May 2006 Archives

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by over 200,000 people from around the globe. [more]

now the question is, what's the (future) potential of such development in the internet for education *hmm*

read about second life off will r. 's blog post.

This webpage maintainde by John Larkin lists a number of useful resources for educators who would like to find out more about and to create podcasts. A list of ideas for educators trying out podcasting as a teaching and learning strategy is also available. And a guide to configure your microphone too !

Check it out :)

This guide would be useful if you intend to clean up your podcast files. The write up gives an overview of the types of noise, the strategies to remove those noise and a list of commercial software which you can use to clean up those files.

microsoft is building direct blogging from word feature into its next release of office. read this post for an introduction to the software by Joe Friend, a lead program manager. and if you are interested, can also checkout slashdot for the comments left by the folks.

CALL-EJ Online is a refereed professional journal on Computer-Assisted Language Learning and related fields. It is published biannually. It began publication in 1999 after CALL-EJ in Japan and On-Call in Australia joined together. CALL-EJ Online is now an international journal that welcomes contributions from around the world.

And the site contains a list to other CALL journals.

saw this while reading my feeds: Skype Now Offering 100-Person Audio Conferences, any CMC researchers/practitioners interested to try?

software concerned: skypecast

[source: newsfactor.com]

you like sudoku? you own a tablet PC? if answer is yes to both, check out what microsoft has released for you :-)

[source: the student tablet pc]

looks like if nokia is building podcasting application into their h/phones, soon we'll need not worry about portable mp3 recorders/devices; at least here in singapore i believe :o

[source: gizmodo]

if you love biscuits, check out this website to create some :P

something for you to sample:

This EDUCAUSE article looks at some of the social software that can be used in education. Blogs, wikis, VoIP, social bookmarking, social networking. A resource list and examples are listed at the end of the article. A PDF version is also available.

[source: EDUCAYSE Quarterly]

extending this post as i came upon Christopher D. Sessums's post that discussed abt "Social Software and the Co-Creation of Knowledge". something related and a good read for reflection.

A podcast directory for Australian. The site is community driven and offers tagging and community bookmarking.

Sites in the directory must be:

* an audio or video podcast
* about Australian subjects/topics; by an Australian; or have a .au domain
* non-adult content

obtained via Podcasting News

This web site would serve as a good reference to understand colours, and also colours for the web.

Some of the topics that are explained:

• color theory
• the color wheel
• color combinations
• color physics
• color psychology
• how to create a great color scheme for your website

Check it out :)