These tools are not sexy. They do not integrate with Twitter or Facebook. They will not transform the way we teach, learn, think or live. They are only useful for some of the small tedious tasks that go on behind the scenes of e-learning:
pdf to html convert a PDF document to html. Incredibly useful. Free. [...]
Today the mail server is down so I started tinkering with (i.e. breaking) my phone. I’d been thinking about modding my phone so that I could forward texts from my inbox to a twitter account. This has obvious applications e.g. use mobiles as powerful classroom SMS voting devices. I managed to programatically send SMS from [...]
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If you live in Europe you know that the mobile operators are serious cash cows. If you live in Ireland you feel this pain pretty acutely as everything has become ludicrously dear here (isn’t this what happened in Iceland towards the end?).
The problem is that the mobile operators, like the broadband ones, have [...]
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Blogger.com is a blogging platform owned by Google. It hosts blogs that are very easy to set up. Go to www.blogger.com, sign up and you can be publishing web pages through a simple WYSIWYG interface in minutes. Wordpress (WP) is another blogging platform. It’s open source so you can download [...]
Using SMS for education generally costs money. Even if you use free software you will generally end up paying someone for each text you send. However there are free tools out there that incorporate free SMS functionality. Twitter and Jaiku are two simple ones. With these tools you type short messages and they are published [...]
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Prediction: Interactive whiteboards will be obsolete in two years.
Why? Because you can roll your own for less than 500 euro. Moreover this version will be portable and you can face the class when you write.
How?
Buy a usb tablet such as a wacom or wait for Aldi’s graphic tablet [...]
