Archive for the 'education' Category

Tell a story with Chinswing

With Chinswing you can use a microphone to record you voice and tell people something, or just ask, or comment, or… imagination is your limit! Imagine a forum but with no written words, just your voice.
To follow conversations you can Listen on the website, Keep a “watchlist”, and optionally receive email notifications or just Subscribe using [...]

March 4th, 2008 | Posted in chat, education, social networks | 4 Comments

edu 2.0 – next generation education

We have been talking about education tools in the last posts: Web 2.0 ideas for educators, Camtasia Studio 3 now for free, Computer training and also Sciencehack – Science Videos.
edu2.0 is a powerfull tool for education. edu2.0 is more than a CMS, a LMS, a Social Network, a RSS Aggregator or a social software tool. With edu2.0 you [...]

December 9th, 2007 | Posted in education, web 2.0 | No Comments

Web 2.0 ideas for educators

Quentin D’Souza from Teaching Hacks made this book: “100+ Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators: A Guide to RSS and More”. This is specially for teachers and educators, describing how web 2.0 can be used in the Classroom with examples of elementary and secondary teachers.
So if you’re a teacher/educator and want to know more about RSS, feeds, [...]

December 2nd, 2007 | Posted in education, pdf, web 2.0 | 3 Comments

Camtasia Studio 3 now for free

I guess this is Techsmith Christmas present, especially for the education area. Camtasia is now on the 5ht version, so they decided to offer version 3. This tool will help to capture your screen.
You can record (screen, voice, cam) edit and share a presentation. This will help you to demonstrate a program or how to [...]

November 25th, 2007 | Posted in conversions, education, images, video | 7 Comments

Computer training

 
If you don’t know what we are talking about when we talk about computer based training, computer training, computer courses maybe you should try to find something about this. You’re reading a blog, so you should have a common knowledge about computers. You can learn with a computer!
Today most courses have a considerable part of [...]

November 12th, 2007 | Posted in education, review | 1 Comment

Sciencehack – Science Videos

ScienceHack is a video search engine for science videos. This is a recent project with lots of potential, especially in education. All videos in the database are quality checked by a team of scientists, and everyone can submit videos for evaluation. 
They have several categories: Physics, Chemistry, Space, Psychology, Robotics, Biology, How It Is Made, Mathematics, [...]

August 25th, 2007 | Posted in education, video | 1 Comment