June 22, 2011
The fresh web service called Smarterer aims to shake our inertia about learning skills and make smarter workers out of us all. Smarterer pits us against the technology, digital, and social tools we use every day and tells us if we are able or inept with them.
May 9, 2011
Surprisingly, travel quizzes aren’t that many on the web or it could be that Google Search failed me when I went ‘travelling’ for travel quizzes. Though the ones I found made me realize that there’s a big leap between one’s geographical IQ and travel IQ. Is that your story too? Take these seven travel quizzes and find out if you know your Timbuktu from Shangri-La.
April 4, 2011
With all the bad press Facebook gets these days, it’s nice to be able to preview one of the social behemoth’s newest features without worrying too much about the usual privacy and data protection implications. Facebook Questions is the company’s attempt at a service that somewhat resembles Yahoo! Answers, only it works a bit more socially between you and your friends.
February 16, 2011
Small change, small potatoes, or something of little importance: that’s how “˜trivia’ is defined in the dictionary. But when you take any trivia game and see it eating up time, then the dictionary meaning doesn’t hold much water. Take music trivia for instance. You really won’t be invited to the fan party if you don’t [...]
January 25, 2011
Do we tune up our brain as frequently as we do our cars? The most wonderful organ ever patented by God is left on its own in the skull as we go on with the chores of life. The jury is still out on whether brain games and brain exercises can really make you “˜smarter’. The [...]
November 30, 2010
People often wonder why Microsoft Powerpoint costs so much. After all, you can only create simple, linear ‘presentations’ with it. Wrong. Microsoft Powerpoint is an immensely powerful suite, and can be used for much more than straightforward presentations. It can be used to create website mockups, and even interactive learning tools. We’ll explore one example [...]
October 7, 2010
Theoretically, websites (and blogs) are the perfect tools for global education: they are extremely cheap to build and to maintain (compared to real schools), supportive to collaborative teaching and learning, highly customizable, and easily accessible from all over the world. But in reality, things are not as simple as they are on paper. There are [...]
March 16, 2010
What is the longest movie ever made? Got the answer? Well, I will put the answer at the end of this article but I hope you got the point behind the quiz. If you get it correct, you have the taste for trivia that probably goes with your taste for good movies. The word “˜trivia’, [...]
February 18, 2010
Topics like “Are you smarter than Paris Hilton?”, “Is he (or she) the right one for you?”, “What will my baby look like?”, and “What Pokemon are you?”, are just a few examples of quizzes that you will find on the pages of magazines. There’s a good reason why these quizzes have survived on those [...]
February 16, 2010
Currently I’m involved in a small project of creating a website for distance learning. Having tinkered with WordPress for a while, I don’t have any second thoughts in deciding what the platform of the site should be. WordPress is already famous for its flexibility. With the right theme and plugins, you can turn a WordPress [...]
