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By Jonathan D. Becker on his blog, Educational Insanity, August 9 2011. Becker makes recommendations not just on how we should reform education, but also why. And how we should talk about it. Thought-provoking.

No author or date listed, this blog posts promotes a guide to Google+ for educators, written by Steven W. Anderson. I bookmark this post for two reasons. First, obviously, the opportunity for educators to learn more about Google+ and it's potential educational applications. But also the format, LiveBinder, is an interesting way to present and share resources.

By cmcraft (Dr. Chris Craft) on his blog, Crucial Thought. Craft posts his criticisms of 2.0 and his experience transitioning to Haiku.

Note that Craft works with 6th graders, so his use of Moodle is quite different from ours.

Posted by Seth Godin on Seth's Blog, October 16 2008. This page links to Godin's published (print) book, Tribes, as well as the e-book by and about his online "triiibe" group. For more, follow tags godin or tribes

Posted by Marlèn Arkesteijn on her blog, Capturing Development, June 24 2011. For more, see tags patton or evaluation.

Blog of Brandt Redd, previously of Agilix

Goog*lio noun (1) a hybrid next generation e-portfolio that utilizes emerging open, social, web2.0, and Google applications such as blogs, wikis, social networks and software to create a student created and controlled personal learning environment and lifelong content management system that can be shared and viewed from different perspectives, within various contexts, and for multiple purposes. noun (2) a free and easy to use portfolio web site for individuals to design as a space, story, and system that functions as a workspace and showcase for learners to collect, select, reflect, publish, link, archive, and demonstrate knowledge, skills, reflections, through multimedia artifacts. verb (3) "googlio it" to publish and connect a digital artifact to your webfolio. origin: rooted in the word folio (as in Da Vinci) + Google (as in all the free Google Apps & Tools) and evolved from portfolio -->

By edReformer Staff on edReformer blog, October 4 2010. For more about Martin, follow tag martin.

Very interesting stats on education--check out Education 2.0, how technology enhanced learning, etc. Socrato! website

By Lloyd Armstrong on his blog Changing Higher Education, May 23 2011. Announcement of a new Gates Foundation grant to aggregate data from several large post-secondary systems that are members of WICHE (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Ed) in order to get a better picture of outcome data.

Blog by Josh Bernoff, December 11, 2007 on the POST method: A Systematic Approach to Social Strategy. POST stands for people, objectives, strategy, and technology, another way of organizing work instead of the 5 Ps (purpose, people, problem, product, and then process). Believe this is relevant to our course, too.

This site is both a blog/resource for those with an interest in data visualization and a gallery (see Visualizations link). Many interesting competitions are announced; the most recent is posted by the UN Human Development Report office; winners of this contest will be invited to an international UN conference in Brazil

"The community platforms market has been heating up for the past few years. Today, there are more than 100 vendors in the space, and we evaluated the top 5 in our most recent Wave: Lithium, Jive, KickApps, Telligent, and Mzinga.*"

Made me pine for Iris and Stephanie!

MOOC and higher ed

Published by staff from Forum One, "The Online Community Report features best practices, strategies, research, and events for Online Community and Social Media professionals," per About the OC Report. Editors include Jim Cashel, Heather Virga, and other Forum One staff.

The librarians can help with organizing and finding popular content.