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a handful of colleges have begun using similar recommendation systems to help students pick their courses-a step that could change GPA's and career paths.

these things are important to me on a recreational online forum (I like to help people, I like to receive a reward) Aren't some the same for online discussion groups?

The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. This is the LearningSpace, where you'll find hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum. Study independently at your own pace or join a group and use the free learning tools to work with others.

Some people call it Journalism 2.0 when hundreds of citizen journalists give us the latest on the state of the neighborhood. 

Even in a world where Creative Commons exists, it always seems like there is not enough quality royalty-free material for us in the multimedia field. Thankfully, there are several places out on the Internet that hear the cries of every starving artist.

Easily caption and translate your videos, with help from your viewers.

Universal Subtitles gives individuals, communities, and larger organizations the power to overcome accessibility and language barriers for online video. The tools are free and open source and make the work of subtitling and translating video simpler, more appealing, and, most of all, more collaborative.The benefits of captioning and subtitling are immense:Captions make videos accessible for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearingTranslations make it possible for all of us to watch video in languages that we don't speakVideo creators get: better SEO, more views, access to a far bigger (potentially multilingual and global) audience, accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing viewers, and moreUniversal Subtitles is composed of three main parts:A subtitle creation and viewing tool (aka the widget)A collaborative subtitling websiteAn open protocol for subtitle search/delivery

Even better, the data visualisation tools that can manipulate and present that information are getting easier to use and available to anyone. And it is in the social and political aspects of data visualisation that its real value emerges. "If you make these tools and data available to a broader range of people you are just going to get better ideas," said Dr Austwick.

A Complete How-To for Creating Curriculum Sites and Student Portfolios using Google's Tools!

The new Google service, announced last week, is similar in many ways to Facebook. It provides a way to share updates, photos, and recommendations with friends and colleagues. One key difference is that Google Plus makes it easier to share information with isolated subgroups of contacts, rather than sending all updates to every online "friend."

Welcome to the Desmos Calculator! Use this calculator for graphing, for calculating, for sharing, for creating. Look on the right for help or inspiration. 

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

5 Free Web 2.0 Brainstorming Tools (from @enuffer) Bubbl.us Mindomo.com Wisemapping.com Mindmeister.com Mind42.com

How I used twitter to do something: find a kidney, save a bookstore, etc

"If you are a teacher interested in checking your students' work for copied material, you can use the list below where you can find the Top 10 FREE Plagiarism Detection Tools for Teachers."

Getting Started with Google Docs Purpose Understand how to use Google Docs in the classroom to create, share, collaborate and publish works. In this tutorial sheet you will learn how to: Create a Google Account Create a New Document Save a New Document Rename a New Document Upload an Existing Document Basic Editing Tagging a Document Collaborating and Sharing a Document Revise and Add Comments to a Document Publishing a Document Copying a Document

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