Sunday, October 10, 2010

Webspiration - an online visual thinking tool

"Webspiration™ combines the power of visual thinking and outlining to enhance thinking, learning and collaboration. Use Webspiration to map out ideas, organize with outlines, and collaborate online with teams or colleagues. Create concept maps, mind maps, idea webs and other powerful visual thinking models in Webspiration's Diagram View. Build organized outlines, plans and reports with Webspiration's Outline View.Webspiration unleashes your creativity, strengthens organizational skills, and transforms your ideas and information into knowledge."

Source page...
http://www.mywebspiration.com/

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Cool Science - entertaining questions of all kinds

"At Cool Science, we entertain questions of all kinds (Ask a Scientist). We encourage young scientists to get their hands dirty-virtually (Curious Kids). We offer high school and college students new approaches to cutting-edge science topics (BioInteractive). We provide educators with a host of innovative resources they can use in their classrooms (For Educators). We reveal what it takes to become a scientist (Becoming a Scientist). And we showcase an undergraduate science discovery project that may one day change the way science is taught (SEA). We invite you to explore the many cool features of Cool Science."

Source page...
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.html

Friday, October 8, 2010

WikiMatrix - compare them all

"Find the Wikis that match your personal needs: Just answer a few questions in the Wiki Choice Wizard or create a customized Search. Compare the Wikis of your choice in a comfortable side-by-side table. Just select them on the left and click the button. Use the forum to talk to other Wiki users, ask questions and discuss everything Wiki. Or find professional support in the Consultant Marketplace. Add your own Engine to the Matrix or share your knowledge about Wikis in WikiMatrix's Documentation Wiki."

Source page...
http://www.wikimatrix.org/index.php

Thursday, October 7, 2010

CommunityWalk - mapping made easy

"CommunityWalk is a website that is dedicated to providing a powerful yet simple and easy to use interface for creating informational, interactive, and engaging maps. CommunityWalk began as a site for mapping communities. I thought it would help my mother, a realtor, sell homes. It quickly became evident, though, that CommunityWalk was really much more than this. With a simple and generic interface CommunityWalk quickly became a great site for creating incredibly interactive maps of anything. With the ability to show photos, add comments, display interactive media, hide and show categories of locations, explore hundreds of fantastic maps of anything and everything, and so much more, CommunityWalk is fast becoming the destination site for creating and exploring the most interesting maps on the Internet.CommunityWalk is evolving at a rapid pace, with new functionality added to the site daily. You can read more about the ongoing development on the CommunityWalk Blog. We are always open to suggestions for new features or on how to improve the existing features. We are also very appreciative when people report bugs. So please email us at general@communitywalk.com! "

Source page...
http://www.communitywalk.com/

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Reaching For The Stars - ICT and the future of learning

Friday, October 1, 2010

DiscoverEd - discover open educational resources

"DiscoverEd is an experimental project from ccLearn which attempts to provide scalable search and discovery for educational resources on the web. Metadata, including the license and subject information available, are exposed in the result set. We are particularly interested in open educational resources (OER) and are collaborating with other OER projects to improve search and discovery capabilities for OER, using DiscoverEd and other available tools. Contact us if you are interested in this work. DiscoverEd is a prototype intended to explore how structured data may be used to enhance the search experience; there are a number of known issues. Read our white paper that describes the rationale for and design of DiscoverEd, as well as our thoughts regarding possible future enhancements that could make the tool, or other search tools like it, even more compelling. DiscoverEd is also being discussed among participants of the OER search and discovery community. You can also find slides on Slideshare about DiscoverEd. If you are aware of any related resources, please post them to the OpenEd community site, and we will cross-post them to this FAQ as we can. Where do the results come from? Results come from institutional and third party repositories who have expended time and resources curating the metadata. These curators either create or aggregate educational resources and maintain information about them."

Source page...
http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search/