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Promote and participate in Open Education Week 2014. " Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events and use of all resources are free and open to everyone" (excerpt from the website). Read more...

Prologue For those who have been following trends in higher education, the term MOOCs (pronunciation: muk) is not foreign anymore but for some people it is still kind of clouded in mystery. A simple google search using ‘MOOC’ as a keyword turned up 2.4 million hits and when searched using the full acronym ‘Massive Open Online Courses’ it gave a massive 24 million hits! Mind-boggling indeed! If the number of hits can be used as a simple measure of popularity then perhaps we can surmise that MOOCs is a phenomenon that have a potential to disrupt the education world and will bring about significant impact on achieving “ Education for All ” movement of the United Nation. This article is my attempt to deciphering and demystifying MOOCs. Note that this is my personal view on MOOCs (not that of USM or CDAE) and I must say that I’m inclined towards supporting it because I liked its underlying philosophy. That said, I'm not a MOOCs cheerleader or its fan boy — I keep an open mind on this ev...

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In no time? Well, that's exaggeration...but really, there are so many tools now available to educators to do useful things with very little learning curve. Currently there are several web-based tools that allow anyone to build any topic of interest -- Scoop.it! , Pinterest , etc. These tools can be use for aggregating or curating content. The new kids-on-the block are Edcanvas & Storify . I particularly like Storify . It's so easy to use -- no brainer! Storify has two parts -- the blank canvas on the left hand side and the search tools on the right hand side. There is Google search to search the web, You Tube, Flickr, or other social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, SoundCloud , etc. Basically you start with a blank canvas. Just search using the various built-in search tools, pick the relevant item, and drag it to the main area on the left. As its name implies, Storify allows you to build a 'story', basically a compilation of articles from the huge inter...

Hi folks! Here's an exciting FREE new iPad app, Flowboard -- similar to Tactilize but the biggest advantage is you can have multiple 'screens' (or slides in PPT lingo, cards in Tactilize). Screen can be linked non-linearly. The same can be done for any object on the screen. You can use Flowboard to prepare a presentation on the iPad. Just flip to move to the next screen. With creativity you can use this app in many ways. For example, I use Flowboard to prepare a Glossary. This is then linked to my Storify. A unique combination of tools to produce learning content. Have a look.  --First the Flowboard:  http://flowboard.com/s/1fwn/ SUPERSATURATION --This is linked to my topic on 'Crystallization in Foods' in Storify. Look for the hyperlink word 'supersaturation'. https://storify.com/ProfKarim/ crystallization-in-foods -- The same content in my Flowboard prepared in Tactilize. http://tactilize.com/ profkarim/cards/51032 I hope you'll find this useful.

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Example 1: Screencast using Movenote Example 2: Screencast using Screen_O-Matic Example 3: Screencast using Present.me I have benefited a lot from following people on Twitter. Recently I spotted a twit by Robin Good on using Movenote and present.me to produce a quick and simple screencasting. I followed the link to his Scoop.it! page . I watched his sample presentation and I thought, ah...I can try this! Both Movenote and present.me are free, very easy to use and the quality is reasonably good (but judge for yourself). Both programs have limited features compared to the more established Screen-O-Matic but I guess it's quite sufficient. I would add these to my selection of free screencasting program to present my PowerPoint or Keynote. I have been using mostly Screenr for screencasting and recently I use Screen-O-Matic (for longer screencast up to 15 min). Unlike Screenr, though, Screen-O-Matic and Movenote allow you to capture your face using a webcam. I'm not particularly ...