EduTek n Social Media Advisor

My ebook / paperpack @ Amazon

Hi viewers,

 

I just want to share this good news with you. I had till now made my ebook available in the form of PDF.

But now I've made it available on Amazon Kindle and also as paperback.

Title of the book : Comcept Mapping 4 Concepts of Nobel Prize in Physics : Superconductors & Related Achievements

 

For Indian viewers, Access the ebook here.

For global audience, click here.

 

For paperback version, click here.

Develop Online Courses Using Edynco

Today I came across an interesting tool ‘Edynco’ that helps you create ‘learning maps’ that in turn enables you to develop online courses.

Edynco is cloud based and hence the learning maps you’ve created from your browser can be accessed by your students using any device like iPad, iPhone or any other mobile device. You can publish your learning maps through your website or blog, LMS or on mobile devices.

It is integrated with special tools such as micro lecture recorder, quiz creator.

It also enables you to attach learning objects like video, quiz, micro lecture, image, weblink etc

A visit to their website will enable you to explore various features of Edynco.

BeHere App Acts as Teacher Using iBeacon

Let me just begin the article by saying what is iBeacon and then go on to mention the applications of it in Education.

According to Wikipedia, ‘iBeacon is the Apple Trademark for an indoor positioning system that Apple Inc. calls "a new class of low-powered, low-cost transmitters that can notify nearby iOS 7 devices of their presence." They can also be used by the Android operating system (limited to central-only). The technology enables an iOS device or other hardware to send push notifications to iOS devices in close proximity’

Next we’ll see how to get beacons! You can get beacons from

• Estimote
• Beekn
• You can also turn any of your Bluetooth 4.0 iPhone or iPad as a beacon with the free Beecon app from the App Store.

Now that you’ve realized, it is not difficult to get beacon and some iOS or Android devices, let us explore how it can be used in education.

 Using iBeacon transmitters, a new BeHere App,  automatically takes attendance as students enter the classroom, provided the students have installed the app in their compatible iOS devices. This enables the teacher to manage help requests from students and always be up-to-date with their progress.

You can watch the promo clip given below.

BeHere from Beelieve on Vimeo.

The following slideshow suggests 5 learning concepts by ‘LearnerLab’ that can be explored by educationists.

iBeacons - five learning concepts from LearnerLab

Hope you’ll explore the usage of beacon and come out with interesting applications!

Video of my presentation ’Social Media in Education’ at EdTech Summit

I had already blogged about my participation in EdTech Summit, New Delhi as Expert Speaker in Social Media in Education as ‘Social Media in Education @ Education Tech Summit’. I had also blogged about the post event report of the Summit  as ‘Post Event Report of Education Tech Summit’.

 You can now view my actual presentation through this video.

Do share your feedback in the comment section.

CFHE12 Week 2 Activities through CMap

The resources and webinars of week 2 of CFHE12 is presented in the form of concept map. Click the CMap to view it clearly. The actual concept map with links cna be viewed at

Views - CmapTools/Shared CMaps in Places/IHMC Public
CMaps/cfhe12

My past blog posts related to CFHE12 are:

Learning Activity for 1st Week @ CFHE12

Activities of 1st week of EdFuture, CFHE12 through CMap 

1st Week @ EdFuture, CFHE12 

Current /Future State of Higher Education : CFHE12

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activities of 1st week of EdFuture, CFHE12 through CMap

I’ve expressed the activities of 1^st Week of EdFuture CFHE12 through CMap and have saved the CMap in CMap server so that it can be viewed by participants of this program.

 The path for accessing the CMap is :

Views - CmapTools/Shared CMaps in Places/IHMC Public CMaps/cfhe12

You may have to download the IHMC software to access the above path.

IHMC CMap software can be downloaded by clicking here.

The static image of the CMap I have developed is given below: Click the CMap to view it clearly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quixey: A Functional Search Engine

We are all familiar with standard search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. They would let you find information in the form of text, image, video et al.

But recently I came across Quixey, (still in beta stage) a functional search engine quite different from others. We use applications in our everyday life.  We use them in browser, phone, software and in social networks. Quixey helps you find applications to do what you want on an ever-growing number of platforms.

Log into Quixey and just explore the search engine. If you’ve not already registered, just request for an invite code and explore it.

The following screenshot shows the applications that are suggested to me for ‘Mind Map’

Not only am I shown various applications for Mind Map but for various devices too!

You just type the right keyword for the application you require, Quixey just presents the results along with price details if any.

Quixey is really is a boon to professionals who use applications to present their ideas /concepts. 

 

Curriculum Development

 

With reference to my blog post titled ‘Curriculum Designing and Evaluation for Autonomous Colleges’ the presentations I used can be accessed by clicking the following topics:

1. Concept Map as the Basis for Curriculum Development
2. Curriculum Development Models