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some nice screen shots here

"earth album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr."

Google Reader + iPhone = Awesome

Chrome Frame is a new open-source product from Google that promises to answer web developer dreams. It's a free plug-in for IE6, IE7 and IE8 that turns Internet Explorer into Google's Chrome browser!

A quick hack to link Google Wave engine to other services inside Moodle.

The goal of this guide is to teach you how to make Google gadgets regardless of your skill level, even if you do not know any coding.

"No, Social Search isn't yet another social network aggregator. It's a way for you to make your Google search results more relevant by adding a section dedicated to content written by your friends and acquaintances. Though limited, we think it's pretty useful thus far."

A piece of a Personal Learning Network -- searchability.

Users at Northwestern University will be able to log into both Blackboard Learn and Google Apps with a single signon thanks to the efforts of the institution's IT development team. The code created by the team as a Blackboard Building Block and named Bboogle has also been released as open source to let other institutions use or build on the technology at no cost.

"In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we've built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings. "

The world is full of interesting things. Use google chrome for this if possible. It will take a little time to download but it has a lot of creative material worth viewing.

How do you create a social learning enviornment for free, but wihtout a mish-mash of incompatible tools? Jane Hart investigates"... Google, which at least gives single signon, but other integrations are noteably lacking.

Not much new in the article, but the comments have an interesting backward-looking quality, referring often to integration of campus systems, and not at all to new ways of learning.

POD's wiki for sharing and discussion

"I recently created a stand-alone page for my video Web 2.0 and your own Learning and Development... ... it has been found by a few people, including Marian Thacher, who discusses it here. One note: she says, "all of this only works for the very motivated learner... what about that learner who isn't so motivated, who has some learning challenges, for whom school was more of a misery than a joy?" Quite so - which is why I stress enabling students to manage their own learning and to follow their own interests. Otherwise, they won't be motivated, and the rest of this stuff is not nearly as effective as it could be. Marian Thacher, Adult Education and Technology, March 17, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Schools, Twitter, Online Learning, Web 2.0, Video, Google, YouTube] "

Helen Barrett attempting to balance portfolio typologies

diagram of relationship between workspace and showcase portfolio

"If you're wondering what use Google's new Wave tool might have for teaching, one online-learning leader has an answer: combining classes from different colleges."

"Wave doesn't offer a built-in way to export the content of a wave to a file, but the PDF Wave Exporter is a start."