Blog Archive » More Flickr Fun Apps More Flickr Fun Apps Saturday, July 17th, 2010 | Author: Jen I really enjoy Flickr, as I noted in a previous post: A Dozen Flickr Fun Favorites!. Spell with Flickr – type any word or short phrase into the online form to view marvelous scrapbook-like letters comprised of Flickr photos. qflick – a search tool that can be used to search for Flickr images. Pictobrowser – post interactive slideshows on your blog featuring your Flickr images. Make your thinking and planning smarter and faster | Seavus DropMind™
Making Twitter a more versatile tool More than just a flavor of the month In a recent discussion on a LinkedIn forum for Learning, Education, and Training Professionals, someone posed the question: “Is anyone using Twitter as a training tool?” I was surprised to see h0w polarized the conversation became. Many of those who derided the suggestion argued that Twitter’s 140 character limit curtails or outright prevents its use in training because you can’t have a meaningful discussion in 140 characters or less. Quite a few people seemed to feel that Twitter’s just another flash-in-the-pan tool. Twitter for education and training While it’s easy to say that the naysayers “just don’t get Twitter,” the discussion made me consider how I use Twitter. So with this disclaimer out of the way, I’ll put my stake in the ground and say that Twitter: But it’s still very useful as one part of an arsenal of many training tools. Twitter allows you to: Becoming a Twitter Power User Finding information Productivity tools Communication tools Showing
40 Ultimate Useful Mind Mapping Tools [ad#link-unit-post]Mind Mapping Applications working as powerful in this era for taking notes, capturing ideas, represent words, exploring concepts or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing. Mind Mapping Tools helps in many way of work in this growing and emerging industry, you can use it to study for a big exam, you can use it brainstorm new article ideas as bloggers work, or flesh out what needs to be covered in the business plan for a new venture, you can organize a big move of house, I’ve seen people use the mind map format for their daily to-do lists too. Hope you all respected visitors and readers like very much and share your views about this article for encouragement. Bubbl.us A flash based brainstorming tool that you can share with others and also embed in to your site. MindMeister WiseMapping Mindomo CmapTools Curio
Pearltree: a bookmarking and visualization tool Pearltree is a social bookmarking tool that allows you to organize your Web pages and easily find pages that others have bookmarked. The technology (or what are my powers?) As shown in the video, Pearltree is both a bookmarking and a visualization tool. As you create Pearltrees (analogous to lists or folders), you’re able to see the connections between your trees and the trees of other users. Your view expands to reveal other Pearltrees on related topics. You also can find related Pearltrees by using the search field. In my hands, this allowed me to find the more relevant Pearltrees. You can add the Pearltrees that others have created to your own Pearltree and your expanded Pearltree will receive updates each time new pearls are added to these Pearltrees. Your ultimate tree can become quite complex. One particularly nice feature of Pearltree is the ability to sync it with Twitter. Instructional strategies Like this: Like Loading...
Free Mind Mapping Software There are a few advantages to creating your mind maps with computer software. Here are a few: It saves time! So it seems great eh? This is because it has been proven that your brain connects to your hand and makes links with what you are writing. So what it all comes down to is this: If you are using mind maps in a work environment to plan, organise and systemise, you may be better of with free mind mapping software. Personally, I prefer drawing but that's just me :) If you think you are going to be using mind maps a lot and would like to have a more advanced and state of the art software with which to create your mind maps, you may want to check out the mind mapping software page. The Software Free MindFree Mind is a basic open source program that can be used with an easy interface to create mind maps. Mind MesiterMind Meister is an online mind mapping program that allows you to create mind maps without having to download any software. Best of luck in finding the perfect software :)
Personal Learning Networks Recently, I did a special guest post on Buffy Hamilton's amazing blog regarding Personal Learning Networks. While I didn't want to rehash all of that here, I did want to share who some of my vital members were for those looking to start their own PLN. I like to think of these people as more then just a social network but almost like my "online family". I owe so much to each and every one of them as they have provided unlimited resources/support while never asking for anything in return. This list is in random order and just a few of the names of the many that I'd like to include. Buffy J Hamilton - Librarian of the future, her resume speaks for herself.
15 Great Mindmapping Tools and Apps Mindmapping is the process of drawing up diagrams that show relations between various ideas, tasks or information. For many of us this shows to actually be a way of taking notes that can be more useful than just writing down keywords or sentences like we do on a to-do list. By drawing mind maps you actually visualize your tasks and how each task can influence each other in a better way, making your brain remember more easily and/or come up with new ideas. The Tools There are various tools for mindmapping out there, both free and paid versions. In this article I will focus solely the free options. The ones that require any installation, can be run on all platforms that support Java unless something else is specified. Freemind ↓ I found the application quick to install and very easy to understand, – which is probably why it is one of the more popular. You can download Freemind here. Xmind ↓ Xmind has a more professional business-like look compared to FreeMind. You can download Xmind here.
The Rapid eLearning Blog Creating great interactive learning experiences requires a few core building blocks: relevant content, pull versus push, and real-world decisions. With those building blocks you're able to structure effective learning scenarios that are meaningful to the learner and helps meet the objectives of the course. One of those building blocks in creating relevant content or content that is placed in a meaningful context. Essentially, you want to recreate the types of scenarios that are similar to the ones the learner has in real life. Read the full article After last week's post on the different drag & drop interaction examples, I had quite a few emails asking for tips on how to create drag and drop interactions for elearning. Sliders are used as a means to make adjustments/selections or as a simple way to navigate content. It helps to look at what others are doing to get ideas and inspiration for your own work. Keyboard Accessible: try the regular way and then try using the keyboard. ...