Category: web 2.0
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Camera phone QuickTime movie mixes
More and more people are getting camera phones that can capture video clips as well as still pictures. You may know teachers, students, or personally want to edit camera phone video clips and make a remix or montage of this videos for subsequent sharing. If you are a Windows user and are wanting to use…
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Custom lego cool creations
My son, Alexander, has added a new feature to his Lego Club Online website, showing the “cool creations” he made with actual legos and photographed using a digital camera. After uploading these images to the Lego Club website, they had to be “approved” by a moderator before showing up. This is an excellent feature of…
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Voices in electronic collaboration
Vaestro is: …audio forum software that you can use on your web site for free. Talk to your friends, host interactive podcasts, or use it like an audio blog. Use it anytime you need to communicate with groups of people small or large. With Vaestro, everyone has a chance to speak and be heard. Our…
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Conversations and content creation
The exciting power of the web is not in mere information access, but in the interactions, conversations, and CREATION of content that is enabled through web 2.0. I know this is a common theme for me and many others in the edublogsophere, but it is still a counter-cultural idea in many schools and warrants repeating…
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Credibility Commons
Credibility Commons has the slogan, “Exploring trust on the Internet.” According to their website: The Credibility Commons is an experimental environment enabling individuals the opportunity to try out different approaches to improving access to credible information on the World Wide Web. Tools will be provided to researchers as well as the public, allowing them to…
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Choices are more problematic than tools
Andy gets it. Why can’t more policymakers? In a comment response to his own blog post concerning proposed US legislation to fiat censorship of many read/write web and social networking websites in US schools and public libraries, Andy Carvin writes: The big problem here is that they’re trying to ban an entire class of online…
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Digital immigrants just don’t get it
Attention getting news item today posted by Andy Carvin and brought to my attention by David Warlick: “New Federal Legislation Would Ban Online Social Networks in Schools & Libraries.” According to Andy: As reported by C|NET, the Deleting Online Predators Act, or DOPA, would update the federal law that currently requires all schools and libraries…
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Podcast57: Think.com and Digital Social Networking
Students generally exhibit high levels of motivation to socially communicate. They like to talk with each other, and in our digital world their desire to communicate often has digital forms. Rather than simply blocking all student access to digital social networking tools, teachers and school administrators should seek powerful tools and environments which permit them…
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OPML Sharing
Share your OPML is a free website seeking: to gather a community of subscription lists, in OPML format, and aggregate them in interesting ways. If you’re not familiar with the acronym, according to WikiPedia OPML: is an XML format for outlines. Originally developed by Radio UserLand as a native file format for an outliner application,…
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Thinkfree challenges MS Office dominance
When many older people think of computer use today, they think of Microsoft Office. Obviously the folks in Redmond must love that, but this phenomenon may be challenged by the website thinkfree.com and its free webservices. According to the April 23, 2006 article in PC World, “First Look: ThinkFree Web App Outshines Microsoft Office –…