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This is one of my favourite intros to the potential of ePortfolios from back in the ancient day (2004).

This paper will discuss the concepts of "Electronic Portfolios as Digital Stories of Deep Learning" and "Digital Storytelling as Reflective Portfolio" by linking two dynamic processes to promote deep learning: Portfolio Development and Digital Storytelling. A major challenge today with electronic portfolios is to maintain learner intrinisic motivation to willingly engage in the portfolio process. The use of multimedia tools is one strategy that involves and engages learners; another technology that is engaging young people today is the web log or "blogs" and "wikis." But first, lets look at the issues that are turning learners off about the current approach to electronic portfolios, at least in Teacher Education.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. 

Google's interactive human anatomy app. It will take a minute to load, and you might have to use Chrome to view it. 

Depict results to Google Searches as dynamic concept maps. 

Quora easily allows you or your students to find questions that have already been posed (that is, by individuals who might or might not have any connection to your course). More than likely, responses to those questions will have already been contributed. 

Platform for conducting debates. 

A list of apps used by Will Howarth, of Princeton University, to complement his research. 

Learn how to develop you own iPhone and iPad app by downloading the "iPhone Application Development" course created by Stanford University. It's available on iTunes U. 

A learning environment that purports to go beyond the conventional LMS. 

iPad and iPhone Apps pertaining to Applied Health Science, compiled by the Georgetown University Medical Center

A collection of interactive learning activities (interactivities) and simulations. If you try just one of them, check out the "Scale of the Universe" interactivity. 

Real-time collaborative document sharing.

This page explains in a nutshell what John Biggs is on about; the SOLO taxonomy is a really nice alternative to Bloom from a different tradition entirely; however, it isn't without its own problems.

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The use of student evaluations of their professors. 

An understanding of complex causality is a necessary foundational skill for advanced science and mathematics. Ecosystems science, an important strand of the life science content standards, requires an understanding of complex causal relationships. However, even after instruction, students often retain inaccurate interpretations about ecosystems' structural patterns and systemic causality. To address this issue, we are developing a Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE)-based ecosystems science curriculum called EcoMUVE, based on middle school life science standards.

Twitter, Wordle, and ChimeIn as Student Response Pedagogies