Voki is a free service that allows your students to create personalized speaking avatars and embed them on a blog or wiki or send them via e-mail. This service provides numerous features to help students personalize their speaking avatar’s voice, …
Find Top Internet Searches In Your Niche With Google Insights
Today, I’m going to provide a brief overview of some of the coolest advanced features of Google Insights for Search that let you identify not only the top Internet searches, but it’ll let you isolate the top searches within your …
Free Webinar: “Web 2.0 as a Medium for Sharing Knowledge” (February 17th, 2010, from 12:00 – 1:30 pm)
Dr. Enrique Velasco will be on site from UNAM University in Mexico with his students (college teachers) to present his experience on using Web 2.0. He will explain collaborative knowledge building, why it is important, and how we can facilitate …
Microsoft patents ‘personal data mining’
Bill Gates, Ray Ozzie and a bunch of other heavy-hitters from Microsoft are named as inventors on a newly issued patent for a “personal data mining” system that would analyze information and make recommendations with the goal of aiding a …
Textbooks, Wikipedia and Primary Source Research
This article shows an experiment on how to use Wikipedia in your classroom. M. Byrne says: “A couple of weeks ago I sent out a Tweet that my students were working on a comparison of Wikipedia articles to articles in …
Super Bowl XLIV Ads 2010
Television advertisements during the Super Bowl football game get a lot of hype, but we often don’t see the same Super Bowl ads in Canada as in the US. Every year, Canadian stations buy the rights to air the Super …
How well has your institution integrated technology?
Tony Bates writes: “Here’s what I came up with, and I realised that the questions could be used by institutions to provide a framework for an internal audit on technology integration. (Note: by technology I mean primarily information and communications …
5 Questions for Planning Successful Web-Based Activities
Web-based instructional activities have an enormous potential to enhance and entice learning. Unfortunately integrating the internet into your curriculum in a way that has a positive impact on students’ learning is often a difficult process. Below are some questions to …
Visualizing 6 Years of Facebook
Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004 and has come a long way from a Harvard-only networking site in the intervening years. In fact, Facebook has undoubtedly become the world’s largest social network, with over 400 million users worldwide and …
Internet Nominated For 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
The Internet, which has virtually revolutionized world communication, has been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. ‘Organizers said signatories to its petition backing the nomination include 2003 peace laureate and exiled Iranian activist Shirin Ebadi — which would make …
Google Goes Social with Google Buzz
It’s official: Google has just announced Google Buzz, its newest push into the social media foray. This confirms earlier reports of Gmail integrating a social status feature. Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you …
News Map – Visual Display of Trending News
News Map organizes and displays news stories from around the world. News Map uses Google News to source the stories displayed in the grid so the content is frequently updated. The stories are displayed in a color coded grid reflective …
TEDxMcGill Presentations
TEDxMcGill is a student run independently organized TED event at McGill University in Montreal. TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED [ http://www.ted.com ] has grown …
How Can You Find Out Who Is Googling You?
Have you ever Googled a coworker or yourself? Wouldn’t you love to know who is Googling you? Or be notified as it happens? Unfortunately, Google doesn’t reveal this type of information. To obtain this information, you have to set up …
Filtering, Crowdsourcing and Information Overload
Are the training solutions being produced part of the problem of information overload? How do we shift to a position where we are helping to filter information and reduce overload rather than possibly contribute?
http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2010/02/filtering-crowdsourcing-and-information.html…