Tag: collaboration

Cast Your Vote in the Top 100 Tools for Learning (2010 Edition)

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August 23, 2010
by Mark

Each year Jane Hart over at the Centre for Learning and Performance Activities (C4LPA) is once again putting the call out for help in compiling the Top 100 Tools for Learning. Simply head to her site and follow the links, then add ten tools that have been invaluable to your service as an educator. So far over 380 learning professionals have contributed their opinions on the most valuable tools that they have when considering e-Learning. You can also access the results back to 2007 when this annual compilation started, when the top ten tools for e-learning were;

  1. Firefox
  2. Delicious
  3. Google Search
  4. Skype
  5. PowerPoint
  6. WordPress
  7. Gmail
  8. Google Reader
  9. Blogger
  10. Word

Polling closes this year on the 17th of October, 2010.
Post your contributions here.
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Prezi – You’re So Cool

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August 23, 2010
by Mark

This Prezi wasn’t designed by me, but I thought it was a fantastic way to showcase the type of presentation capabilities that Prezi is capable of. Beth Arledge is the original author and has done a fantastic job of showing some of the functionality of this new and exciting presentation tool. Prezi offers free and paid accounts as well as educator accounts. Get one and move away from the Powerpoint.

Yeah Prezi, You’re So Cool on Prezi

Popularity: 6% [?]

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Three New Plugins for Edublogs

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July 22, 2010
by Mark

Picture 2.jpgEdublogs is a wonderful blogging platform, based on the WordPress system, but is set up for teachers and schools to blog safely with others in Education. It is also free for a basic account. They also offer a paid Pro and Campus account as well. This week Edublogs announced that they are supporting three new plugins for their platform to those paying subscribers who have the Pro or Campus accounts. The three updates are;

1. PayPal Plugin – This plugin allows you to collect donations and payments right inside of your blog. Payments for field trips, materials, clubs and more are now easy to manage – and are available in over 100 currencies and countries

2. Calendar Plugin – It is now easier than ever to keep everyone up to date and informed by using this new powerful plugin. It is easy to manage events, assignments, birthdays, or exams right from inside your blog’s dashboard.

3. Facebook Like Plugin – This plugin will place a “like” button at the top or bottom of your posts. Since many of your students or blog readers are probably on Facebook, this helps build community and interaction on your blog.

Edublogs have recently upgraded these Pro accounts with 10Gig storage. It’s a growing platform that has morphed through some good changes over the years. It’s stable and consistent, and for an educator who is toying with the idea of a blog, either for themselves or their class, look at what this platform can offer. At about $3.35 per month, with no ads and up to 50 individual blogs, it’s well worth considering.

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10 Tips For When Someone Follows You on Twitter

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July 16, 2010
by Mark

What happens when someone follows you on Twitter? Should you automatically respond with a ‘follow’ back, or is there more to this Twitter thing than meets the eye? Terry Freedman has written a fantastic article highlight ten things he does when somebody follows him. Quickly, those ten things are;

  1. Asking, “What’s in it for me?”
  2. Checking the tweets
  3. Checking the numbers
  4. Searching “Who’s Who?”
  5. Check their profile
  6. Check if they have a website
  7. Look at their website URL
  8. Check their website
  9. Check their profile or ‘about’ page
  10. Home at last – The Follow button

Terry’s written some excellent tips within those points, and I’d like to recommend that you read his thoughts, particularly if you are keen on building up an accurate and valuable PLN. You can find the article at Terry’s website – ICT in Education.

Popularity: 6% [?]

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1001 Helpful and Useful Social Media Resources

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July 10, 2010
by Mark

social-media-agency-consultant2.jpgThanks to the resources of the Web2.0 search engine somebody, who seems to have a lot of time on their hands (of which I am not complaining of) has compiled 1001 social media resources. Listed here on the EduDemic website, these are broken down into categories, and one of the features includes the ability to see similar products;

What follows is a huge and long list organized by subject. You’ll likely want to scroll or hit CTRL+F to find what you’re looking for. For example, you can hit CTRL+F and type ‘Pandora’ to see all the other competing companies that are like Pandora, but a bit different. Enjoy!

As I wrote, all the applications and sources are broken down into categories. The categories include;

  • Audio
  • Blog2Pod
  • Blogging
  • Browser
  • Calendar
  • Chat
  • Collaboration
  • Collect
  • Comix
  • Communication
  • Community
  • CRM
  • Database
  • Design
  • Dictionary
  • E-commerce
  • Economy
  • E-Learning
  • Email
  • Filesharing
  • Financials
  • Fun
  • Gambling
  • Games
  • Hosting
  • Identity
  • Images
  • Imaging
  • Jobs
  • Knowledge
  • Lists
  • Mapping
  • Marketing
  • Memo
  • Multimedia
  • News
  • Office
  • OS
  • Outlook
  • Personal Manufacturing
  • Polls
  • Portals
  • Powerpoint
  • Projects
  • Publishing
  • Read
  • RSS
  • Scheduling
  • Search
  • Software
  • Stats
  • Tagging
  • Task Manager
  • Text
  • Text2Speech
  • Time Management
  • Track and Trace
  • Video
  • Voice2mail
  • Voicemail
  • Web2Feed
  • WiFi
  • Wikis
  • Wishlist
  • Word
  • Write

As I noted, there are heaps of categories, some of which I had never heard of. You can imagine the list that these categories provide. Have fun searching, finding and using products for your teaching and learning. Again, here’s the link.

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Updates to SignAppNow.com

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June 29, 2010
by Mark

Last September (09) I posted a review on the web application SignAppNow.com – a site where you can freely host and create simple sign up sheets for sessions or events that you are hosting.  I just received a message from Milo, one of the admins of the site.  He’s alerted me to some updates and tweaks at the site including, probably most important of all, is that there is now a free and a membership version of SignAppNow.  After a free 30 day trial period you have the option to pay a $9.95 membership fee.   The membership now gets you;

  1. The ability to edit and delete sheets and sign ups
  2. Your own personalised URL For example http:<yourschool>.signappnow.com
  3. Access to expired sign up sheets
  4. An ability to set a limit to the number of sign ups.  A ceiling can now be put on the participants of a session
  5. An ability to create private sign ups

These features are not available for the free version.  However, over the last few months, there have also been some adjustments too in this gratis version.  These include;

  1. A spam stopper which they have installed to obviously stop the spam sign ups
  2. No email address is required now; although the option remains to provide one if needed
  3. The ShareThis widgets have been added to the site

You can follow further developments and read more about the enhancements and changes listed above via the SignApp blog.

The SignAppNow site can be accessed here

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Some Lemonade

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April 27, 2010
by Mark

Application: Some Lemonade

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For many people, the internet does not just revolve around Facebook, or Twitter, or Tumbler, or Youtube. In fact, many internet users have accounts at all these applications and more. Some Lemonade exists to simplify the feed that comes in from these accounts. Some Lemonade allows you to ‘filter’ the feeds that you wish to view. Starting with your Twitter sign in, options continue to exist for other application sign ups.

One thing I was particularly impressed with was that the links to pictures and videos that are shortened in the Twitter updates are shown in full blown colour and size.

No doubt applications like this will continue to be launched, and Some Lemonade has shown a cool and refreshing way to update, favourite and read your feeds and accounts.

Popularity: 19% [?]

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Survey Monkey Updates Some Features

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March 31, 2010
by Mark

If you use Survey Monkey then you will probably have already received an email explaining their updates. But just in case you haven’t, or you don’t use Survey Monkey, let me firstly explain SM and then the new updates.

Survey Monkey is a free (and Pro paid accounts) web based survey application that allows you to quickly and easily set up a survey for colleagues or the big wide web of Internet users out there. It can be focussed on your research, customer feedback, private family matters, the choice is yours. You can compile your results and quickly see how people are responding. The great thing is that it is all very easy to do, and the program does all the data indexing for you.

This week Survey Monkey announced this week some improvements to their products. I am always happy to see a company still refining and releasing new ‘tweaks’ to their systems. In short Survey Monkey announced;

  • Customised Survey Links – for Pro accounts you can now add your own link to the end of the URL – eg http://surveymonkey.com/s/endofyearreport
  • Signing in to Survey Monkey with Google account – integration is now available for access with your Google info
  • Language Options – You can now choose from more than 20 languages to publish your survey in
  • Going Dutch – Survey Monkey have now released their website in Dutch, and have plans to release further language editions

Do any of these features work in your favour? What would you like to see from a company like Survey Monkey?

Popularity: 7% [?]

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Video of the Week – Skyping Around the World

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March 12, 2010
by Mark

Bob Greenberg sent me this video that he created where he interviews 6 teachers from around the world about their use of Skype.


Bob has also contributed before to the Video of the Week with his excellent class made video ‘Where The Wild Things Are’

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VuRoom:Instant Video Collaboration for Skype

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March 10, 2010
by Mark

Application: VuRoom: Instant Video Collaboration for Skype

I’m not a huge user of the Skype service, although I know of schools and individuals who do. As a tool in education, this service is becoming more and more necessary. That’s why I was pleased to see the advent of VuRoom. Simply put it’s a plugin multiple party video conferencing tool for Skype. ViVu, the makers of the program, say that the quality of the video feed is high. The key features of the VuRoom are

  • Multiparty Video Conferencing
  • Invite Skype contacts
  • Invite anyone with a browser and a telephone
  • Share slides, video and desktop
  • A personal ViVu folder
  • Compatible with both Windows and Macs

Currently there is a 15 day free trial on offer, however there is a cost of $9.95 a month for continued use, which would mean that anyone you want to collaborate with will need to subscribe to the service as well. (See comments below)

Unless you’re a hardcore Skype user, and before shelling out the $10 per month look at other alternatives such as TokBox, where you can simultaneously video chat with up to 20 people for free.

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