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Massive Catch-Up Issue #1413 (Games, Virtual Worlds, banking concepts and more)

Mark Oehlert

Scientists to Build Concept Bank : "Information scientists announced an agreement last month on a “concept bank” programmers could use to build thinking machines that reason about complex problems at the frontiers of knowledge—from advanced manufacturing to biomedicine. Custom Laser-engraved Moleskines : me want. news coverage ).not

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Massive Catch-Up Issue #1413 (Games, Virtual Worlds, banking concepts and more)

Mark Oehlert

Virtual Worlds Management Industry Forecast 2008 MPEG Issues Call for Requirements for "Information exchange with Virtual Worlds" Interoperability Project Mark Kingdon: For Second Life "Inworld collaboration is going to be a killer application." releases BrowserPlus : Extend the browser.( news coverage ).not

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Method Count Percent Alongside Formal Learning 26 63% Process Information / Training 22 54% Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) / Support Information 18 44% Commonly used resources, URL's to applications, documentation, Contact Information, etc. Orientations, classes, and meetings are often held in Second Life.

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LCB Question for December - Past Year, Present Challenges, Predictions

Tony Karrer

and Yahoo MyWeb to save bookmarks - locally saved favorites seem rather limited now. We had discussed Wikis, Blogs and were embarking on Second Life. What is the form of informal learning? would grow to dominate in what was then a desktop/CD-ROM world. The revolution in 2006 is possibly even more profound.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Profiles of a Twentysomething and a Fiftysomething Learner

Learning Visions

She uses the web every day and uses Yahoo for searching, sometimes Google. I try to do an informal survey of students when I go to campuses to deliver orientations to our online courses. I guess your informal survey results are no surprise. I take continuing ed all the time for all of my license. Thats a great post.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Universal Widgets

Mark Oehlert

According to Webware , UWA-developed widgets will now run on iGoogle, Apple Dashboard, Opera, Vista and Windows Live and support for Yahoo!s typekey e-Clippings (a division of blogoehlert) Me in Second Life Blog powered by TypePad Member since 08/2003 s widget engine is on the way. From the land of Huh?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

I would like to ask: Why should an e-learning system have chat, groups, calendars and forums when there are Yahoo meesengers, eGroups, etc. My team is in charge of the communication and collaboration aspect of the system. We could not find a suitable problem to address. found in the net? Lots of thanks! United States License.

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