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Startl Will: # Establish vision. Define and diffuse characteristics of effective, catalytic learnercentered products. # Develop talent. Scout and support innovators creating or wanting to create learnercentered products. # Accelerate products. Advance products to sellable, scalable, and sustainable state for market. # Position entities. Help connect start-ups to resources, investors, and partners for product promotion and distribution to market. # Evaluate performance. Evaluate the contributions that Startl network products have on user centered learning and will aggregate, analyze and freely distribute research on user centered learning back to the education market.

User Design blog of Joshua Porter: user experience design pointers, tutorials, ideas

A philosophy of technology re-alignment (as opposed to complete redesign) based on an adaptation of Edward Tufte's principles on the visual display of information.

How is this framework important to the socio-material theory and the evolutionary routine theory? How can this be applied as an edtech workshop, professional development experience, research problem and/or an online learning program?

Great user design portal: UX Magazine

articles and resources on usability, user experience, and interaction design

user experience quotes and articles to inspire and connect the UX community

Distance Learning Users Group for K-12

Distance Learning Users Group for K-12

like Minecraft, but simpler - and for PC users only - the world is your canvas and the ground is your paint. With potential uses in education

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.

Immersion is the subjective impression that one is participating in a comprehensive, realistic experience. Interactive media now enable various degrees of digital immersion. The more a virtual immersive experience is based on design strategies that combine actional, symbolic, and sensory factors, the greater the participant's suspension of disbelief that she or he is "inside" a digitally enhanced setting. Studies have shown that immersion in a digital environment can enhance education in at least three ways: by allowing multiple perspectives, situated learning, and transfer. Further studies are needed on the capabilities of immersive media for learning, on the instructional designs best suited to each type of immersive medium, and on the learning strengths and preferences these media develop in users.

WallWisher: an online notice board: Post-its online - no user registration needed, integrate images, music, video, pages - make announcements

Twitter: Mashable's Twitter Guide Book - a guidebook for new and experienced twitter users. How to build community, customize your profile, issues to consider, things to avoid.

Scribblar: works in all browsers - multi-user whiteboard, live audio, image collaboration, & text-chat

The EcoMUVE project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is a recently funded project of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The goal of EcoMUVE is to develop a Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE)-based ecosystems science curriculum for middle school, and to conduct feasibility studies on the practicality, integration, and acceptance of the MUVE-based curriculum for student engagement and learning in classroom settings. MUVEs enable multiple participants to access virtual worlds simultaneously, interacting with other students and with computer-based agents to facilitate collaborative learning activities of various types.

is a Web 2.0 styled editor having different sections for different functions. The tutorial is not of explanatory kind. The user has to have a fair idea of working on photo editors. It is definitely not for beginners. Registering is required to save your work, hence mandatory. There are a few legal hassles also.

Daily insights on user experience, experience design, and people-centered innovation

Insights, ideas, and interactions blog on usability and user design

make sharing your files through Dropbox easier (and thus, more likely that you'll actually DO it ;) - directions on use with PC or Mac.

Sync/Lost: an immersive, muve of music history

simple to-do lists that supports multiple users