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Edmodo is a new private microblogging platform developed by two K-12 network administrators/webmasters use in the classroom by teachers and students. Edmodo provides teachers and students the ability to share notes, links, and files to foster communication inside and outside of the classroom. Teachers also have the ability to post alerts, assignments, and events to [...]

I recently received an email invitation to NfoMedia, a new free social networking utility designed especially for faculty and their courses. I’ve setup a free account and poked around a bit, but since NIU isn’t yet listed as one of the home institutions, I’ve not dabbled any further. I’m sure it’s just a [...]

I just stumbled across Kaltura, a free collaborative online video editing tool. Similar to other online media editors like Jumpcut, Kaltura “…is a free online site for group video making. For the first time, users are given the ability to CREATE RICH MEDIA TOGETHER. Like the Wiki platform that enables users to collaborate on the [...]

As I mentioned previously, I’ve been experimenting a bit with streaming video using Ustream. Here’s the archived video from a recent workshop I gave entitled, Redesigning Course Materials for Online Delivery.

This was my first attempt using Ustream and while rather rough around the edges, I learned a great deal and I look forward to continue [...]

I’m trying a little experiment with Ustream.tv, the FREE streaming video service that allows you to stream video with a computer and either built-in video camera or some other video camera that is connected to a computer. Over the next couple of days Tue., 11/27 & Wed., 11/28, I will have my test stream on during the [...]

What follows doesn’t have much to do with pedagogy of online teaching and learning, but it’s a pretty cool little application of web 2.0 technology! I came across a little Flickr utility that lets you spell any word or series of words with photos from Flickr. Great for visually representing an acrostic or key term…
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Here's a great 50 second video introduction to Google Reader.  You can check out the video here or try Google Reader for yourself at reader.google.com.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5980861656829941065

Looks like there's another great video chat client available tha seems to be similar in many ways to Apple's iChat that boasts of up to 6-way video chatting all for FREE!  The service is called ooVoo and more info is at http://oovoo.com
 
When attempting to download, I noticed that they only had their Windows version available. [...]

Thanks to postings from Veronica Belmont and TUAW, I stumbled across a great plugin for Wordpress called iWPhone that optimizes a Wordpress blog for viewing on the iPhone or iPod Touch. I’ve installed this plugin on on this blog, but since I don’t yet have an iPhone myself, I’ve not been able to see yet [...]

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While I’ve not yet done a whole lot with the microblogging tool Twitter, I just came across this thorough introduction to how one might use Twitter.
If you want to give Twitter a try, you can sign-up for a free account here. You can find me at Twitter at http://twitter.com/jrhode
I wonder as [...]

Looking for music and video that is freely available online? Try seeqpod.com. SeeqPod boasts to be the, “first consumer site empowers users by allowing them to search and discover music and video all over the Web. Our intelligent software robots [...]

Dr. Dennis Mills shared this list of research tools and social networking resources. There are so many great resources listed here that I haven’t had a chance yet to review, so I’m just posting his list and look forward to getting back to these…
Search Engines
http://www.scholar.google.com Google Scholar
http://vivisimo.com or http://clusty.com Vivisimo and [...]

I’ve been a big fan of EndNote for years and have used it extensively throughout my graduate studies. However, I’ve longed to be able to take my collection of article bibliographic data and have access to it online. I’ve explored tools like Connotea and CiteULike, having settled on posting my research library on [...]

Google has officially added presentations to its Google Docs suite of web apps. This video depicts the features of using Google Docs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA

Anyone already tried using the new presentations feature in Google Docs? What are your thoughts at this point?

I’ve been wanting to give VoiceThread a try, so using the model of a socially-constructed self-paced learning environment that I developed some time ago, I created the following narrated presentation using VoiceThread. This by no means exibits the full potential of this tool, but it is my maiden voyage using this technology. To [...]