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Technological networks have transformed prominent businesses sectors: music, television, financial, manufacturing. Social networks, driven by technological networks, have similarly transformed communication, news, and personal interactions. Education sits at the social/technological nexus of change. . .

Teachertube why to use technology in technology

The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009

The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009

This is an excellent technology blog by rm byrne

This is an excellent technology blog by rm byrne

"Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2011 are: Time to adoption: One Year or Less * Electronic Books * Mobiles Time to adoption: Two to Three Years * Augmented Reality * Game-based Learning Time to adoption: Four to Five Years * Gesture-based Computing * Learning Analytics"

The Emerging List of Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies

The Emerging List of Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies

Journal for educational technology

Great site with lots of resources for thinking about technology enabled learning

Great site with lots of resources for thinking about technology enabled learning

Amazing 3D database technology from UNSW

Amazing 3D database technology from UNSW

Penn State Uni series on Geospatial Technology - great for school students

Currently there are close to 30 different presentations exploring Interesting Ways to use a whole variety of different types of technology in the classroom.

Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education. [Over 20000 members.]

"Moreofit is the first (and best) website similarity search engine. Give moreofit a website you're interested in, and it'll suggest to you alternative highly related and popular websites to explore. why? Sometimes it's hard to know what to search for, and sometimes search just doesn't cut through the clutter. If you've already found a site you love, just tell moreofit, and it will show you similar and alternative websites. how does it work? moreofit takes over 130,000,000 instances of people manually organizing and describing websites and combines this with sophisticated matching and clustering technology. In short, it's magic. "

New Media Consortium home page

Enquiring Minds is * a response to the challenges schools face in the task of preparing children for a future characterized by rapid social, technological and cultural change * a distinctive approach to teaching and learning that takes seriously the knowledge, ideas interests and skills that students bring into schools

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks

CuriousWorks is a centre for innovation in arts, technology and education. It contains many examples of how video is being used in school

Meet a new technology teaching guru each week, as though you were in their staffroom

OpenSimulator is a 3D Application Server. It can be used to create a virtual world which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols. OpenSimulator allows you to develop your world using the technologies you feel work best - we've designed the software to be easily extendable through loadable modules to build completely custom environments. OpenSimulator is released under a BSD License, making it both open source, and commercially friendly to embed in products.

This is a great site from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework that has a range of helpful tips for a wide variety of technologies.