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Universal design for learning resources tagged by Lisa Thumann

Create a 'globe' full of pictures using a set of dags.

VotApedia is an audience response system that doesn't require issuing clickers or need specialist infrastructure. Known users can create surveys and edit the pages on this site. See if your your account has this functionality by looking for the tag "knownuser" next to your account name. If it doesn't and you want it contact Ken.Taylor@csiro.au. You can also look at other people's survey in the recent surveys, or participate in an active survey below. You can read the presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 conference. Audience response systems are widely used for education, but not commonly in Australia. It is hoped that removing the complication and expense of clickers will encourage the use of this teaching aid in Australian educational institutions. VotApedia is intended for co-located audiences but also works with remote audiences which has previously been a different class of application. Surveys are in a multiple choice question (MCQ) form. There is VotApedia Use and Development for more detail about this system.

The 2009 edna Workshop tour has the dates dialed in. The tag is ednaconf.

Image recommendations Images insuggest is a fun way to browse images from Flickr. Select a couple of images you like and you will instantly get recommendations from like-minded people. Web page recommendations Web insuggest is a tool for discovering new web sites based on you own unique taste. Enter a couple of web sites you like and instantly get personal recommendations. Bookmark based recommendations Bookmarks insuggest helps you find new web sites by analyzing your del.iciou.us bookmarks. Filter specific tags to change the results.

"http://www.visuwords.com/?word=$tag"

"If she hadn't been wearing a visitor tag, he'd have mistaken her for a fellow high school student. He'd been volunteered to fix the library's computers for extra credit. Fixing meant cleaning off spyware and gum, and popping the key letters back into their proper order. He didn't mind, though. It gave him a chance to use the computers alone. And he would have used them alone for the rest of his life, if Ms. Kelly hadn't shown up dragging a handcart overloaded with boxes of printer paper .."

A new way of exploring the Flickr collections is commonsExplorer, from Creative Canberra. It is an experimental interactive browser for the Flickr Commons. It provides a "big picture" view of these collections - a rich, single screen interface that reveals structures and patterns and encourages exploration. It's a quickly downloaded browsing interface that gives you, and students, a more visual view of the collections and the images. You can scroll through the list of all the participating institutions, then either search through the tag cloud or window shop through the pop-ups for images.

A tool for presenting flickr photos by tag, user name or photo set id

The recent holiday break has reminded me of a number of things - how organised I am at work and with all things digital, yet my working space at home,

Enter your twitter username to see a tag cloud from the 'bios' of your twitter flock.

Description a 6 search engines that are good for finding images - 4 were familiar but 2 are new or updated. TinEye now has a MulticolorEngine and WeSEE is new.

"Streaming video websites are such a big part of our lives, it's hard to remember a time when they didn't exist. These websites revolutionized our computer video experience - no longer do we have to download every single video we want to watch - it's all right there! But the opposite is also true. Sometimes sending a link or embedding a video is not enough, and we need the actual file, or only its soundtrack. And when that happens, the default FLV file format rarely cuts it. Luckily, there are several downloaders-converters out there that make it easy as pie to download videos and convert them into almost every possible format."

From @makeuseof blog: Offers a list of extra simple file-sharing services. With these services, there are no accounts, no clients and no interfaces to learn. Simply upload your file, get a link, and share it.

Creating a quality infographic is not an easy task and not everyone can do it properly. Here is an infgraphic that tries to give a step-by-step guide to haw to create a better one.