellent overview of all the new features on his pipwerks blog. Captivate 4 will be part of the new Adobe eLearning Suite. You must check out Philip’s review. Thank you, Philip! Tagged: adobe, captivate MORE >> -
LEARNING JOURNEYS | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2008 SlideRocket Today, I’m reviewing SlideRocket , an online presentation tool. My review is mixed. Let’s start with the good points. It’s free. You can purchase individual or business accounts with more functionality, but the free account is fine for most uses. The image quality is superb. The user interface is fairly self-explanatory. PowerPoint users beware. It is nothing like PowerPoint. You can add text, images, flash, video, audio, charts, shapes, and tables. You can even add some plugins. You can animate objects and add effects (shadow, bevel, glow, reflection, etc). MORE >>
- Which Internet browser is best for learning professionals? LEARNING JOURNEYS | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2008
- EclipseCrossword.com and Articulate Presenter ‘09 LEARNING JOURNEYS | MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2008
- Update: Internet browsers … LEARNING JOURNEYS | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2008
- Lynda.com | Learning @ Your Own Pace LEARNING JOURNEYS | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2008
- Adobe ConnectNow LEARNING JOURNEYS | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2008
- Xerte - Free eLearning Development Tool LEARNING JOURNEYS | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2008
- New LinkedIn Applications LEARNING JOURNEYS | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008
- Online Events vs. Face-to-Face Events LEARNING JOURNEYS | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2008
- TCExam - Open Source CBA/CBT LEARNING JOURNEYS | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2008
- Information overload … not so bad? LEARNING JOURNEYS | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008
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