"students are directed to unpack their own selfies for signifiers of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and other identity markers, and to write a thesis-driven essay based on this analysis"

"The goal of a blended approach is to join the best bits of face-to-face and online instruction. Classroom time can be used more effectively, for instance to cover challenging concepts or to address questions students may have on a current topic. Meanwhile, the online portion of the course can provide learners with multimedia-rich content at any time of day, accessed from college computer labs, on the move or at home, providing flexibility and convenience for learners."

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial - a series of five courses on how to use QGIS 2.8, all available under CCBY 3.0

"Born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing that's as easy as blogging." Seems to have some interesting possibilities for innovative publications and visualisations.

Project management system, free for small teams... I use it, at home and at work.

When considering the impact of your tweets, it is useful to know when your followers are online. This (freemium) tool helps with that!

"Stock up some great tweets and have them automatically shared throughout the day."

"What if we divided screen time into three categories: creative, interactive, and passive, then further divided our best content by skill-building, educational, and entertainment?"

"A commonplace book is a central resource or depository for ideas, quotes, anecdotes, observations and information you come across during your life and didactic pursuits."

information overload in historical context - a database containing 4358 entries on 93 themes all revolving around how we organise and process ever-expanding reams of information.

Fully searchable, open access digital editions of selected Records of Early English Drama. With some interesting methodological reflections.

with short comments and "recommended for" suggestions.

"Today's schools are focusing on boosting kids' technological proficiency and warning them about the perils of the web. But something critical is missing from this education."