tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90566960554793373492024-08-31T16:37:45.192+08:00Sharing resources, tips and experiences in <strike>web</strike> technologies <br> for teaching and learningMelailahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07382606528367450611noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056696055479337349.post-54939510136884581152009-02-01T17:59:00.004+08:002009-06-21T18:36:06.647+08:00

In December 31, 2008, Google shut down Lively, and along with it, all 3D chat rooms, including The Kape Shop. Here's a video tour to remember the 3D virtual coffee lounge with my real-life landscape photos, and my virtual-me, melailah. At end of this video tour, melailah will show you how a 3D avatar dances to Shakira's SuerteSuerte, and how rofl (roll on the floor laughing) becomes literal.

Melailahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07382606528367450611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056696055479337349.post-58564229110918423192008-10-02T18:07:00.006+08:002008-10-03T16:59:09.927+08:00

This webinar by Karl Kapp introduced the use of web 2.0 technologies as tools for collaborative teaching and learning, within and outside the classroom. Using his own blog , his class wiki and podcasts on YouTube created by his students, as examples, he showed (among others):how students (future professionals) learn by interacting with alumni;how students’ learning community extends beyond the

Melailahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07382606528367450611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056696055479337349.post-39042277377989171262008-09-30T10:12:00.001+08:002008-09-30T10:13:29.264+08:00

This education portal website has links to sites where you can avail of Open Courseware for self-paced distance learning.

Melailahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07382606528367450611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056696055479337349.post-80911696270604894802008-09-28T13:04:00.007+08:002008-09-30T11:23:31.389+08:00

Here's a fun (and mess-free) way of identifying the insides of a frog. Check out the web demo of a Virtual Dissection CD at Froguts.com. Local students and Biology teachers will love this interactive multimedia CD. And so will frogs.[Update 9/30: Here's another way of virtually dissecting a frog - http://froggy.lbl.gov/virtual/. This one is free, unlike the Froguts CD which requires

Melailahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07382606528367450611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056696055479337349.post-17753508902932617212008-09-25T23:37:00.019+08:002009-02-01T18:21:58.677+08:00

Lively is the newest social networking website beta-released by Google. Online friends, in the “person” of their animated avatars, meet in 3D chatrooms. Here is the video Google made to introduce Lively:Lively went live for user testing just two months ago (I learned about it in from this blog post). It is still in its beta phase, so expect some difficulties from delayed responses to the worst

Melailahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07382606528367450611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056696055479337349.post-39305698536550333632008-09-22T18:49:00.013+08:002009-02-01T18:22:28.204+08:00

Unleashing my (imagined) creativity, I interior-designed my own coffee lounge as a cozy space for online friends and colleagues. The lounge is a 3D chatroom in Google's Lively, just one of many virtual rooms created by Google users.I enjoyed doing the interiors - rearranging sofas and coffee tables, hanging picture frames with my real-life landscape photos, attaching a video screen with streaming

Melailahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07382606528367450611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056696055479337349.post-44468246681363070632008-09-18T10:18:00.001+08:002008-09-23T10:25:57.552+08:00

Here are two good videos to introduce you to Second Life.This one shows Second Life possibilities to education.

Melailahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07382606528367450611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056696055479337349.post-67444478514178979042008-09-15T19:47:00.015+08:002008-09-23T10:20:38.131+08:00

You think a techie and a web-savvy person would know? Not Mr. H, who spends most of his awake time in front of a computer - websurfing and logging to techie forums here and there. He asked me, "Second life? As in, your life after this one? But it can be your third life... and what if you reincarnate as a bird?!"Mr. H, in Second Life, we can chose to be anything we want to be. You see, SL is a

Melailahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07382606528367450611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056696055479337349.post-55208730569687951972008-09-12T22:34:00.007+08:002008-10-02T18:17:06.482+08:00

Virtual-me attended the 911 Memorial at Second Life NYC World Trade Memorial Center, yesterday, Sept. 11. Citizens of Second Life (SL), an online 3D virtual world, gathered to listen to the names of the almost 3,000 victims of the 9.11.01 tragedy. Virtual-me is sitting on the grass, corner lower right in the snapshot above.Watch the photoslideshow below to view the :9.11 Never Forget

Melailahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07382606528367450611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056696055479337349.post-40039555132514300102008-09-08T12:06:00.027+08:002008-09-26T00:08:35.333+08:00

It was not like any I have attended. I learned how to make a bedroom mirror-dresser in a class conducted in a park! An entirely new experience, really. Not because furniture-making is non-techie in my list, nor because a park is an unlikely venue for a carpentry class. What's unique about it is, everything was virtual! My virtual self, together with my virtual classmates, learned how to make

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