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Here are 10 tips for designing better infographics (click the image examples to go to their original sites):1) Be Concise: 

Convert Microsoft Office, Open Office, Lotus, images, web pages and other formats to PDF. This free PDF converter and PDF creator is quick and reliable. Example: you need to convert a Microsoft Word document to PDF document. Use the "Browse" button to locate the Word file on your computer, select it and click the "Convert Your File" button. Done!

DotSub is mostly for collaboratively translating excellent videos into multiple languages, but the end result is that you get subtitled videos!  Here's an example - a collection of the "in plain English" videos embedded into this wiki page: https://confluence.delhi.edu/x/IwBiB Each one has a dropdown where you can select the subtitling language to display:Note that not all languages for each video are complete. It shows the percentage that is complete next to each language in the dropdown. Then, if you know a certain language, you can contribute by adding subtitles to a portion of the video... Very cool site!

opensource LMS. Advantages touted are under-whelming: Open ed resources,for example, are avilalble thru any LMS. 

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These modules offer ways of teaching quantitative reasoning and examples of their use.

Map of ADP participants. Nice example of a simple googlemap.

The driving force behind the Web 2.0 revolution is a spirit of intellectual philanthropy and collective intelligence that is made possible by new technologies for communication, collaboration and information management.  One of the best examples of collective intelligence in action are the wide range of social bookmarking applications that have been embraced in recent years.

If you are a complete novice and have no short-term plan to learn how to code, it may still be worth your time to find out about what it takes to gather data by scraping web sites -- so you know what you're asking for if you end up hiring someone to do the technical work for you. How to get data from a PDF, for example

How do I properly attribute a Creative Commons licensed work? no specific examples

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n a lot of ways, millions of users have found Twitter as a useful tool. Take journalists, for example. According to a recent survey, 37 percent of journalists said they are on Twitter. It's no longer a small tech company that is troubled by servers being down (keeping fingers crossed). Now your non-techie friends are using it. It's referenced in commercials. It's mainstream.

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Based upon proven research and informed by practical experience, this Blended Learning Toolkit will offer guidance, examples, professional development, and other resources to help you prepare your own blended learning courses and programs.

When to use maps, when not. full post is worth a read, chock-full of examples.

Social media technologies and their ease of use make them attractive channels of communication. However, these tools also can open the possibility of unintended consequences. To enhance the effective use of these technologies, these guidelines draw upon examples of best practices from various institutions to outline the most appropriate use of social media. Due to the rapid changes in technology, this guideline may be reviewed and updated as needed.

This course site is set up to show how Canvas can leverage outworld blogs--real world blogs owned by learners.