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SOPHIE is an open source tool maintained by USC that allows for creating and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Sophie authors can easily combine a variety of media - text, images, video and audio into a sophisticated multimedia work.

A free, open-source video editing tools for Windows

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.

"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."

Growing interest in online courses - particularly community colleges that reach out to non traditional students

This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial Generation

FileStork makes it incredibly simple for Dropbox users to request files from people on either a one-time or more open-ended basis.

Watch2gether is a great site for watching YouTube videos w/ others. This site allows users to discuss YouTube videos via a text chat that opens up on the right side of the window.

About a company committed to a financially sustainable model for ope source textbooks

"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"