I had the opportunity to have a discussion with several in-service teachers when I was conducting a research in a secondary school for the last couple of weeks. One question that I asked them was "What are the things that you could have done to make your teaching or lesson more effective and engaging?". Not surprisingly, all teachers mentioned the use of various instructional technologie... more.

If you're an educator looking for a free online system that offer tools to create your very own collaborative online environments, then you should look at RCampus. RCampus is a collaborative environment by Reazon Systems, Inc that is a one-stop shop for everything school related.  RCampus utilizes Open Education Management system that makes it easy to build personal and group websites, manage... more.

When we talk about open source, normally we will think of computer applications that comes with the tag "freeware" or "open development". With the recent development in the Public Domain and Free Culture Movement initiatives, more and more open access materials are made available to the world. While it's available for free, most materials are licensed under Creative Commons, in... more.

It was back in 2003 when I placed myself in the open-source community. As a web developer myself, I find Open Source concept intriguing and suits the current open society. Not only that it saves a lot of money (from buying commercial software), it also promotes constant development of a software without the limits of a specific software company or entity. Practically anyone (with programming knowl... more.

The rapid development in Web 2.0 has seen a bombardment of various social networking sites like Facebook, Friendster and MySpace. The latest to become popular in Malaysia is Ning.com , launched in 2005. Co-founded by the former creator of Netscape, "Ning" comes from the chinese word for "peace". A great name for a Web 2.0 company as it's simple to remember and short for a domai... more.