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Five tools for global educators

Learning with e's

In effect, through the use of social media and telecommunication technologies, these teachers are becoming global educators. Webinar tools include Elluminate (now known as Blackboard Collaborate), WebEx and Adobe Connect all of which have similar screen topographies and perform similar functions, but all have an associated cost.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

I also like to make occasional visits to Google Labs and Adobe Labs to "keep up" with the tech tools they are working on and to test drive any beta versions available. It is tough to stay on top of all the great stuff being offered out there, but the blogs and social media certainly help.

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Crossing the divide

Learning with e's

In essence, it is the ability to be able to create content, organise, share and communicate across, and through, a variety of social media, discussion groups, mobile tools and other services that are commonly available. In LinkedIn, I manage a professional version of my persona, which evaporates when I'm on Facebook.

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Free and Open Source Web Conferencing (Online Meetings, Webinars.

eFront

It makes it very simple to distribute your content to lots of social media and draw people from various audiences into one place to have conversation. I have used www.dimdim.com before and Elluminate (but this is not open source.) Elluminate is a really nice tool but not open source. to version 3.6.6

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Top 70 eLearning Posts for June and Hot Topics including iPad and Mobile Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Social Media and Social Network Educational Infographics - Dont Waste Your Time , June 15, 2010 I am seeing and reading so many blog posts and tweets with someone trying to explain what is a Social Network, or what is a PLN/PLE. However, in this case the majority wasn’t actively using social media.

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