social thinkers

according to John Robb:

"It’s hard to imagine a more derogatory and less descriptive label than “middle class consumers” for the group of people that created most of the world’s massive wealth, rich technologies, and societal complexity."

I do not know what "middle class consumers". . i do not think social networking can change your societies. i think that when you use social media which share other users your ideas but you can evaluate those ideas. you also can challenge someone's ideas.

As we know, most people think that web 2.0 can change cultures but i do not agree with this. It is not easy to change cultures by web 2.0.

what do you think?

Online Polls: Find the best Web Polling Software for your needs

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China, India, Technology, the Future: Did You Know …

I agree with this video. China and India will lead technology in future. Web 2.0 and business 2.0 has a lot of marketing right now.

Twitter in education

Shawn over at Anecdote has a very good description of how he has been using twitter in these first few days (not that he wrote the description specifically about my use of twitter):
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It’s a mistake to think Twitter is only for reporting the minute detail of one’s life, which by the way is an important activity because it helps up create stronger social bonds. Twitter is also effective for asking questions and getting answers, sharing useful links on the web and getting those frustrations out when things are driving you nuts.
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I do use Twitter two months ago I did not have experiences one for online chat sessions among a lof of people I never talked to them before, and that is essentially what that event was, or what it seemed like to me. Not quite as synchronous as an actual chat, but it is not as asynchronous as an e-mail. i do not use Twitter very often but i think it will be a great tool for education.

Live video calling

Tokbox is live video calling system. it is like MSN . it is very good web 2.0 tool. if you want to hold meeting for your business, it is a useful site to do it. i could not find whether they have open source tool or not. it is a good idea to have it. it will have more people to join them

social networking site

Social Networks Monetized Revenue

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if you want to hold a conference, the best way is using ning.com within online conference software. i agree your business will save money for this. due to economic down. it is a good idea to do it. i had a conference by ning.com


Ning provides a good environment to hold any kind of meetings . you may try to use this site. it is really good.

Live video learning language.

Live video learning language. Edufire is live video language learning. it provides tutors to help your language learning. it is community learning sit. However,you have to pay for your tutors. more and more people would like to try this new technlogies. if you want to learnin Chinese. it is a good place to go. You do not need to have camara (webcam). you only need to have microphone because you want to practice language which you want to learn. if you have webcame, you can see your tutors.

TechnOT: TechnOT: UN launches e-learning collaborative effort#links

It is great posted by Hamilton

I was thinking UN had launched for a long time ago.

it is not ture. they just start to launch eLearning collaborative effort. i like this video.

TechnOT: TechnOT: UN launches e-learning collaborative effort#links

Twitter in education

Can Twitter use in education system?

I think Twitter is open software. it has some problems with it. does Twitter design just like Ning.com. It will be better to teachers. As i know, pulic software does not easy control by teachers. Teachers does not know their students who are using it for school lesson.

i prefer to use Ning becuase Ning is like LMS. teachers can control their access. peers in the same classroom can be working together. students will get information from their peers in classroom without outsite junky information.

Big Dog, Little Dog: Flipping Kirkpatrick

The great post by Clark

Big Dog, Little Dog: Flipping Kirkpatrick

Informal learning

Is public software helping such as Linkdin,del.icio.us to our learners? Some critical thinking we should notice about it.

1. Is really helping our kids? will they get wrong information?

2. informal learning vs formal learning

3. if public software is part of our teaching materials , How do teachers tell their students to use it. it will have problmes with freedom issue.

Those problems have been discussion for a while when you use pulic software in your classroom. you may set up those pulic software very careful for them. Otherwise, it will be just waste time it. i mean "very careful" which measn students may use public software to cheat or to do something we do not know. Internet is very popular now. a lot of crimes can learn via internet.

do you have any different views?

eLearning tool: eLearning technology

I have seen a lot of eLearning sites such as faceook, Linkdin, etc.....

some people ask that there is no one to ask math ,science, and chemenstry questions in the Linkdin because Linkdin does not provide equation editor and chemdrawer via web application. if you need to ask those questions, you need to find equations by your own and you can ask questions.

I am happy about it. We found equation editor which create by codecoge and we design our own chemdrawer. It was hard time for us. we keep finding web application for those editors but it is not easy to find it. most of editors are windows application. if you need to ask those questions and somebody will ask it for you.

you may come to our site to ask. we start it next week before students back to school. www.igoabroad.com

Training Design : eLearning Technology

It is great posted by Dr Karrer


Training Design : eLearning Technology

Wiki 3D in Second Life

Wow, 3D wiki using in Second life. How great is. I am using Second Life about three months ago. i like this idea. just like in second life, the creator can their meeting any time. In this case, Wikitecture seems to focus more on emulating physical architecture components.The customers can review at studio wikitecture to see their product or they can vote products which one they are going to buy. the most important idea is that they can also tout their product as a way to do project management online.

Social networking

Does anyone get E-mail from reunion? This is a new social networking site. It is just like facebook. Two years ago ,Facebook also uses E-mail to your friends and your friends send to you to join their site. Wow, i hate this. Anyways it is free why not . please use it

They are focusing on searchng your high school classmates and people search.

Reunion has some many strong investors . It will be more people to use this site in future. I think

i did use it yesterday. it is better than facebook. it is just like the old version of facebook. will you try it ?

eLearning tools

I was busy to find equation editors for IGOABROAD.COM. We have been looking for web applications of equation editors for a long time.

Two days ago, we got codecoge's editor and we also integrated with FCK. Codecog's math editors are not easy to integrate with FCK. Finaly, I found one expert to help us. We are going to save in our server today. i hope it will be working.

As i know, It looks like If you want to have an “html editor” like “FCKeditor” OR a “math formula editor” like “CodeCogs Equation Editor”. it may not easy to display HTML and LaTeX at the same time. That why a lot of people failed to install it. Our DT also failed.

I am really happy . we found a way to deal with it. it is our results to display HTML and Latex. If you want to install it, please E-mail al@igoabroad.com. we will try our best to help your guys out.

http://www.mathdonalds.com/testbed/fck/cceedemo.html

Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation 2008

I had three conferences in this mornting. it was good to hear a lot of information. The conference took place in http://learntrends.ning.com/ The system provided by Elluminate. However, it had some problems with sound and microphone. It is online conference. it won't spend a lot of money to attend it. You can attend any time you want. Dr karrer wll present at November 18, 2008 from 10am to 11am. please be there and join well done presentations.

However, today's conference had some problems with sounds and devices .

Online Scenarios . Today's conference is an example for Collaboration scenarios which is activities involved in the learning process. Online Scenarios can take place at problem solving and Distance learning.

Today's conference has involved two activities. if you have some questions in the session , you may ask right the way. it is call synchronously. you can chat and talk by online conference. i saw about 180 members in each conference. they chat and learn at the same time.

In future, you do not need to pay a lot of money to join conference. you just go to the conference at home. As i know, this online conference has been using for two years. it will use more and more in the future.

Motivations

i found some important elements by E-learning. It called E-motivations. You can design a game.
you can design a role playing. As you can see the video, you will understand it how the kid motivates by themselves. The interesting design will attract more learners motivations . What do you think this video?

New Literacies : eLearning Technology

New Literacies : eLearning Technology

Future education

I think we won't see textbooks in the school. You will find your textbooks on the website and you only need to pay less than you buy it. I know some pioneers have some kind of business. It is a good idea but can they make money right now? I think it is a good time to have this business but not for currently.

For example, Flat world knowledge. they are coming January 2009. i love this idea. They will succeed. no doubt. I may design the same service next year. I will be next company for new service.