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The International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (IJVPLE) provides readers with comprehensive coverage of developments in learning technologies for an international readership of educators, technologists and trainers. The journal is a primary source for academics, professionals, corporate trainers and policy makers in information and communication technologies. The journal publishes high quality contributions (papers, book reviews) on a range of fields associated with Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), Social Networking Sites (SNS), Personalized Learning Environments (PLE), and 3D virtual worlds, including for example Second Life (SL). Articles published in the journal cover education and training, concentrating on the theory, application, and development of learning technologies. There is a particular interest in the application of new and emerging information and communication technologies in education and training.

Geneio is a service that installs on your computer and analyzes your current web history to determine content that interests you. A few minutes after installing, it determines your preferences and generates a homepage which is tailored to your interests. The thing I like about Geneio is that you do not need to spend any time 'training' it. Once you install it, it uses your past web history to determine the types of articles and topics that you are already interested in, and I've found it to be fairly accurate.

Penzu: a free online diary and personal journal that is focused on privacy. Students can keep their thoughts / reflections and ideas to themselves and share only if they want to.

"the success of journalism's future can only be assured to the extent that each and every person in this room helps generate the excitement, the passion, and the creativity to make it so."

About Digital Learning Now! (Jeb Bush's thing) Digital Learning Now! is a national campaign to advance policies that will create a high quality digital learning environment to better prepare students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and careers. Digital Learning Now! is building support for the 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning, which provides a roadmap for reform for lawmakers and policymakers to integrate digital learning into education. Establishing the Roadmap for Reform The Digital Learning Council was convened in 2010 to define the policies that will integrate current and future technological innovations into public education. The Digital Learning Council united a diverse group of more than 100 leaders from education, government, philanthropy, business, technology, and think tanks to develop the roadmap of reform for local, state and federal lawmakers and policymakers. Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida 1999 - 2007, and Bob Wise, former Governor of West Virginia 2001 - 2005, serve as co-chairmen. The Digital Learning Council covered a wide range of topics, including: student eligibility for digital learning, access to high quality digital content and instruction, customization and personalization of education such as blended learning, funding models, assessments and accountability. The 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning was released at the 2010 Excellence in Action National Summit on Education Reform in Washington, D.C.

sign up with (favorite color) (favorite animal) + choose an available number. Then choose a type of game to play: Maths 101, Maths Mix, Algebra, Spelling, or Times Tables. From within those categories, select a difficulty level. Then a competitor (a real person) will select to be your opponent... and you RACE to see who wins! Get badges and level up as you go.

ShuffleBrain is building smart games for a connected world. We're inspired by the recent explosion of Brain Games, and passionate about creating personalized, lightweight, socially connected games that keep you sharp.

twitrratr: distinguish between negative and positive tweets (sort of) on a person, brand, product, topic, etc.

only works on the iPhone and Android platform, but once you start using it you will understand why it is such a great product. Once you import your RSS feeds from Google Reader, and your Twitter and Facebook accounts, My6Sense begins analyzing how your read items and will start to give you personalized relevant results. Rather than go based on what you think you are interested in, My6Sense actually looks at what you click on - they have found that sometimes the two don't exactly match up. In this way they can determine what you are really interested in rather than what you think you are interested in.

this discussion by MIT's Henry Jenkins is a fabulous overview of the role Social Media played in the 2008 Presidential Campaign (and, by extrapolation) and how these technologies are shaping cultural and personal time. Very good!

A directory of companies and contact info to talk QUICKLY to a real person

personalized learning tool

great blog by Kevin Jarrett on EdTech Matters

Transformations in writing - study at stanford on new literacies

OWP / National Center: Transformations in writing - study at stanford on new literacies

SPHERit: a guidance tool encouraging reflection using graphical representation of personally relevent data

Gary's Social Media Count

The classroom of 2020: the model of the traditional classroom is eroding

Springpad (remember, act, share): like Evernote - a service to put everything in the cloud - this application lets you quickly and easily save ideas and info that you come across everyday. They enhance what you upload with a link and then you access it from the web or your phone.