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Twylah creates a visual newsletter and  seperate your twitter stream into different topics

Will be following conference using their twitter stream @oebconference using theitr twitter tag #oeb11

Twitter Account Management. Clean up and manage who you follow. Find out who isn't following you back.Find out which inactive accounts you follow. Easily search inside your Twitter stream. Link Google+ to your Twitter account.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are online learning events that can take place synchronously and asynchronously for months. Participants assemble to hear, see, and participate in backchannel communication during live lectures. They read the same texts at the same time, according to a calendar. Learning takes place through self-organized networks of participants, and is almost completely decentralized: individuals and groups create blogs or wikis around their own interpretations of the texts and lectures, and comment on each other's work; each individual and group publicises their RSS feed, which are automatically aggregated by a special (freely available) tool, gRSShopper. Every day, an email goes out to all participants, aggregating activity streams from all the blogs and wikis that engage that week's material. MOOCs are a practical application of a learning theory known as "connectivism" that situates learning in the networks of connections made between individuals and between texts.