Web 2.0 Advent Calendar
From the Webheads Group list, Moira Hunter has just sent a link to a neat advent calendar displaying Web 2.0 tools.
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The Open Classroom
La Clase Abierta (The Open Classroom) is a blog in Spanish published by Isabel Leal, a teacher of Spanish as a Foreign Language, who worked both in Rumania and France, and her brother Jose Leal, who works for the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Spain and contributes regularly to Aula and Diagonal, El Mundo educational supplements. … Read more
Evo 2007 Call for Participation
Here is THE great online learning experience of the year. It is all free, you meet a lot of interesting people and you do not have to be a member of any group to participate. For six weeks from January 15th to February 25th, participants can engage with other ESOL members in collaborative, online discussion … Read more
BlogHud
Sean McDunnoough must have noticed I was in SL earlier (or guessed I was there) as he skyped me immediately introducing me to BlogHud, a blogging system for residents in Second Life, or as they poetically put it, a live stream of consciousness and experience from another place. It allows the owner to easily post … Read more
SL first reactions
Last weekend I was at my parents (85 and 79). I happened to read an article about SL in a local magazine and started commenting it with my mother who could not understand what I was talking about. As they now have a very impressive system at home (an uncluttered Pentium 4 and broadband connection), … Read more
Debut in Second Life
Snapshot_029Originally uploaded by joannamkay. My First Life is adventurous, busy and disorganized and as a result I am going quite insane with all the work stacked on the table, meetings and deadlines. Among my many good resolutions, I promised myself I would not get involved in anything new until the end of the year. Throughout … Read more
Congress for Cybersociety
I have enrolled for the 3rd Online Congress for Cybersociety,organized by Fobsic (an organization from Catalunya). I do not have much to say but very interested in following the conversations in the different forums. You are allowed to choose 6 to participate in but can read what is happening all over. Here are the ones … Read more
FlickrCC
FlickrCC is an ingenious hack signed by Peter Shanks, allowing you to easily find photos on flickr that were released under the creative commons license. I will suggest it as a must-have on all my students’ blogs. There is a long list of royalty-free photographs on del.icio.us dekita as well.
Edublog Awards
Personal vs. business dimensions of employee blogging: my weblog Originally uploaded by beewebhead. Josie Fraser announces for the third time the Edublog Awards, which recognizes and promotes excellence in the educational use of social software. I won it in 2004 and Dekita got the award in 2005. It is nice to have your work in … Read more
Wikiversity
Leigh Blackall has just pointed to Wikiversity, a community hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. He and Bronwyn Hegarty from Otago Polytech have taken the initiative of building a new course on Wikiversity – Facilitating Online. They envisage starting with material suitable for novice facilitators … Read more