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5 technologies to promote creative learning

Learning with e's

4) Making Twistory: Get students to follow, and interact with, historical figures on Twitter. If you would like to have a go tweeting as a historical character yourself, here''s a link showing you how to be a historical figure on Twitter. [NB: 5) Video Mashups: Ask students to find 3 unrelated YouTube videos.

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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

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). Twitter has APIs, so does Facebook, even Linkedin. Include: Twitter. Twitter is an example of a micro-blogger, btw.

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Understanding Web 2.0

Integrated Learnings

Wikipedia has a write up on Web 2.0 The ideas that make up Web 2.0 are social networking, web mashups, and using the web to store and create content. Follow me on Twitter" has become a popular fad for people to market themselves. A web mashup is the second concept in what makes up Web 2.0.

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How Many Videos Do You Need To Effectively Flip Your Class? An Interview with Ashlie Smith

TechSmith Camtasia

I took their little five-second videos, cut them all up, mashed them all together and made a mix of all the machines. Using somebody else’s videos on YouTube is okay.” Watch it YouTube. Contact Ashlie Smith on Twitter @smithsciencegms and check out her blog. So that was a video.”

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10 Ways To Learn In 2010

The eLearning Coach

Your collage might show a book from Amazon, a YouTube video and a page from a blog or web site. Learn through Twitter. You can search directly on Twitter, but they say the results are less than stellar. Create a Mashup. Making a mashup promotes perceiving information in new ways and is a learning experience in itself.

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Buzzword: Micro-learning

Xyleme

Catching up on what my Twitter network are sharing, whilst waiting for a train. Picking up a couple of recent blog posts or videos from my RSS reader whilst eating lunch. Looking up the best way to buy a rail ticket from the UK to Germany. Finding a quick video about how to replace a light bulb in my car.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. Yesterday's post can be found at this link. The web is constantly changing.