I just came across a great article from the Metaverse Roadmap Overview with some interesting findings, discussions and survey results around virtual worlds, game-based learning, augmented reality and other innovative ways or using virtual world technologies mixed with “real world” ones to create new realities.
As stated in the article:
“Virtual worlds increasingly augment the economic and social life of physical world communities. The sharpness of many virtual and physical w... Read Full Story
Opera Unite launched earlier this week, providing services that make it possible for users to share content seamlessly with one another via the Web with no need for uploads! Many tech blogs like TechCrunch are all over this.
Warning, *dork* attempt at a poetic verse: “The cloud just got lighter and can probably fly higher.”
Anyways, this [...] Read Full Story
Too much information out there to keep up with…
What about creating your own Web Apps (browser-based applications) for your most visited websites?
On Windows, use Mozilla’s Prism. Click “download Prism for Windows on the following page and follow the instructions.
For Mac OSX, use Fluid, which works in a similar fashion to Prism but is made to be compatible and integrated with Mac OSX.
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I understand crowdsourcing courses, lessons and other eLearning-related material can be a tough call for any sector (corporate, K12, etc.). But has anyone had any experience crowdsourcing the development of learning experiences from a user feedback perspective at least?
One question could be how is crowdsourcing feedback different from simply putting a feedback button on your website or a particular lesson or product? Crowdsourcing seems to be more powerful since instead of relying on static... Read Full Story
I don’t have a tablet PC or a drawing board (electronic or not). I guess I could create wireframes on basic computer tools like Pencil even using the highlight tools on Microsoft PowerPoint, for instance.
But one tool I discovered recently makes it much easier to come up with mockups very quickly: Balsamiq Mockups. The tools has a small cost ($79 at the time of this posting) but it is worth it.
Features
Drag and drop interface
Hand-drawn look and feel (makes the mockups look like... Read Full Story
Twitter is a phenomenon that keeps growing in popularity. With new developers creating tools to integrate with it, Twitter keeps getting new features everyday and extra data portability functionality…
Twitter also has many look-alikes out there. Does anyone see advantages to Twitter “clones” such as Rejaw and YouAre, and white label or self-hosted solutions ShoutEm and Laconi.ca? Especially for academic institutions and corporate learning departments?
Any advantage at all... Read Full Story
Of course learning languages can be both fun and challenging.
Still in Brazil (in my teenage days) I learned English mostly by listening to my favorite artists, translating their music and making up dialogs in my mind while taking a shower or walking down the street… yes, that crazy…
I also used to go on the ICQ website’s “people & chat” (back in the day) to the regional public chats in the UK, USA and other places were English is spoken as a native language... Read Full Story
Dr. BJ Fogg & Daniel Berdichevsky at Stanford University are gathering articles from various authors into a nice book around the psychology of Facebook.
You can read more about it on their blog.
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In response to Koreen Olbrish’s post about learning that takes place in ARGs:
Here is a good place to find out what ARGs are being played currently. One of the best examples of ARGs I think was the one that warmed players up for the release of The Dark Knight. Just explore the puzzles there, incredible. If I am not mistaken, that ARG was developed by 42Entertainment (the same agency that created the Nine Inch Nails one. Also check out ARGnet for current ARGs.
ARGs are a very interest... Read Full Story
