Monthly Archives: October 2007
TED: Virtual Earth by Stephen Lawler
Microsoft’s Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down and through its hyperreal cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a remarkable feat that requires staggering amounts of data to bring into focus. Google might still be ahead of … Continue reading
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Second Life: Introduction
What exactly is Second Life? Second Life is an Internet based virtual reality world. It made its debut on the World Wide Web in 2003, and was created by Linden Research of San Francisco. Second Life is accessible by anyone … Continue reading
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Second Life: Academic Institutions
Are you a teacher looking to try and understand the potential of Second Life for your own teaching environment?There is atremendous amount of innovation is already underway within the Second Life virtual world. I have found by researching what other … Continue reading
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TED: Google Grants & Google Foundation
Ever wondered what real time search volume looks like across the globe on Google? Now’s your chance to see it. >> Google presentation at TED Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offer a peek inside the Google machine, sharing tidbits … Continue reading
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TED: Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers.
TED. Perhaps the greatest ideas you’ll ever hear in this lifetime. True visionaries. Be inspired by these tremendous life-changingpioneers.Please visit and share the knowledge. TED: (Technology, Entertainment & Design) Enjoy video talks and presentations from some of the brightest minds … Continue reading
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Moodle
Going to try and create your own LMS, or sort through commercial expensive learning management systems? Suffer no longer. A viable, free open-source platform is available. Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites. It’s an … Continue reading
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TED: Sir Ken Robinson on creativity and education
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize — … Continue reading
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Visually representing complex information.
Visualcomplexity.com One of the most visually stunning sitesone shall hope to see. The site is produced and maintainedby Manuel Lima who is an interaction designer, information architect and design researcher.Words cannot express the beauty contained within this work. Complex Networks … Continue reading
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Online Learning – Organizations
Organizations of Interest for Online Learning The Sloan Consortium: A Consortium of institutions and organizations committed to quality online education. For some of the highest quality research available within online learning, I highly recommend that you join or stay in … Continue reading
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E-Learning Reference
You are welcometo thefollowing freereference materialscourtesy of the E-Learning guild. (Thedocuments do have a couple Webex ads within thepdf. However the Guildwas kind enough to share with us these materialsat no cost, so please do take a look.There is useful … Continue reading
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