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Google have announce­d that the media you upload to your Google Drive account from what­ev­er source you've got - be it your smart­phone, your tablet, your Chrome­book, or your desk­top com­put­er - can now be viewed from Google+ and shared direct­ly as well.

Student groups can work together to annotate the same Google Map! A Google account is needed and sharing is done in a similar way as other Google Drive tools (e.g. Docs, Sheets, Slides etc).

Pie sharing in complex clinical collaborations: a piece of cake? (British Medical Journal, December 2010)

At the core of connected learning are three values: 1. Equity -- when educational opportunity is available and accessible to all young people, it elevates the world we all live in. 2. Full Participation -- learning environments, communities, and civic life thrive when all members actively engage and contribute. 3. Social connection -- learning is meaningful when it is part of valued social relationships and shared practice, culture, and identity. Also see videos at http://connectedlearning.tv/what-is-connected-learning

Kieran Mathieson, an Associate Professor at Oakland University who has developed an online site at CoreDogs.com where he publishes lessons, tools, a textbook and more, commented and shared his work.

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.

We've discovered 52 great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student, with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive.

= notetaking, sharing resources, commenting, amplifying, asking questions, helping one another, offering suggestions, building community, and opening the classroom (from Derek Bruff, the Assistant Director at the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University)

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

Copyright / Finding images and audio / Create own audio / Documentary video / Animated video / Screencasting / Using Animoto / Full-length video / Sharing videos

Showcase and planned to be tool to create and share info graphics. Could be good.. the about movie is nice

"Google has just unveiled Google+, its ambitious answer to Facebook. It turns all of Google into one giant social network, thanks to a core group of social products and a new navigation bar that integrates sharing into every single Google product."

I used this for a presenter to share a 15MB PPT presentation with me (for FaST Symposium). Free version allows for 200MB upload.

This site looks good when searching for images. I like the fact that the licencing info is there on the right-hand side and looks pretty clear and concise. Maybe we should share this link with Tom Cochrane and see what he thinks (seeing as he is a Creative Commons guru)...?

July 30-August 1 = a free, online program of webinars, activities, resources, and discussions focused on the transformative elements of MOOCs-connectedness, scale, data, and new models-and IT's role.

This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.

Alternative methods for formative and summative feedback on students work, rather than using 'track changes'