Rod’s EdTech Review

This blog is all about Educational Technologies and how to use them.

Entries from December 2006

Moving this Blog

December 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off

I have moved this blog over to http://rodcorbett.blogspot.com/
Now that Google has brought Blogger out of Beta and given it a Categories tool, I switched. Please join me there.

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Selecting an Open-Source Online Course Development and Delivery Platform: An Academic Perspective

December 9th, 2006 · Comments Off

Increasingly, educators are implementing course development and delivery platforms to place their distance courses online in order to expand accessibility to educational opportunities, make use of multimedia capabilities, and provide effective management of the teaching and learning experience…

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Tags: Articles · Free Learning Tools

The Useful Web - Bonus Edition! by Russ Wilde

December 9th, 2006 · Comments Off

Russ Wilde publishes a TechNotes newsletter for Bow Valley College and has generously giving me permission to share highlights of it. Below is an exerts that I think you will find very interesting about more new tools. Some of which I have already reviewed here.

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Tags: Free Learning Tools · Free Teaching Tools

Synergize and Energize Conference

December 7th, 2006 · Comments Off

Mount Royal College, ADETA and McGraw-Hill Ryerson will be hosting the next National Teaching Learning and Technologies conference in Calgary on February 21 to 23, 2007. Early bird registration fees will be $245 before January 19th, I believe. This conference will have many presentations and discussions about Ed Technologies and how best [...]

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mLearning 2006 Conference

December 7th, 2006 · Comments Off

Back in October, I attended a very interesting conference in Banff all about mLearning. This was the 5th annual world conference about mLearning. If you are not familiar with mLearning this is Mobile Learning, so like eLearning but with the focus on using Cell Phones, PDA, Tablet PCS and other wireless devices for learning.

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Tags: Emerging Technologies · Online Presentations

Ray Kurzweil: The Future of Technology

December 7th, 2006 · Comments Off

Ray Kurzweil is an inventor and futurist that has some very interesting views of the future of technology. Click here to view a 23 minute online presentation of Ray’s view of the future of technology and where this is all going in the next 10 years.

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Tags: Online Presentations

Slideshare.net

December 7th, 2006 · Comments Off

Slideshare.net is a site the I recently found that allows anyone with PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress to post a slide show on the web and share it with the world. It is kind of like YouTube for Slideshows. It is free and easy to use. Instructors can use this to post their presentations on a [...]

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Tags: Free Learning Tools · Free Teaching Tools

Google Groups 2

December 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off

Google Groups has been around for awhile but there is a new version out in beta that I have been playing with and it looks very good. Of course it is still free and only requires a google account to access.

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Tags: Free Learning Tools · Free Teaching Tools

e-Learning Environmental Scan

December 1st, 2006 · No Comments

I was just sent the URL to this document. It is an e-Learning Environmental Scan that had been prepared for Alberta Education in March 2006.

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Tags: Articles