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How can Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per tweet, have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are between 3,000-8,000 words long? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters? A new Twitter guide published by the LSE Public Policy Group |and the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog |seeks to answer this question, and show academics and researchers how to get the most out of the micro-blogging site. The Guide is designed to lead the novice through the basics of Twitter but also provide tips on how it can aid the teaching and research of the more experienced academic tweeter.

This blog posting deconstructs the recent infographic from the Envisioning Technology website - http://envisioningtech.com/ - and outlines some of the more interesting predictions.

This blog follows CSU's investigation into mobile learning including iPad trials. Also see http://www.csu.edu.au/division/landt/resources/mobilelearning

7 checklists to consider when building or before releasing a elearning course. Some questions are bleeding obvious, but others are quite deep.

blog integration test

This brief summarizes the main themes from the EDUCAUSE Analytics Sprint, held July 24-26, 2012. Presenters and participants exchanged ideas and information via webinars, online conversations, Twitter, and blog posts

A good summary of iPad apps categorised according to these learning objectives: 1. I want my students to record and edit video on the iPad. 2. I want my students to record and / or edit audio on the iPad. 3. I want my students to read class content on the iPad. 4. I want my students to annotate course readings on the iPad 5. I want my students to be able to use audio books on the iPad. 6. I want my students to use the iPad as a digitial notebook / note-taking device. 7. I want my students to use their iPads to create screencasts to share and demonstrate their understanding. 8. I want my students to create presentations on the iPad. 9. I want my students to create digital stories on the iPad. 10. I want my students to be able to study with the iPad. 11. I want to use the iPad as a student response system. 12. I want my students to create written content on the iPad. 13. I want my students to blog on the iPad. 14. I want my students to create ePubs / iBooks to read on the iPad.

Cathy Moore runs a well-received blog on elearning. In this post she offers both tips (nothing too revelatory) & gotchas (where she has decided NOT to use certain tools, eg public chat, 'meaningless' polls & breakout rooms). She discusses webinars in general, not Collaborate specifically.

TED Conversations was designed and built from the ground up to foster meaningful conversation among the global community who watch, share and discuss TEDTalks.

From Dean Groom - http://deangroom.com/blog/

The E-Primer series: #1 - E-learning in context - An introduction to e-learning and the international experience; definitions of terms; a theory for e-learning; technologies; benefits #2 - E-education and faculty - Education theory and e-learning; the changing role of faculty; workload issues; quality #3 - Designing for e-learning - Instructional design; learning objects; constructing a hybrid course #4 - Online discourse - Synchronous and asynchronous communications; designing online discourse; online facilitation. #5 - Extending e-possibilities - Web 2.0; ePortfolios; virtual worlds; lifelong learning, etc A blog updating various elements of the E-Primers is being kept at http://e-ako.blogspot.com/

Came across this on a blog for OER

Listing with a brief description of smart phone use in the classroom. Some well known; some lesser known ideas.

A good summary of potential for Google presentations.

2 lessons about how to improve student engagement in flipped classrooms

Excellent exa,mple of game theory, or indeed problem based learning in a university course.