Veodia - Free Trial of the Veodia Widget

Last night Veodia released a new version of its video platform for business.
In addition to 'enterprise' features, such as SSO, security, reports and integration to leading collaboration, sales, training and other systems, Veodia also offers a free trial of it 'Veodia Widget'.
Now you can register to the Veodia service and start uploading and recording high quality videos directly into the 'cloud'.

We've added demos to the Veodia site, showing video usage in business context, for example:
Sales, eLearning and collaboration.



In addition. Now you can register and try the Widget for free.
We added the ability to share the video by direct link or by an embed code.
I started using it to add video to my Twitter messages.

Link to video page

This is very exciting and I am very proud of the Veodia team.

Give it a try, use video for your business and send me your feedback.

E.T.

Competitive Learning: tutpup.com

Based on the good feedback I received on the 'Do the Math' post , I decided to recommend another great website.

http://tutpup.com focuses on Maths Game and Word Game Questions and include several levels.

The site has a very clean design, it is fun and easy to use.

And for the more competitive kids, it allow to play games and to compete with other kids, win awards and collect virtual prices.

The registration is optional and safe.

No real names, just cool nicknames...
(I dare you challenge Silver Bat 468...)

Have fun,

E.T.

Chatting with Jay Cross on informal learning and the un-book

Today I had the pleasure of meeting Jay Cross in person, after noticing him in SUN Learning Exchange the other day.

We shared some stories and had some laughs.

We shares some notes with a Veodia team by creating a short video note on our internal wiki.



We talked about the upcoming Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 event.



Jay also shared some ideas about the un-book and other project he is working on.

The unbook

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: books book)

Jay's un-book preview:

I like Jay's ability to articulate the future in a pragmatic way.

For additional info about Jay, go to his Internet Time Blog.

View the video:




E.T.

SUN Learning Exchange

It was great to see how my friend Jay Cross already wrote on the SUN Learning Exchange.





http://slx.sun.com/

I am proud that Veodia is enabling SUN's informal learning initiatives through the SUN Learning Exchanges. SUN employees uses Veodia to record and share videos of critical information needed to improve knowledge transfer and collaboration, allowing them access to the right information at the right time.

More information in the press release.

E.T.

Babylon 7

Working in a multi-culture environment has its challenges, which 'understanding' other languages is one of the major ones...

:-)

Knowing a 'language' is not as 'understanding' it.

I am using Babylon for many years now. It not just offers text translation in 17 languages and Wikipedia results in 13 languages, all in a single click, but also allow you to create your own dictionaries and helps you to understand phrases.

For example, there are many dictionaries about SAP terms, and in the past I was using it to package context-sensitive help and learning content.

Babylon just released a new great version - lucky # 7.



Some key features:

• Single Click Activation - Simple and intuitive
• Full text translation in a single click
• Spell check for Hotmail, Gmail, Blogs...
• Smart Dictionary - Get translations to and from any language
• Wikipedia content in a single click
• Babylon Premium Content- results from Oxford, Britannica, and other leading publishers in a single click
• Auto Completion

I do wish they will develop a Mac version soon...

E.T.


Technorati Tags: Babylon, eLearning, SAP

Classroom 2.0

As part of the office 2.0 conference, I am/was attending the Classroom 2.0 session.

Speakers

• Steve Hargadon (Moderator), Editor, Classroom 2.0
• Kyle Brumbaugh, Technology Coordinator, San Mateo Union High School District
• Guillaume Cohen, Chief Executive Officer, Veodia
• Steve Dembo, Online Community Manager, Discovery Communications
• Adam Frey, Founder, Tangient
• Anastasia Goodstein, Editor, Ypulse
• Karen Greenwood Henke, Founder, Nimble Press
• Rushton Hurley, Founder, Next Vista for Learning
• Sylvia Martinez, President, Generation YES

The discussion was around the role of educators and the usage of 'web 2.0' tools by schools.

Some (interesting) comments by the panel:

• The role of teachers is to teach students how to find information, but most important, how to validate the information.
• There is more adoption of 'Web 2.0' technology and tools by individual educators, than the universities and schools. The IT organization are still resisting...
• 25% of education traffic on the Internet goes to wikipedia.
• The challenge is to keep students engage, or they will find "black market education" resources and learn from them. 'Free' resources with content which is not consider to be updated or the truth. (...truth and history are written by the winners...)
  
• Content creation helps students to improve their understanding of the domain they focus on.
• We need to stop blocking the students from using the learning tools or their choice, while learning in the schools.
  
• The teachers may feel intimidated by 'losing' their role as the single source of knowledge and authority.
• Classrooms are the places where students learn that they can do more than they thought can/want to do. Educators role is the coach and push students to excel.
  

As I see it, we had few discussions in parallel:
There are issues and ideas around content generation (quality, relevancy, tools, etc.), knowledge management (knowledge find-ability, clustering) and education administration (running schools and more).

There is a wide agreement that Web 2.0 'capabilities' do change the education domain.
Applying the relevant tools to the relevant tasks is necessary (dauh...).
The real challenge is to match the content development to the collaborative space while the school is not blocking it... and them to scale it beyond that school to include additional schools in the state/country and globally.

E.T.

Technorati Tags: Office 2.0, eLearning, Event, Web 2.0