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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

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An API (Application Program Interface) enables an interface from a piece of software to communicate with another piece of software (in its simplest form) or multiple pieces of software (called a mashup). Search for restaurants in Google and Google Maps shows up with the various restaurants on the map. Wikipedia capabilities?

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Top 60 eLearning Posts for October 2010

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4 Free Tools to Help Get Your PowerPoint from Good to Great , October 21, 2010 Continuing the recent trend of PowerPoint in the news , I stumbled upon an article in USA Today that provided some tips and advice for designing more engaging presentations. Open up the Navigation. Please if you can, look this research up!

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

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Time for these vendors to wake up, or see your audience share disappear. Wiki- looks nothing like Wikipedia. mp3,mpeg),pdf, documents including PowerPoint and Excel; learners can then view/preview and can download them; again the items are uploaded into the system. The days are gone, when everyone is going to use a LMS.

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Google-Assisted “Search� Learning…but pls don’t say “according to Google�

Janet Clarey

You probably just “google it” and then click the Wikipedia entry for whatever you’re “googling.&# Many did not grow up using print encyclopedias and dictionaries like many older (some Gen X, boomer, mature) workers. YouTube Remixer allows learners to make video mashups. Splitting hairs. How Googlized are you?

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