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usability and design from the perspective of service. Very relevant to educators and edtech people in particular!

Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium, a joint Symposium of Sloan Consortium and MERLOT with MoodleMoot, is designed to bring together individuals interested in the technological aspects of online learning. The symposium, focusing on the technologies that drive online learning effectiveness, will continue to highlight research, applications, and best practices of important emerging technological tools. Experts, intermediate users and novices are welcome to participate in Symposium activities that will include face-to-face and virtual components. Symposium tracks highlight and demonstrate research, application and best practices of important emerging technological tools related to social networking, assessment, open educational resources, new media and support services. The Symposium is brought to you by the partnership of the Sloan Consortium, MERLOT, and MoodleMoot.

Snip.ly is a URL-shortening service that also allows you to include snippets, or summaries, of the article you are linking too.

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.

Mixed ink: a collaborative writing tool that touts itself as a "fun, democratic, and elegant way for people to weave their ideas together" Their service is free.

Paul's e-learning resources: links to free online services that allow you to provide learning opps to students.

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.

Integrative, team-based, competitive business simulationa for undergrad, MBA, and EMBA courses and for corporate ExecEd programs. 19 customizable enterprise management, marketing, services, and supply chain management simulations;

Previously known as Fauxto, Splashup is also a free online tool for enhancing the photos. It is browser friendly and supports various photosharing services as Picasa, Flickr, and Facebook. Splashup has a built up of various photo editing tools such as lasso, blur, brush fill, crop, etc. Multiple windows are allowed which gives it an edge above the rest. Beside, also provides us Splashup Light - a free offline photo editor, works perfectly on our desktop as well as on your mobile PCs.

loads of special effects, a range of nice fonts, and numerous shapes. It enables red eye reduction and also edits the exposure which are the most common problems faced by the photographers. It is fast and works well on different platforms as Mac, Windows and Linux. One of the most interesting features of Picnik is the support of the photosharing sites and the social networking sites. Registration in Picnik is not mandatory. It is required for some special services only. You are going to spoil your day if you forget your password because it does not have the 'Forgot your password' option to retrieve your password.

Thinkwell: online service provider

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YouSendIt: send & receive large files

Educator's Reference Desk: resources & services - lesson plans, q&a, online ed portal