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Yet another silly attack on Wikipedia

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Tue, 24/06/2008 - 00:37.
Categories: national curriculum | online education | online resources | open source | philosophy of education | use of technology for learning | web 2.0

What was the last time you found something eggregiously inaccurate on Wikipedia? And if the biggest problem in education is the occasional inaccurate information what happened to the skills focus of the last decades?

Dabbleboard: Another online whiteboard hits the internets

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Mon, 16/06/2008 - 11:12.
Project: Education and Technology
Categories: educational web | elearning | online education | online resources | teaching and learning in virtual spaces | use of technology for learning | web 2.0
Digital collaborative whiteboards seem to be the holy grail of educational and presentational services. But by and large, most offerings todate have been less than impressive. Dabbleboard has a lot going for it (primatily simplicity) but will be enough? Personally, I'm more excited about social software used for learning.

Easy online mind-maps

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Sat, 31/05/2008 - 03:26.
Project: Education and Technology
Categories: innovation | online education | online resources
Mind maps are a useful visualisation tool but they are not that easy to create. Text2Mindmap makes it easy to convert a simple tab list into a JPG image. Its greatest limitation is that more complicated maps don't easily fit into one picture.

Britannica opens up (a little)

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Tue, 22/04/2008 - 07:03.
Categories: online education | technology | web 2.0

Does online 'HowTo' craze mean a revival of educational video?

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Sat, 16/02/2008 - 11:41.
Project: Education and Technology
Categories: innovation | IT | online education | trends | video

Daisy Whitney in her latest New Media Minute reports on a recent investment craze in online video How-To sites. Whitney focuses on the relatively mundane aspects of how-to: how to kiss, how to cook, etc. but a closer look at the online video space reveals interesting educational opportunities.