Student-Instructor Schedules Management.

Book a Lesson allows you to enhance your lesson experience by giving instant access to your favorite instructors and their schedules. No waiting for voice-mail, callbacks, dropped cell phone calls and other annoyances of the old ways. Book A Lesson is like having your instructors schedule in your hands at all times.



LINK : http://www.bookalesson.com/

Rouxbe: a Step-by-Step Video Cooking Instruction Site.

Rouxbe (roo-bee) delivers a revolutionary online instructional cooking experience that walks you step-by-step through each delicious recipe. It's like having a private cooking school in your home, with a professional chef at your service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Cooking will never be the same again.

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LINK : http://www.rouxbe.com/

Screencast-o-Matic Brings Screencast Creation To The Web Browser.

Screencast-o-Matic from Big Nerd Software brings the creation of screencasts to the web browser.

Screencast-o-Matic records audio and screen activity through the use of a Java applet. The result can then be displayed on the site or exported to Quicktime.

There are various screencast software applications, both free and paid that deliver similar functionality however Screencast-o-Matic is the first I’ve seen that is strictly browser based and by nature works across various platforms.

As a service it’s easy to use. A frame is displayed that can be moved over the appropriate window for capture. Mouse movements can be tracked by a red dot and recording is a simple as hitting a button.

It feels a little clunky, visually it won’t win any beauty awards and the display options are limited. There is no obvious embedding code provided and integration that would support direct uploading of screencasts to YouTube or similar video hosting sites is also lacking.

Issues aside, for casual users Screencast-o-Matic is a handy tool that is bound to be copied by others in the future.

LINK: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

Share your skills with friends, family and the whole world.

Sclipo is a website to share videos about everyday knowledge among everyday people. We believe that the beauty of online skill-videos is discovering the really hard to find answers to those quirky bugs that life throws at you. Sclipo makes finding them that little bit easier in the current tidal wave of online video content, but keeps the whole process dynamic, fun, and completely user generated and assessed. We hope you like Sclipo!


use Sclipo to ...
... share your skills - how-tos, tutorials, advice, tips & tricks - with friends, family and the whole world.
... learn through helpful videos just about anything, sports, software, cooking, cars, ...
... evaluate videos, to help others find the good stuff fast.
... promote your skills and make money. People can pay you for the help you provide through your videos. (You need a PayPal account to be able to receive payment).

LINK: http://www.sclipo.com/

New Compendium of Knowledge

The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding "gentle expert oversight" and requiring contributors to use their real names.

As of March 25, 2007, they were working on over 1,100 articles.One of our projects these days is The Big Cleanup. It's a good way to get acquainted with their work and help out.

100 Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators

This guide provides K12 educators with a number of ways to use Web 2.0 in their classrooms. (By Quentin D'Souza)

So What can You Teach on WiZiQ?

WiZiQ is now available to teachers and students for online tutoring and e-learning. Tutors can sign up free and make money online by teaching their subject of expertise. Students will be able to easily find a tutor, even in their local area by searching for teachers on the desired subject on WiZiQ.

WiZiQ is a web 2.0 online education platform, which empowers teachers to break the barrier of distance. Tutors can globally connect to students who want to learn online, from the comfort of their homes; students can learn and tutors can teach online from anywhere.
A tutor profile on WiZiQ shows teaching and training experience, education, subjects and levels of expertise, time zones and hours of availability, charges for teaching per hour, and teaching preferences. Teachers can also offer free trial sessions if they so desire.

Share your knowledge and skills.

helpfulvideo.com is a website to share videos about everyday knowledge and skills among everyday people. It is better to see ones than to hear or reed ten times.

use helpfulvideo.com to
1.share your skills - how-tos, tutorials, advice, tips & tricks - with friends, family and the whole world.
2.learn through helpful videos just about anything, sports, software, cooking, cars.
3.evaluate videos, to help others find the good stuff fast.
4.promote your skills and knowledge and make money. People can pay you for the help you provide through your videos. (You need a PayPal account and valid email address to be able to receive payment).

Create surveys ,quizes and polls for your site.

Quizical.net allows you to creat some fun/interesting quizzes
Here are some highlights of Quizical:

- create, take, and embed quizzes, surveys, and polls;
- provides an API to allow the creation of applications that use a question/answer format;
- the source code for the flash widgets are provided so you can hack them to fit your needs;
- its all running on Amazon's EC2 & S3 infrastructure.

MIT's OpenCourseWare: Provides free, searchable, course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.

MIT OCW is a large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative funded jointly by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , MIT, and generous support of the Ab Initio software company.

MIT OCW's goals are to:

• Provide free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
• Extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the "opencourseware" concept.

MIT OCW would not be possible without the support and generosity of the MIT faculty who choose to share their research, pedagogy, and knowledge to benefit others. We expect MIT OCW to reach a steady - though never static - state by 2008. Between now and then, we will publish the materials from virtually all of MIT's undergraduate and graduate courses.

We will be continually evaluating the Access, Use, and Impact of MIT OCW. With 1,550 courses published as of November 1, 2006, we are still in a learning stage of this MIT initiative and we will benefit enormously from your feedback, as we strive to make MIT OCW as rich and useful as possible for our users.

OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.

An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

The Goals of the Consortium

• Extend the reach and impact of opencourseware by encouraging the adoption and adaptation of open educational materials around the world.
• Foster the development of additional opencourseware projects.
• Ensure the long-term sustainability of opencourseware projects by identifying ways to improve effectiveness and reduce costs.

Great resource if you are interested in Public Health as a career move.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses. As challenges to the world's health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public's health and their potential solutions.

Zimbio helps members quickly get down the learning curve on any topic of interest.

Zimbio Public Portals are information guides to help members quickly get down the learning curve on any topic of interest.

Each portal is a guide to a specific topic, and includes:
Multimedia Bookmarking

Links to websites, articles, and RSS feeds to help you quickly find valuable background information or news on the topic

Photo Albums to help you save and organize photos related to the topic

Video Playlists to help you save and organize videos related to the topic
Group Discussions

A Group Blog where you can share your thoughts or read public opinion

A Discussion Forum where you can pose questions to the community
IM

Instant Messaging and Live Chat so you can connect with like-minded people in real-time
Topic Tracking

Search Trackers to help you stay up to speed on the topic. See keywords that members recommend using and scan current results.

Subscription services such as RSS feeds and customizable OPML allow you to subscribe to Zimbio portals from your personal page, browser, or reader.

tteach.com : a free interactive knowledge sharing website.

tteach is a free interactive knowledge sharing website. Here anyone can teach, learn & share their knowledge, educational resources & original classes worldwide through a unique, well designed, interactive & user-friendly interface.

tteach is essentially... a free online school where anyone can learn and anyone can teach (as long as long as you know your stuff!). Teachers earn a share
of advertising revenue & learners create their own schools of knowledge - remember anyone can be a learner & anyone can be teacher...depending on what you already know and what you'd like to learn about! Subjects will vary from the academic through to life skills – everything is welcome as long as it is good quality teaching & there are people out there who are eager to learn about it.