12º Foro de Innovación: Visualización de la información: una herramienta para el análisis y la investigación El duodécimo Foro de Innovación que se celebró el pasado día 28 de septiembre de 2011 y trató sobre la visualización de datos. José Luis de Vicente, director del programa Visualizar del Medialab Prado, Madrid, nos presentó esta iniciativa, así como diversos proyectos en los que se utiliza la visualización de datos para mostrar los resultados de sus investigaciones. Temática del Foro. Nuevas tecnologías y redes sociales: ¿Google nos hace más torpes? en mp3 (25/07 a las 13:35:00) 40:14 745476.
Creative Stars. Artisteer - web design software and joomla template maker. Tutorial Drupal. ClassJump.com - free websites for teachers. Convert Web Page to PDF - #1 Web to PDF Converter. 25 collaboration tools you should not miss. Collaboration Ideas. Moodle tool guide for teachers [Infographic by J. Seitzinger] eFront: Top 10 Open Source e-Learning Projects to Watch for 2011. 2011 is the e-Learning year!
Traditional instructor led training is expensive and, in some cases, difficult to track its effectiveness. e-Learning is the only solution for organizations to save time and money and benefit from just-in-time training, faster learning, consistent instruction, higher levels of retention, greater levels of assessment, no travel expense, and no need for a classroom! However, nowadays small and medium size organizations struggle to adopt an expensive e-Learning solution.
This is why I created the following list with the Top 10 open source e-Learning projects for 2011 that will help you implement a low cost e-Learning solution. Enjoy! We support Free eLearning! App Inventor – (mLearning) App Inventor for Android allows people with minimal programming experience to create simple, personal apps for Android devices.
BigBlueButton – (Web Conferencing) BigBlueButton is built for Higher Education. By Christopher Pappas M.B.A., M.Ed. Serena Open Source and Hosted Project Management Software. 8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education. The Education Tech Series is supported by Dell The Power To Do More, where you'll find perspectives, trends and stories that inspire Dell to create technology solutions that work harder for its customers so they can do and achieve more.
Don Knezek, the CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education, compares education without technology to the medical profession without technology. “If in 1970 you had knee surgery, you got a huge scar,” he says. “Now, if you have knee surgery you have two little dots.” Technology is helping teachers to expand beyond linear, text-based learning and to engage students who learn best in other ways. Its role in schools has evolved from a contained “computer class” into a versatile learning tool that could change how we demonstrate concepts, assign projects and assess progress. Despite these opportunities, adoption of technology by schools is still anything but ubiquitous. 1. 2. 5 Innovative Classroom Management Tools for Teachers. The Smarter Products Series is supported by IBM.
Find out more about how IBM is working to create a Smarter Planet. Few teachers are drawn to the profession for its administrative duties. But the reality of attendance taking, lesson planning, grading and parental communications is that they're a big part of the job. These tasks, however, need not take over. With help from the many online services and mobile apps designed for teachers, it can be easy to efficiently organize and complete classroom management responsibilities.
Here are five of our favorite virtual tools for tackling some of the most common classroom chores. 1. SchoolCircuit won us over by making its online gradebook easy to access for parents and students, and easy to manage for teachers. The interface makes it easy to create classes and notifies the teacher when students and parents create their accounts. The Case for the Virtual Classroom.
Online education is often dismissed as a pipeline for expensive degrees of little value and a sponge for veterans’ tuition payments.
But while it’s true that for-profit universities have made a hefty business out of e-learning, it’s becoming apparent that learning online can also benefit almost everyone else. “It’s very clear that five years from now, on the web, for free…you will be able to find the greatest lectures in the world on the web,” Bill Gates recently predicted in an interview at Techonomy 2010. Gates is not the only smart guy pulling for online education to extend the reach, affordability, and even quality of education. 4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web. Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur.
He is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites. His book Curation Nation is slated to be published this spring by McGrawHill Business. As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow, we're finding ourselves drowning in a deluge of data. Where is the relevant material? Where are the best columns and content offerings? The solution on the horizon is curation. In the past 90 days alone, there has been an explosion of new software offerings that are the early leaders in the curation tools category. 1.
Storify co-founder Burt Herman worked as a reporter for the Associated Press during a 12-year career, six of those in news management as a bureau chief and supervising correspondent. At the AP, editors sending messages to reporters asking them to do a story would regularly write, “Can u pls storify?” 40 New Social Media Resources You May Have Missed.