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5 technologies to promote creative learning

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2) Wiki''d Writing: Ask your students (in small groups or on their own) to either edit an existing Wikipedia page, or create a new one on a topic not yet covered. The latter option is more advanced and problematic, because many of the commonly known topics are already well covered on Wikipedia. I bet you can come up with some more!

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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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Understanding Web 2.0

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Wikipedia has a write up on Web 2.0 wikipedia entry first written in February of 2005 to get a better appreciation of how this terminology has morphed (somewhat) over time. The ideas that make up Web 2.0 are social networking, web mashups, and using the web to store and create content.

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Social Media Offerings which can b used in Social Learning

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Social Discovery – Stumble Upon (Wikipedia likes to stick this into social bookmarking, however IMO it does more than that). Wikis - Wikipedia. Media Sharing (Video, Audio, Application) - ( Video – YouTube, Audio- Last.fm , Application – P2P). Blogs - WordPress , Blogger. Events – Meetup.

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Good morning Barcelona!! Jim Groom at #EDEN15

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Groom's popular and anarchic blog Bavatuesdays is a regular port of call for all those seeking this kind of eclectic and irreverent mashup of concepts, thoughts and opinions. He featured a bizzare YouTube video of 'Dr Oblivion' introducing ds106. Dave Kernohan). Not a good start. Cue applause. Unported License.

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Noughties. but nice

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iPods and Podcasts: The Touch, the Nano, the Shuffle, the Classic, you name it, versions of the iPod popped up and grabbed our attention in the noughties. YouTube: Freaking out, spoofing, parodies, pirated music videos and plenty of dross - that's YouTube for you. Youtube made it easy for millions.

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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. Some offer a “YouTube&# like feature, where people can upload videos and others can comment on it. Wikipedia that actually looks like Wikipedia – 100%, they use mediawiki kit – available for free.