The Future of Learning

cctext

"The Best Collaborative Wiki You've Ever Seen" - that is how cctext is promoted.

Features include:

• Powerful Markup/Editor
• Rich Content Sharing 
• Access Controls for users
• Friendly to Google Apps users

Pricing is $4 per user per month, and the first 10 UMs(user-month) are free.

cctext

60+ wiki tools here

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Knowledge Notebook

Knowledge Notebook is designed for high school and college students. Some of its key features are:

• Smart note-taking
• Free association of notes
• Smart view and search
• Activity scheduling

Find out more in this video:

Download a 15-day free trial at Knowledge Notebook

70+ note-taking tools here

5 great resources to find out about Google Wave

Have you got your Google Wave invite yet?  Even if you haven't, you can find out more about it in these articles and postings, and what it can do for education and training.

1. Google Wave's Best Use Cases, Lifehacker, 14 October 2009
2. Google Wave will revolutionise online classroom instruction, So You Want To Teach, 30 September 2009
3. Google Wave: a complete guide, Mashable, 29 September 2009
4. Learning Waves from Google, Donald Clark, 6 June 2009
5. 6 ways that Wave is going to change your business, career and life, thinkVitamin, June 2009

Want to read more, here's our Google Wave reading list

And the Google Wave site is here.

MyBrainshark

I have mentioned the Brainshark Content Network before, but here's an update as the service has now been re-launched - simply called myBrainshark.

All the content and functionality of the original Content Network remains, but the interface has been improvied and they've added some new capabilities, and also opened up the publishing opportunity to anyone who want to sign up – and it remains free!

Here's a 2-minute Introduction:

And here’s a recent article published by BusinessKnowHow about myBrainshark that summarizes its features and benefits.

MyBrainshark

My blog postings and bookmarks this week

Here is this week's round-up of my blog postings and Delcious bookmarks:

Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day

• uSync
• Learn a new language with ELLA
• DocVerse
• Digital Divide in the UK
• txtFeeder
• Last few weeks to contribute your TopTools for Learning

Social Media in Learning blog

• LinkedIn Profile Organizer
• Free Powerpoint Twitter Tools
• A History of Social Media
• Twitter App Directories - Official/Unofficial?
• Culture eats strategy for lunch
• Slideshare Business

All things Elgg blog

• Featured Elgg site #4: Student Lanka Learning Community

Delicious bookmarks (these will open in a new window)

• 60 Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College
• OggChat - Live Chat Software for Customer Support and Sales
• Twenty-two power laws of the emerging social economy
• A Majority of Companies Prohibit Social Networking on the Job, CIO Survey Reveals
• Google Wave 101
• HOW TO: Manage a Facebook Group
• Facebooking at work: A brief commentary | Psychology Today
• 1st Global Peter Drucker Forum - 19-20 November 2009, Vienna, Austria
• Managing Social Media Risks -- THE Journal
• Social Media Usage Policies: Less Lawyering, More Encouraging
• Real-Time Collaboration Has Stalled...For Now
• 100 Must-Read Blog Posts on the Future of Learning - and my post is at No 1 :)
• How to build a Facebook community

Last few weeks to contribute your TopTools for Learning

203 learning professionals (from workplace learnng and education) have now contributed their Top 10 Tools for Learning to help build the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 list.

I shall be closing for contributions on November 15th in order to finalise the list, so there are only a few weeks left to share your list - or even update it - if you have already done so.

There are a number of different ways you can contribute:

• Send a tweet to @c4lpt with the names of your Top 10 Tools
• Write a blog posting and then tweet @c4lpt or email jane.hart@c4lpt.co.uk with names of the tools and the reasons why you like them - and we will must link to your postine
• Email jane.hart@c4lpt.co.uk  with the full details.

Further information on how to contribute is here

txtFeeder

txtFeeder is a free service that helps you avoid data charges.

Read the web on your phone through text messages!

txtFeeder

Digital Divide in the UK

David Over who manage the 21st Century Challenges series - www.21stCenturyChallenges.org at the Royal Geographical Society left a note on the blog about their next event.  It seems to me this deserves a wider audience, so I am reposting it here:

Our next event is on "Digital divide in the UK" focusing on the 17m people in the UK who are not online. Event is on 1 December at 7pm in London.

Martha Lane Fox confirmed on the panel and discussion will be chaired by BBC Tech corespondent Rory Cellan-Jones.

Full details here: www.21stcenturychallenges.org/challenges/digital-divide/

DocVerse

I've posted briefly about DocVerse earlier this year, but I recently received an email from Shan at DocVerse to tell me that DocVerse now supports the entire Microsoft Office suite - Word, Excel AND PowerPoint.

Shan writes "DocVerse will literally change the way you think about working with other people on your documents.  It is the FIRST product to allow multiple people to edit the same document at the same time.   It lets you share documents with each other easily over the web and automatically tracks version history, eliminating the pains of using back-and-forth email attachments".

DocVerse

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Learn a new language with ELLA

ELLA offers online courses in 5 languages: English, Spanish, German, French, and Dutch.

• Plunge into realistic videos and animations
• Widen your vocabulary and improve your pronunciation
• Reinforce your grammar with more than 5,000 rules and exercises
• Follow your progress in real time

Watch this short video to discover their online language courses.

7-day free trial available

ELLA

PLUS! More than 150 websites to learn a language here.