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Good introduction to semantic web and innovative uses of social media for public relations, marketing and business development

Community directory of web 2.0 tools, apps and services

Tiki-Toci- an esthetically pleasing web-based timeline tool. Students can create interactive multimedia timelines using images, text and videos that are easy to embed.

Free tool for converting web pages to PDF - works with any browser

BookmarkQ - lets you link to a specific part of a web page.  

"Drchrono is an EHR (electronic health record) app for the iPad. It allows doctors to complete everyday tasks and access information without having to turn to paper records. The information gathered and accessed through the app is also available from any web browser, iPhone or Android device, since the app syncs with the Drchrono web-based healthcare platform."

Does FERPA ban schools from allowing students to post their schoolwork on the open Web? Yesterday, Georgia Tech deleted all student history and participation from the school's "Swikis," the wikis that students use for their coursework. Georgia Tech has been using wikis for this purpose since 1997, pioneering the usage of the collaborative tools for undergraduate education. One of the features of the school's wikis was that they allowed for cross-course and cross-semester communication. You could, should you choose, remain in a wiki for a class you'd taken previously, for example.

Basic videos to introduce common Web2.0 tools

Celly is a wonderful free site for using mobile phones/text messaging in the classroom (found out about from a member of my PLN on Twitter). There is a lot to like about using Celly such as: creating a chat, alerting, and even using a curator to approve messages before they get posted (ideal for education). Also, it's ideal for taking notes, interacting w/ web (no phone is actually needed), etc etc.

Gallaudet University did a review of web conferencing tools - good reference document

"his site is for a three-session faculty development event supported by the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning at Gustavus Adolphus College. The purpose of these sessions is to explore old and new ways of finding information, both web and library-based, as well as to discuss classroom applications, the state of publishing, open access, copyright, and more."

A good "free" support source that we should link to on our web site.

student developed social networking site

Interesting article on Google Sidewiki

For journalism workshop

"Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers"

Educause monthly newsletter - i finally found the web link for it - they hide it well! Big news - Richard Katz (has LAS ties to BU via Paul Hanson) is leaving Educause

Embed Plus is a new and innovative way to edit YouTube videos. This allows users to cut/crop video, add chapters, annotate, slow motion, looping, and real-time reactions. It's live having DVD controls on a YouTube video.