Free e-books pdf downloads

May 30, 2008 10 Comments by Hiran

Internet contains free knowledge. Internet Archives is one such site. Some of the free pdf articles in the site includes: How to be creative?, How to become the best in the world?, 100 Ways to Kill a Concept: Why Most Ideas Get Shot Down CustomGuide has released some Quick Reference Guides for Microsoft, Mac and [...]

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Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics – web sites for students

Jul 22, 2007 4 Comments by Hiran

Biology Human Genome Poster, chormosme viewer and tutorials Order free Human Genome poster. Online chormosome viewer is also available here. This site also contains a collection of guides and tutorials designed to help students and other novice users. Biology Interactive Animations A great Biology link page for students. Links to great and simple animations showing [...]

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Use of Web 2.0 sites for eLearning

Jul 16, 2007 2 Comments by Hiran

This post provides an introduction to Web 2.0 to students and teachers who are not too sure of what it is all about. This discusses How and why web 2.0 is different to traditional web?, What are the traditional and new approaches to elearning? and How can you start a blog, wiki, photosharing, social networking [...]

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Use of Web tools for teaching: blogs, wikis, podcasting and other web 2.0 tools

May 20, 2007 No Comments

The web is, and always has been, an exciting place for education in terms of the possibilities it offers for research and collaboration. Now, it is even more exciting, with the appearance and development of new tools which have become collectively known as Web 2.0. Dr Hiran Amrasekera delivered a presenation on this subject on [...]

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