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The Internet Archive/Wayback Machine provides a way of accessing older versions of a website. It can also be useful if a site is temporarily inaccessible. Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.

Archived Eluminate Live presentations

For those rare moments when you need to go back in time and relive the memories of Netscape 4.5

NextSpace asked nine experts for their thoughts about our increasingly online lives. The challenge is how to apply social networking in a digital age to enhance and extend the public service mission of libraries, museums and archives.

Take a look at this site for resources on technology tools for the classroom.

Technology tools you can use

Education World offers new technology content every day. Some of our pieces related to technology tools can be found in this archive.

Technology has always been a major focus on EducationWorld.com. This archive compiles many of the features we have done on the subject of using technology in the classroom. Many of these articles have been updated many times or even rewritten as technology changes.

Will great free courses drive down applications to places like Stanford? That's doubtful. It's more likely that these offerings will help build a stronger university brand. Writing about the success of a Stanford online computer science course in the Wall Street Journal, Holly Finn implies that free Web-based education is about to or should replace elite universities: It's a thrilling collegiate coup.

This was really interesting...there are so many free online courses. The issue seems to be quality and accreditation.

So many levels of separation...I know, it's weird to be posting a link to a collection of links on a collection of links. But this is a good one.

Article discusses 5 characteristics of social media that can enhance online learning.

Diigo's latest upgrade has made it all the rage. My twitter is full of diigo related tweets and many, many of the blogs that I read contain posts and comments about this excellent web application.

Thanks for the post Rick - Twitter was a breeze in comparison to Diigo. Maybe I'll come around. :-)

ReadWriteWeb published this list in August of 2010 - interesting and I can definitely see the potential in the tools and tech they featured! I'll be looking into Wikispaces, VoiceThread, and SlideShare which I have not previously heard about.

"Using Twitter for Teaching, Learning and Professional Development in Higher Education" Archives and resources from the "Twitter in Edu" webinar that discuss engaging students with Twitter and implementing various platforms into your classroom and curriculum.

Adding Audio to Your Online Course: Topic is revisited from more than 2 years ago. Dan and Susan look at how universal voice is when teaching online. Are people using voice and if so, how

In this episode, Dan and Susan talk about the use of video in online instruction.

FREE webinars include collaboration technologies, Merlot Introduction, and ePortfolios in the Cloud. Resources include Sloan Semester Archives that tell the story of how "Using online learning, colleges and universities from across the country responded in record numbers to help students and institutions impacted by the storms. Dubbed "Sloan Semester" the initiative provided free online courses to students impacted by Katrina and Rita storms." Here you can identify more benchmarks in a useful case-study of how Institutions committed to online learning were transformed to leverage learning resources in a time of need. I know that Illinois schools looked at Elluminate when H1N1 was an active global pandemic.