Almost no one works in isolation anymore. We’re all part of teams and committees who are attempting to do all sorts of things together. Maybe we’re joint authoring a paper or developing a presentation. Maybe we’re planning some event together or creating a lesson that we’ll coteach. Regardless of the task, we are working in [...]
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Most people are familiar with Skype, which is the most popular video calling site online. As I’ve written before, Skype is a one stop communication tool, allowing real time chat and voice & video calls to users around the world. For the longest time, however, Skype didn’t support group calls. You could call your all [...]
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It’s often said that “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” The Library of Congress is helping us remember the past with a new tool that was recently released called the National Jukebox. At the National Jukebox, visitors can find streaming recordings of musical compositions, performances and speeches from the early [...]
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It sounds like the punch line for a middle school joke. What would you get if you crossed YouTube and Skype? The answer is a tremendous tool called Wetoku. Like YouTube, Wetoku lets you create videos that stream online. Like Skype, Wetoku allows you to conduct video interviews with people from around the world. Putting [...]
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It’s the end of the semester on campus and I see loads of students lugging around three ring binders to submit as final projects in their classes. When I see these students and their mass of accumulated documents, I’m confronted by two very competing thoughts. On one hand, I’m impressed with the number of my [...]
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