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A new generation of students, those born with the Internet already on, has recently begun entering the world-wide school system with a set of characterizing traits and unique learning interests that presents a true challenge to existing educational institutions. Photo credit: piksel The students of the net generation comes in fact to the educational system with a strong desire to learn and comprehend, often developed thanks to previous exposure to the net and to the personal experiences of self-discovery, personal search and critical thinking that the Web has offered them. This is a generation of goal-oriented, cautious, pragmatical students who sincerely care about their education in ways we have not seen happen in previous generations. "Having been raised in an …

Teemu Arina: "Key enemies? Well, nowadays when the world is so networked and so complex I think that those people who I might think are ideologically my enemies are really also potential people to cooperate with, so there is no meaning with having a conversation with those who agree with you. Teemu Arina So those who are enemies are actually the most important resource for you to learn and reflect on your thinking, because they bring such different points of view in a conversation, so I can\’t point to any single enemy." While informal and mobile learning were the themes of the first part of the video interview with Finnish futurist and learning scholar Teemu Arina, in this second round …

What does the future of learning look like? Thanks to my good friend and senior corporate learning researcher and independent writer Jay Cross, I have had the good fortune of meeting Teemu Arina, a young Finnish educational scholar, with lots of good ideas, a fully working brain and a vision for the future as only a few are able to crystallize. Photo credit: Robin Good video interviewing Teemu Arina in the park of S.Angel Castle in Rome I found Teemu to be a true thinker, and one that does like to stretch the definitions of what is possible and what\’s not. Open-minded and capable of evaluating viewpoints different than his, he is also a pragmatical individual understanding the true limits …

Video conferencing: A much improved version of VSee videoconferencing solution launches today, bringing this very promising and talented video conferencing solution ahead of its key few competitors. The new video conferencing solution by VSee not only sports an outstanding full web conferencing feature-set paired by great usability and solid performance, but it also follows on the success track of other "2.0" companies by introducing free high-quality multi-party video conferencing for everyone at cost zero. Robin Good chats to Milton Chen over VSee Thanks to VSee Milton Chen, me and Michael Pick have been invited a few days ago to test their new video conferencing technology and, while we were not new to it, what we saw left us very impressed. …

1. Video sharing community allows you to create your own video channel
2. Video playlist creator lets you build up and share your own video playlist
3. Video encoder enables you to encode your own videos within your browser


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4. Project management tool lets you manage tasks and collaborate online with your team
5. Web calendar allows you to manage your events and sends you SMS and email reminders
6. Desktop publishing set of tools enables you to create, manage and distribute presentations
7. Online pools creator lets you create your own pools and view the results by age, sex and location
8. File sharing service allows you to share files that are on your computer with people you invite
9. Visual search engine for Flickr images enables you to find all the pictures released under the Creative Commons license
10. Wiki creator lets you set up public and private wikis and edit them with other people

1. LiveVideo
   
   LiveVideo is a video sharing community that allows you to create your own video channel. LiveVideo offers customizable video streaming options that allow users to embed all your videos in one player and embed it into any web pages. Currently videos up to 100 MB can be uploaded and there is no length limit. Free to use.
   http://www.livevideo.com
2. Feedbeat
   
   Feedbeat is a service that allows you to build up your own video playlist that you can share with others. Adding new videos to your playlist is easy: simply browse the sites of the video-hosters that feedbeat supports. When you find a video you like, copy and paste the page URL into your ‘channel-manager’. Feedbeat automatically will catch the video out of the mentioned site. You can also watch the playlists with any RSS-compatible video player and internet TV software like Democracy and Fireant. Free to use.
   http://feedbeat.net
3. Hey!Watch
   
   Hey!Watch is a web-based video encoder that you can access from any devices connected to the Internet. You can subscribe to your own podcast feed and get automatically your encoded videos. The list of available encoding formats updates daily. Hey!Watch is free and you need to request an invitation in order to use it.
   http://www.heywatch.com
4. Wrike
   
   Wrike is a project management tool that allows you to collaborate online with your team. Wrike does not limit the amount of activities you can keep track of. You can enter new tasks via email simply by adding wrike@wrike.com to the recipients of your email. There is no need to download or install anything on your computer. Wrike is free to use.
   http://www.wrike.com/
5. MyMemorizer
   
   MyMemorizer is a web calendar that offers with SMS and email reminders. You add events on important dates or subscribe to shared groups. MyMemorizer is free to use if you plan to receive max 2 free SMS reminders per day. In case you need more, you can always buy extra SMS/Text Messages. Free sign up.
   http://www.mymemorizer.com/
6. iPresent
   
   iPresent provides software tools that allow anyone to create, manage and distribute presentations, training materials, lectures, and demos over the web. iPresent combines an intuitive desktop authoring tool (iPresent Presio) with a web-based, multimedia publishing system (iPresent Online). Download the free beta.
   http://www.ipresent.net/
7. Vizu
   
   Vizu is a service that allows you to create your own online polls, post the results, and analyze the data. Polls can be easily shared through a variety of online channels, including email, IM, RSS, blogs, or Web sites. Instead of just looking at the results of a given poll, you’ll be able to view the results by age, location and gender which is a very interesting feature. Free to use.
   http://www.vizu.com/
8. OnShare
   
   OnShare is a service that allows you to share files that are on your computer with people you invite. If you have more than one computer, you can easily share between them wherever they are in the world. With OnShare, your friends appear as drives on your computer, meaning you can access their shared files directly from within Windows. Free to use.
   http://www.onshare.com
9. FlickrCC
   
   FlickrCC is a search engine that allows you to find photos on Flickr that were released under the creative commons license. To use this web application just enter a word (or words) into the textbox. Click on ‘find’ and you’ll get all photos with a CC license that match the search word(s) in the picture’s title, tags or description. Pictures are sorted according to the “interestingness” criterion, which means that you get the photo voted most interesting first.
   http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/
10. Zoho Wiki
    
    Zoho Wiki is a service that enables you to create public wikis and share them with other people. All your public wiki pages will be automatically indexed and cached by search engine robots and hence will be listed in search results. You can set different access to different documents: private, public and group access. Free to use.
    http://wiki.zoho.com/