Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

The iCamp handbook has been recently released. It is a practical guide as to how social software can be used in educational settings, especially in higher education.The handbook addresses in particular practitioners who would like to enhance their online teaching practices with pedagogical activities making use of Web2.0 technologies. You can download the handbook here as PDF or get in contact with any of the iCamp partners for a printed version.

A new version of our federated search portlet ObjectSpot has been released. Be sure to check out its new features and improved performance at www.objectspot.org and also don’t miss the new portlet configurator.

To download and install a complete ObjectSpot instance on your own server, get the most recent version from sourceforge.

The next version of Feedback module for Moodle is released. The tagging support was added. You can download it from iCamp codebase at Sourceforge.net.

Mash-ups, the ‘frankensteining’ of software artefacts and data, have enabled a new generation of learning tools. Web-applications, services, and data can now be endlessly recombined, no matter where they reside. Really? How? Why? Within this workshop at this years’ European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2008), researchers, developers, and an interested public are brought together to share findings and define the future of mash-up personal learning environments.

Click here to learn more about the call for papers (submission deadline: July 1st, 2008). The workshop will take place on September 17, 2008.

It has been developed the new iCamp Help Center which offers guides and tutorials for tools used in Trial 2. This system provides user-friendly assistance during installation and initial utilization of the products. The advantages of the iCamp Help Center are accessibility to everything via the only environment and the possibility of following the guides without interruption of the work with the tool. Moreover, you can register and ask for an additional help. From the administrator point of view, the changes in tools can be very easily and quickly updated.

The present list of supported tools contains:

Doodle
Feed on feeds
Flickr
Google Calendar
ObjectSpot
Scuttle
Sunbird Calendar
VideoWiki
WordPress
X-lite
myDENTITY

The iCamp Help Center has been developed by Petr Dolezel and you can try it out at:
http://helpcenter.icamp.eu/.

In the context of teaching and learning, blogs can do so much more than just delivering instructions or course news to students. Particularly in the field of higher education, a blog might be an interesting tool for learners to market their knowledge assets, track and integrate content of other authors, join a scientific community, build up a social network or giving feedback to teachers and other students. Blogging technology in combination with innovations like the FeedBack specification is definitely a powerful tool for technology-enhanced learning. Interested in utilizing blogs for educational purposes? Have a look at the corresponding deliverable or the trial blog.