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5 technologies to promote creative learning

Learning with e's

Technology can provide some of those creative solutions. 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. 5) Video Mashups: Ask students to find 3 unrelated YouTube videos. I bet you can come up with some more!

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Understanding Web 2.0

Integrated Learnings

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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Aha Moments in 2007

Tony Karrer

I had a real "aha experience" after using add-ins to provide features inside my blog. I had a very interesting disagreement with a client about the technical direction for their solution - they wanted local editing via a Word add-in locally installed - I advocated providing a pure web delivered solution. I started using del.icio.us

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Ward Cunningham: Ten Years (and more)

Jay Cross

Wikipedia took off when they got rid of that one.&# ). Mundane – A small number of (irregular) text conventions will provide access to the most useful page markup. Let’s take a paragraph from Wikipedia, this one about the Louisiana Gulf oil spill. Video mash-ups. Co-creation is coming.

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Activity Streams

Jay Cross

An activity stream is a mash-up of an individual’s or organization’s feeds. Wikipedia: nothing up yet For example, my FriendFeed pages show activity from this blog, the Internet Time Blog, my Flickr account, bookmarks I put on Delicious, and my entries from Twitter. Chris Messina: activitystrea.ms.

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Social Media…outside, inside, upside down

Janet Clarey

I am seeing a lot of mashups. to provide structure, support, feedback, and guidance that is part of a formal education. my apologies for all the links to Wikipedia…just wanted to provide a definition terms). Many LMS vendors are there or heading there. Was his post not the stimulus to the responses(s)?

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

Tony Karrer

I had a real "aha experience" after using add-ins to provide features inside my blog. I had a very interesting disagreement with a client about the technical direction for their solution - they wanted local editing via a Word add-in locally installed - I advocated providing a pure web delivered solution. I started using del.icio.us