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online media conversion tool, including video

The Social Media: are you ready? PODCAMP is an informal fringe event examining the impact social media has on post 14 education in Britain.

Media Mover is a set of modules which allows website administrators to easily create complex file conversion processes

A PodCamp is a usually free BarCamp-style community UnConference for new media enthusiasts

Chalfonts College Blog

New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development (November 20, 2008) - Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America's youth are developing important social and technical skills online - often in ways adults do not understand or value.

The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On An MS-Word version of this essay is available at http://www.downes.ca/files/future2008.doc In the summer of 1998, over two frantic weeks in July, I wrote an essay titled The Future of Online Learning. (Downes, 1998) At the time, I was working as a distance education and new media design specialist at Assiniboine Community College, and I wrote the essay to defend the work I was doing at the time. "We want a plan," said my managers, and so I outlined the future as I thought it would - and should - unfold.

This is a dynamic document designed to support teachers, school media specialists, and education leaders in developing, maintaining, and enforcing policies designed to: 1. Promote the most effective, productive, and instructionally sound uses of digital, networked, and abundant information environments. 2. Provide safe digital environments for learners and to instill safe practices and habits among the learning community.

MEL SIG invites practitioners from HE and FE in the UK to share their experience and expertise in the uses and benefits of podcasting (both audio and video) to support learning and teaching