Showbeyond is a multimedia slidecast creator, online publishing platform, and story sharing community. It lets you create, share, search for, and embed multimedia presentations. I think Showbeyond is quite easy to use and you can create a decent multimedia slideshow with Showbeyond. To create your multimedia slideshow, you first upload your images from [...]
Archive for January, 2008
MECA 2008 Conference Presentations
Posted in Educational Technology, Open Source, Software Tools, Web 2.0, tagged conference, MECA, Open Source, presentations, software, tools, web2.0 on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am now attending the MECA (Mississippi Educational Computing Association ) 2008 Conference in Jackson, Mississippi. MECA celebrates the silver anniversary this year with a recorded participants over 1,100. I have been attending the MECA conference since 1995 and have made presentations each year for the past 13 years. [...]
GIMPshop
Posted in Open Source, Software Tools, tagged editing, GIMPshop, GNU, graphics, Open Source, photoshop on January 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a very popular free alternative to Photoshop. However, Photoshop users have a hard time to switch to GIMP because of the difficulty to locate Photoshop’s features in the GIMP. Fortunately, the GIMPshop developed by Scott Moschella can help these Photoshop users. GIMPshop is a fork [...]
Top 10 Tools for Learning 2008
Posted in E-Learning, Open Source, Software Tools, Web 2.0, tagged learning, software, tools, web, web2.0 on January 21, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I was recently invited by Jane Hart, Head of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies in UK, to share my Top 10 Tools for Learning with her. Jane has done an excellent job of compiling the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2007 which provides a very useful information for learning professionals. Currently, [...]
YouTube College
Posted in Multimedia, Web 2.0, tagged college, sharing, video, youtube on January 20, 2008 | 15 Comments »
YouTube offers a new service called YouTube College where students can join their college and share videos only with students from their college. This is an interesting move by YouTube. YouTube College allows students to post videos and create groups that are only available to others in the same college. You can experience everything [...]

























