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On the 19 April, in London CETIS are holding a meeting in London on Repositories and the Open Web. The theme of the meeting is how repositories and social sharing / web 2.0 web sites compare as hosts for learning materials: how well does each facilitate the tasks of resource discovery and resource management; what approaches to resource description do the different approaches take; and are there any lessons that users of one approach can draw from the other?

This paper explores the role that notemaking strategies can play as part of an emancipatory pedagogy designed to empower students. We will argue that being taught active notemaking is fundamental in enabling students to use information with confidence and thus that notemaking allows students to gain a voice (Bowl, 2005; Burns et al., 2006) within their own education. Rather than taking a psychological approach to notemaking, we suggest that notemaking allows students to take ownership of ideas and concepts in powerful ways (Gibbs, 1994 cited Burns and Sinfield, 2004), ways that reinforce understanding and build knowledge. These processes and practices can essentially help students to learn what they want to learn - and, pragmatically, to write essays that are adequately researched and correctly referenced (Burns and Sinfield, 2004). The final focus will be on the collaborative development of NoteMaker, a Reusable Learning Object (RLO) designed for use across the university - and across the sector.

I think a big miss on this article is any discussion of content creation capabilities of netbooks and iPad. Kindle and Dead Tree books don't allow extensive content creation, the iPad has limited capabilities, but netbooks open up a whole range of creative possibility. Also, it's obvious this article is geared toward college students, not middle or high school.

Terry Freedman discusses different tools for creating word clouds including wordle, tagxedo, and many eyes. 

This program will identify core academic vocabulary in a text, using the Academic Word List.

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Customizable online grammar activities that can be use any text of at least 300 words.

I think it should be texts of no more than 300 words.

well-designed, detailed, topics include quality of information on internet, plagiarism & citation, definitions of information sources, much more, geared towards college, could be used in high school 

Free Internet Research tutorial takes about an hour to complete

searchable database of educational resources (lectures in audio and video, etc)

Apps for education

Free education/learning apps that run off a Windows USB drive

A set of smartphone app downloads from the British Geological Survey which show detailed maps of what is under your feet. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/science