Learning Tools

• Blogs
• Provides first hand news on various topics
• Can be used as a learning journal
• Provides a tool for a more interactive learning experience
• Establishent -> Introspection -> Reflective Monologue -> Reflective Dialogue -> Knowledge Creation
• Newsreaders
• Allows us to effively track news, changes, and blogs
• Wiki's
• Shared whiteboard
• Collaboration medium
• Groups
• Facilitate discussion
• Online calendars
• Facilitate scheduling and event announcements
• Flickr
• Facilitates sharing of photographs and images
• Facilitates reuse of images distributed under a Creative Commons license
• Conferencing
• Allows real time interaction for distributed groups
• Podcasting/screencasting/videocasting
• Facilitates distribution of rich media
• harnesses the power of RSS for rich media
• ePortfolios
• Facilitates users to track their learning goals and outcomes
• Facilitates users to show case their learning
• Delicious
• Facilitates people to tag resources of interest
• Facilitates community wide sharing of tags
• coComment
• Allows users to track their comments on other peoples blogs
• online mind mapping and diagramming
• Allows users to represent knowledge in a way that is native to their brains
• Second life
• Facilitates an extremely rich distributed collaboration environment
• Uses
• Socializing
• Meetings/Conferences/Barcamps/...
• Customer support
• Virtual workplaces
• Virtual universities