How to add a button to your website to let people easily add an event (or all your events) from your public google calendar to their own google calendar.

Could be useful for Learning Institute individual events and CILT/PGCAP whole calendars.

HEA's new site collecting together evidence related to teaching and learning in HE

Gym membership style model for lifelong learning/personal development. Membership fee, then able to go to any course. Details: http://explore.sunderland.ac.uk/

Documents (e.g. pdfs, doc files etc.) can be uploaded to Issuu and it creates a flash viewer with the 'turning the page' effect of a real document. Can then be embedded into webpages etc.

QMSU have started using this for CUB magazine and their handbook

Stanford has a series of lectures from its teaching award winners available on iTunes. Summarised on this webpage (with links)

This paper discusses how the theories of innovation diffusion have been incorporated into the field of instructional technology.

Saw this on a science feed and only scanned it so far. The paper is old, but it might be interesting - various fields are interested in how innovations spread through a community (e.g. agriculture) and considering those theories with respect to education might be interesting. Anyone seen anything similar in the past?

University gives out iphones/ipods to all students and integrates all online/internet functions with them.

Count me in.

Review of videoconferencing options from Iowa State. Connected pages (links at bottom) have more detail on software options etc.

Adobe Connect web meeting app - available for free for up to three participants (including host - only one who needs to sign up). Participants simply go to the host's meeting room url (which is easy to remember) and can use webcams/audio, share screen/windows, type messages and meeting notes, use the whiteboard, exchange files.

I have an account and tested it with Carl. For me - seemed to work well and could be a useful (and free) way of conducting, say, a tutorial with feedback for someone who couldn't physically be there for whatever reason. Anyone who wants to try, let me know and I'll invite you to the meeting room.

The main interesting thing here is that LSU had a public consultation for deciding on their CMS, thus there is much more information available than normal on how the decision was reached.

Bb buys Angel, another HE CMS (about 3rd in market in US after Bb and WebCT - that'll be second then as Bb bought WebCT ).

"you will be assimilated..."

Prices etc. are still a problem though... (oh, and you can't get kindles over here - brit firm plastic logic bringing one out soon though. IMHO I think that in a couple year's time, when they hit ipod-like mass market (and are a lot cheaper) these could potentially bring a lot of change/possibilities in HE. Unless something else takes over by then of course...

E-paper readers get that little bit closer to mass market. Amazon launches larger version of kindle - business and academia prime markets for larger (and annotating) readers given reports/papers/textbooks.

Ignoring the headline (main story is better)...report due which considers affect/impact of web2.0 on learning and teaching.

I think it might be worth continuing a little longer as it is, but then using the service for an open group/lists i.e. a new group - keep this one for ESD so we can be a little more open on here and more focused on ESD/interests of the people here. It isn't difficult to share/add links to other groups/lists. I was thinking of possibly placing all the annotated links on the academic practice part of our website on here in public lists. The RSS feeds david mentioned would be good for updated too.

Also, one thing from the experience so far is that it seems to work better for me when there are enough additions so it doesn't die, but not too many (just right as goldilocks would say). Too many and you get a bit swamped and don't read though properly - I'd guess 5-10 ish a week(?). What do other people think?

Currently available next generation of pocket-sized small projectors for small presentations.

Flash animation for discovering the various ways of displaying the same information about risk and how much difference it makes to perceptions. Graphics and numerical data from trials in the media.

Easy way to produce more interesting slideshows

Program page about the Justice course at Harvard. Effectively an example of an advertisement/trailer video for a course + some details.

I want to do the course after watching it! Large lecture hall filled with students (apparently) paying attention.