Speakers and presenters at conferences are increasingly finding their audience live tweeting during their presentation. In most cases, the presenter has no clue about what the audience is saying on Twitter. This leads to a disconnect between the true thoughts …
Learning4Content
Nellie Deutsch and Gladys Gahona would like to invite you to a free 5-day e-learning professional development workshop for educators who want to learn how to use WikiEducator and Moodle to share online content with students, create and facilitate online …
Six Easy Ways for Students (and teachers too) to Create Videos Online
YouTube claims that twenty hours of video is uploaded to its site every minute. Much of this video is created by amateur video producers. In years past if you wanted to create video, you had to have (often expensive) recording …
Google Adds World Heritage Sites to Street View
Google has announced more additions to its Street View imagery. Google has added Street View imagery of nineteen UNESCO World Heritage sites around Europe. Some of these sites include the Palace of Versailles, Stonehenge, and the historic center of Prague. …
Survey: One-Third of Youths Engage in Sexting
If you think the sexting phenomenon is growing, you’re not imagining it. According to a new survey, almost one-third of youths admit they’ve engaged in sexting-related activities that involved either e-mailing a photo or video of themselves in the nude …
Sports Illustrated debuts digital magazine concept tablet
Time Inc, the publishers behind Sports Illustrated, has unveiled its digital magazine concept to the world outlining what it thinks an e-magazine should look like.
Twitter Declared Most Popular English Word of 2009
The Global Language Monitor, which tracks language trends, has once again compiled and released its yearly list of the most popular words and phrases within the English language. In 2008, the #1 most popular word was “change” (referring to the …
Why Google Wave Sucks, And Why You Will Use It Anyway
Google Wave is a hot topic at the moment. The ambitious group collaboration and micro-messaging platform started rolling out in beta via an initial batch of 100,000 invitations two months ago. Many people still want invitations. Among those who’ve tried …
Do Serious Games Work? Results from Three Studies
Three studies in higher education look at whether serious games (or video games whose primary purpose is something other than entertainment, such as military training, education, physical therapy) really do change learning outcomes.
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Avatar’ Points Way to Future of Movie Games
In the new videogame based on James Cameron’s highly anticipated sci-fi flick, blue giants deliver a big green message: Greed is bad, and humans are a cancer. But behind the scenes, the parallel teams working on the movie and the …
Facebook’s Road to 350 Million Users
It’s a flabbergasting number, but even more amazing is the speed with which Facebook has managed to achieve it, trouncing its competitors, including the once mighty MySpace, in the process
Classic 1950s Science Textbooks Get a 21st-Century Update
A series of textbooks dating from the 1950s taught a generation of students that science could also be art. But research progresses and artistic methods evolve, so Wired has brought these mid-century classics up to date.
Canada’s TV tax / Save local TV squabble explained
Both groups receive enormous subsidies to promote Canadian television (broadcasters get a ‘local programming fee’ and cable/sat operators get a state-backed monopoly that keeps foreigners out). Both want more money, and both want the other guy to collect the fee, …
First Programmable Quantum Computer Mixes 0 And 1 – Is Awesome, Not For Sale
The future of computing is surely not OS X, or Windows, or even Linux. No, the future of the world of computing is quantum, when instead of creating a zero or one, you can get a shading of the two.…
On Connectivism
Leigh Blackall: “There has been a long and [barren] relationship between education and popular culture for over a century now. Education has been absent from reality for as long as I’ve been a part of it and today is no …