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By Elinor Mills in the InSecurity Complex column of CNET News, posted July 15, 2010. Mills presents a variety of password storage solutions, from the "old school" (on a scrap of paper in your wallet) to desktop, web-based, and USB-based solutions. There are links to many of the key players, as well as to earlier CNET articles.

By Dawn Foster in Web Worker Daily, Jan 30 2009. This is a nice article (with slides) outlining what an online community manager does.

By Andrew Bonamici, Steven G. Huter, and Dale Smith in EDUCAUSE Review, 45(2), March/April 2010, pp 10-11. Those of us in the "developed" world (North America, Europe, etc.) rely on cyberinfrastructure to gain access to the vast amounts of information available on the Web. But what about students and researchers in the rest of the world?

by Cecelia Foster on Prezi, July 6 2010. This is not the most intuitive presentation to use, but Foster seems to have collected many, many great Moodle resources from across the web.

By Will Richardson, on his blog "weblogg-ed: learning from the read/write web," posted 22 June 2010. Richardson's main focus seems to be K-12 (as is the focus of many of the very interesting comments that this post has received), but the questions he asks are relevant to students of all ages and at all levels: how do we measure more esoteric qualities like the ability to follow "passion," how to "earn...a living solving problems and helping to make the world a better place." It's as much about the quality of education as of assessment.

By Dakaria I. Aarons in Education Week, March 25 2010. The New Leaders for New Schools principal-training program has launched a new version of its online portal for the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC). The article reports that the portal is a "Web-based compendium of professional-development resources for principals, staff-development coaches, and teachers." The article links to the database. Full article is subscription only. For access, contact your local library.

By Ethan Benatan, Jezmynne Dene, Hilary Eppley, Margret Geselbracht, et al. on Academic Commons, September 9, 2009. The authors discuss the evolution of the Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource Web site (VIPEr), an online collaborative site to share teaching materials and ideas and build a sense of community among inorganic chemistry educators.

The authors of this site write on all things related to building an audience for and driving traffic to your web presence, be it a blog, twitter, a website, or something else. There is an RSS feed to deliver the regularly published feature articles.

Home page of the popular print- and web-based journal. There are some interesting RSS feeds, including Wired Campus and a community college e-newsletter.

Provided by Futurelab, Education Eye "brings you a wide range of exciting, relevant and useful innovations which are selected from the best of the web and updated daily." (from About page). At first blush, the site might seem tricky to navigate, but it is loaded with interesting ideas. Entries are color-coded (key is on the left), and you can also search for specific terms.

By Charles Leadbeater. This is the web page for the We-think project, and includes downloads for chapters 1-3, as well as links to other materials related to the book (including an early draft).

"The London Knowledge Lab is a unique collaboration between...the Institute of Education and Birkbeck" (both UK). Computer scientists and social scientists work together to study issues in education, sociology, media, the semantic web, etc.

Open Access journals are freely available on the web. Like other scholarly journals, some are peer-reviewed and others are not. This directory, published by Lund University Libraries (Sweden) helps users to navigate nearly 7000 journals, over 3000 searchable at article level (as of 8/2/11).

This site might be helpful for searches as you conduct your own scholarly research, and also as you consider publishing research.

From their About blurb, "HigherEd Live is a weekly web show focused on the emerging role of social media and digital media marketing in higher education."

From the homepage description, "gRSShopper is a personal web environment that combines resource aggregation, a personal dataspace, and personal publishing."

This is a web application that helps manage various social media apps (particularly Twitter).

Great curation tools to find and organize online resources

Described on site as "3-ring binder for the Web" Tool to collect, organize and present resources. SM bookmarked a site that is using it for a presentation, "The Ultimate Guide to Google+ For Educators" See tag live_binder

Video Curation Engine. There are multiple fee and technology levels for this tool, including magnifyFree. With magnifyFree you can gather videos across the web and build your own video channel at no cost.