I am
based in the
University of Patras, Greece where I develop e-learning courses for the
university community in the field of facilities
management. Our university is currently running
eclass LMS based on claroline.
Furthermore, I am vice director of studies in
IEK
Vergi, private college ().
There we deploy a full asynchronous e-learning
support of all courses.
Moreover, I subscribe to the open source notion of
education. As a result of this, I've setup and run
www.iedu.gr, an open e-learning community for
e-learning course builders & providers.
Also,
I am a certified instructor at the
National Centre
for Public Administration and Local Government, where I teach among others in "train the e-trainer"
seminars. my edublog will appear
shortly on blog.edu.gr.
Stylianos's Top 10 Tools as at
1 February 2008
Google
Reader - Effective, free tool for rss feeds. My
personalised news kiosk.
Moodle -
One of the best overall platforms for asynchronous
e-learning. Free, open-source with great add-ons
developed in a global community. Backbone of most of
my e-learning projects.
YouTube
Catcher - Invaluable tool for keeping off-line
copies of videos. Particulary useful in teaching
instances where internet connection is unavailable
or problematic.
dotsub.com
- Very useful tool for a country such as Greece.
Adding subtitles to videos makes them understandable
to a much broader audience. A must when a video is
intended for high school students for example. Also
useful for foreign language learning students.
Slideshare
- The idea of sharing in life is not just superb, it
is a pointer to the solution of many problems in all
levels. Identifying the existential importance of
our relations within societies helps us overcome
individualism and develop our humanity.
Slideshare as a tool is a perfect example of
technology-driven enabler in global scale. Moreover,
slideshare is a source of great material, thanks to
their open-minded contributors. I've spent hours
discovering fascinating presentations in various
subjects.
Wikispaces
- Available power of wiki-freedom. Use it wisely!
Del.icio.us
- Information fishing stick (or rather net?) in the
internet ocean. Very efficient and simple social
bookmarking tool with a must-have firefox plug-in.
Elluminate
- Stable, efficient, feature rich web-conferencing
tool for business. I'd love to have the interface in
my local language though.
Skype - Serious phone alternative + IM tool +
collaboration add-ons = efficiency
Wordpress
- One of the best free, open-source blog platform
choices.
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