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By Lanwitches on Langwitches blog, March 29, 2010. This blog post includes a slideshow that describes 70 web-based tools that might be of interest to educators. The tools are only roughly categorized. As the author notes, "It is not about the tools, it's about the skills." That said, there are some interesting tools here.

By Laura S. Quinn, Idealware, January 2012. Looks at a variety of software tools that can support program evaluation. Report includes a category on Analyzing and Displaying Your Measures, which might be most relevant. There are recommendations for report builders, tools that help create data visualizations, both quantitative and qualitative analysis tools, and dashboard recommendations.  Also reference to an organization called Innovation Network, which might be of interest.

This wiki offers an evolving collection of technology tools for collaborative work and online education. It is maintained by Margaret Riel and faculty and others from the Masters of Arts in Learning Technologies, Graduate School of Education and Psychology from Pepperdine University. There are a variety of tools and other useful links here -- watch out for currency, though. When visiting the site on 4/1/10, the last update had been Dec 2009.

iRubric is a tool that helps faculty design rubrics for assessment. This tool is part of the Rcampus suite of opensource tools.

to see if I could fundamentally change the way the teachers related to technology, not just in the classroom as a tool for teaching learners, but as a tool within their everyday working practice.

Posted by Clay Johnson, 10/25/2011 on ExpertLabs In the context of experts' conversations with government, the author of this post argues that tools such as IdeaScale, Google Moderator and UserVoice are useful for brainstorming but not the best method for a true dialog. These tools give government an excuse to "not" participate with people where they are. The comments on a government site, i.e. the dialogue on evolving data.gov (via IdeaScale) shouldn't replace "participating with practicitioners," which should happen where they are. (i.e. in a Jam, I.F.) Expert Labs aims to get more people involved in order to make policy better. Expert Labs publishes reports, constantly updates their blog and has developed a tool, ThinkUp, that enables users to automatically archive data and communications across Facebook, Twitter and Google+, encouraging engagement on these networks.

"Curation Platforms are tools enabling you to select manually content online, to edit and share it. This comparison table is part of a French IT news article about Curation Tools: "Le Guide de la Curation". For more details about products and criteria, please read to the original article: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/529626/le-guide-de-la-curation-(3)-les-outils/ This comparison is associated to another one about the automatic publishing tools, that automatically select content : http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/outils-de-publication-automatique-md16pw3"

This is free software that you can download in order to tag images (or elements in images) on your website/blog. The tool was created as a merchandising/marketing tool (e.g. visitors can find out where to buy all of the cool things in your image), but it seems ripe for other more scholarly purposes as well. Downside: unclear whether others can tag your images.

By Angela Alcorn on the blog MakeUseOf, October 8 2010; shared by IdealWare in their Best of the Web email, May 8 2012. The post offers some tips, links to tutorials, and then 10 free tools, with brief annotation to describe what each is good at.

By sleslie on edtechpost (blog), Feb 14, 2012. In this post on authoring "open textbooks," the author looks at the process of book sprints, which were borrowed from coders in the open source and hacker communities. In a book sprint, a group of interested participants come together with the goal of creating a book (or book-like) project. In addition to a very general outline of the process, the post recommends some tools that a group might use, as well as a link to some sample books.

Both the tools and the process seem interesting. How might this process be applied to a KPI project...in lieu of a Jam? In conjunction with a Jam? As the Jam take-away?

Kaltura is an open source video tool that has plug-ins/modules for many popular open source tools including Moodle and WordPress.

eduTecher is a great place to look at new educational technologies, or to find just the right technology to do a job (e.g. document collaboration or word clouds). Each tool is reviewed by the staff, and users can search the database various ways. While many tools have a K-12 focus, there are plenty that would be useful in postsecondary education as well.

By Robin Good and Daniele Bazzano for MasterNewMedia, June 7 2010. This article explains the whys and hows of wireframing, and includes descriptions of 10 free web-based tools that can help.

provides a comparison of e-learning authoring tools

V3. Online data collection tool developed for purposes of LDSE project. Tool offers existing patterns that can be adopted or adapted as well as the opportunity to create a new pattern. The Learning Outcome for existing patterns are given as are methods and examples/ instances of a pattern.

possible inspiration for Rec Sys.

wide range of free chart, mindmapping, drawing(?), and diagramming tools

Great curation tools to find and organize online resources

Trapit is a tool that assists with discovery of new resources and also provides a framework for presentation of resources, thus making it a potentially useful tool for content curation. Fall 2012, they are promoting educational applications as well.

The tool enables users to take a screenshot or load an existing image and then annotate/add text to the image and save it.

"Developing high-quality content is still a problem. This is why I'm currently infatuated with the idea of content curation and the tools that enable it."