web2.0

Tools for students

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Tue, 03/06/2008 - 12:41.

This list of useful applications for university students was published a year ago but it still has useful ideas.

New online tool helps students share research results

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Tue, 03/06/2008 - 08:44.

iBreadCrumbs.com offers a simple way for students to record their online research and share their results with others. It works by installing a toolbar in Firefox (version 2 only so far) that can be turned on when you're doing research and collects websites you find relevant.

Why have technological revolutions in education failed?

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Sat, 31/05/2008 - 15:05.
Categories: technology | web 2.0 | web2.0
CARE has a long hisotry of tracking the unfulfilled promises of technology in education. Here's a link to an article (from 2000) that suggests some reasons for this, as well as some solutions.

Web2.0 and Higher Education

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Sat, 31/05/2008 - 13:15.
Martin Weller posted an interesting presentation prepared for the Open University on how Web2.0 and Higher Education can go together (The Ed Techie: web 2.0 workshop).

Education in 2025

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Sat, 22/03/2008 - 22:16.

Futurelab held a meeting about the future of education with respect to building new schools and using technology. Below are some of the questions they asked themselves in their group discussion exercise.

Zotero gets even more useful

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Thu, 07/02/2008 - 19:43.

EndNote's main competitor Zotero's main advantage (apart from being free and improving fast) is being able to 'scrape' citations from websites saving us the effort of retyping them. But it can only do that from websites that use a certain standards (such as this site) or that were specifically encoded for Zotero. These now include CiteULike and LibraryThing which have a lot