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A comment from Marco on my post about Jeremy’s e-portfolio model got me thinking about how nice it would be to have a NetVibes-esque appplication for teachers and learners.  It would aggragate and display - in a public dashboard fashion - recent blog posts; comments; activity on social networking services like Flickr, 43 Things, 43 [...]

EFL podcaster extraordinaire, Graham Stanley (via Nick Noakes), turns our attention to Bubbleshare.com, a web-based application allowing users to create slide shows from photos accompanied by audio captions. Using Bubbleshare is as easy as creating an account, uploading a batch of photos, and then recording a message for each one. After that, with [...]

Jeremy just posted a diagram helpful for conceptualizing the e-portfolio as Personal Learning Environment (PLE).  Frankly, I’m all for doing away with the ‘e-portfolio’ label, as it tends to, conceptually, emphasize product over process.  PLE is a better name.
And I fully agree with Jeremy about the importance of the ‘what you want to do’ aspect [...]

Rudolf recently pointed me to CoComment, an application designed to track and aggregate all the comments you post on other weblogs. The stream of comments is syndicated - making display and sharing possible - and the archives are searchable. It works too; I am now displaying my own recent comments on other sites in my [...]

Although I haven’t found the time to follow the ongoing EVO course on Podcasting in ELT, I have still been able to enjoy podcasting recently.  Starting with me experiments at English Conversations, I just launched Friends World Podcasts, as part of an attempt to incorporate podcasts into the program.
Friends World is a global education program [...]

We’re now moving into Week 4 in our course Interactive Webpublishing 2006 at the East Asia Center:
Now that you all have a basic understanding of how to use the two primary tools in this course - your weblog and RSS feed reader - we will begin exploring skillful means of putting them to use by [...]

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