elearning 2.0

The report posted on Google online security blog indicates an active exploitation of the vulnerability in highly targeted attacks against its users browsing with Internet Explorer browser.

Diigo: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember Diigo aims to dramatically improve your online productivity. Building upon the strengths of award-winning Diigo V4, widely regarded as one of the best and most popular social bookmarking, web annotation, collaborative research services, Diigo V5.0 has added additional data types (screenshots, pictures, notes, etc) and platform support, such as Chrome, Android, iPad, iPhone, etc. With Version 5.0, Diigo moves one step further towards its vision of providing the best cloud-based personal information management (PIM) service

A free ebook on online learning

This is the community/support site for courselab

Twitter could not possibly be further away from the concept of a computer game or a three dimensional visually rich virtual world. Suddenly instead of learning to fly and exchanging our money for Linden bucks (the currency of Linden Labs' Second Life) we were exchanging grammatically correct sentences for status updates of less than 140 characters! Who could have seen it coming? Perhaps Gartner, who also predicted that "90 Per Cent of Corporate Virtual World Projects Fail Within 18 Months".

Twitter could not possibly be further away from the concept of a computer game or a three dimensional visually rich virtual world. Suddenly instead of learning to fly and exchanging our money for Linden bucks (the currency of Linden Labs' Second Life) we were exchanging grammatically correct sentences for status updates of less than 140 characters! Who could have seen it coming? Perhaps Gartner, who also predicted that "90 Per Cent of Corporate Virtual World Projects Fail Within 18 Months".

Great post from David Jones examining the difference between what we believe to be good practice in elearning and what institutions actually support (whether that support is explicit or not).

Macmillan children's books audio, reviews, quizzes and videos. Worth checking out.

"Tunisia. Egypt. Libya. And Now Bahrain. Protests have spread throughout the Middle East like a wild fire -- and you might assume that it's all just a matter of popular sentiment. But if you take a step back, you find that the countries that have seen the most protests also share some deep, structural similarities."

"The open data cook book is collecting recipes for ways to find and use open data, particularly open data of social value - such as open government data, or open data for campaigners and charities. Working with data can seem scary. But it doesn't have to be. There are many different ways to make data useful - and lots of different gadgets to help you. Take a look at the growing list of cook book recipes to find simple step by step ideas for making use of open data. "

"Tim's Blog working for social change; thinking about the details "

graph.tk is an online and open-source graphing utillity. It runs in any modern browser that supports the canvas element. It plots functions, and displays them with style.