Low Threshold Applications
Created By: midonz
Last Modified: 12/09/05
Link: Wired News Article about Teen Internet Usage
Summary: If you're designing a website aimed at teenagers, you'd better not make the text too small. That's not because teens have bad eyes, but because teenagers tend to lean back in their chairs when they're at their computers.
Link: Journal of Educational Technology and Society
Summary: Published by the International Forum of Educational Technology & Society. An IEEE endorsed publication
Link: How to Make Your Own Annotated Googlemap
Summary: Instructions for building a Google map with your custom annotations
Link: I-Storm
Summary: I-Storm is collaboration software for the Mac that lets users work, talk, and think together. With iStorm, a user can open up a document, and immediately start brainstorming it with other collaborators over a network. Works with PDF. Inline TeX editor and calculator.
Link: Weblogs in Higher Ed
Summary: This blog / weblog is devoted to understanding the best pedagogical and other uses of weblogs and wikis in higher education
The purpose of this pack is to gather resources about instructional technology. I'll be adding links to my most used bookmarks, to feeds, uploading brainstorming notes about how to use technology for instruction or different projects that are possible. I'm hoping that others add to the pack with thoughtful notes, resources, etc.
Link: Low Threshold Applications
Summary: Low Threshold-- an application of technology that is reliable, accessible, easy to learn, non-intimidating and (incrementally) inexpensive.
