Tag Archives: webapp
When Pearls Hold Your Web Pages
When working with web bookmarks, what is more satisfying that collecting good ones, organizing them, and sharing them the way that you want? Tags aside.
Instructional Technology Grants Showcase: INSITE
INSITE stands for the International Network of Students Investigating Technology for Education. This project is the brain-child of Dr. Timothy J. Newby, an instructor in the college of Education here at Purdue University. As a selected project for one of the TLT Instructional Grants, Dr. Newby worked with our student developers Mike Chaten and Bryan [...]
Making Your Final (Web 2.0) Exit
It had to happen. Fads usually encounter a negative bounce once they begin to mature, and the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is the ultimate nose-thumbing to all the social media hysteria. According to the company web site, “This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely [...]
Social Language Learning with Livemocha
Over 4 million registered members have taken Livemocha.com for a test drive. Livemocha is a social language learning web site that offers tools similar to the popular Rosetta Stone language learning system. Livemocha combines language learning tools with the power of social media communication. Featuring as many as 36 different languages and over 160 hours [...]
Instructional Technology Grants Showcase: Cropview
CROPVIEW stands for Comprehensive Resources for Observing Plants in a Visual Interactive Enhanced Window.
Microsoft Office Online
Over the past week, Microsoft has slowly rolled out Beta access to the new Office Online suite to a select number of Windows Live SkyDrive users. This new web application suite can be seen as a direct competitor to Google Docs & the Zoho Office Suite, and an evolution of their Office Live workspace.
Signals: Early Intervention for Student Success
A new web-based application, developed at Purdue, for use in Blackboard This Fall, 12 large-enrollment classes — about 10,000 students at Purdue University – West Lafayette, will use Signals, a new web-based application developed at Purdue. Helping students succeed academically is the goal of every instructor, advisor, and staff member at Purdue University. Signals provides [...]