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Lots of practical and current ideas.

The project was commissioned in 2000 by the AUTC to explore the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to facilitate flexible learning opportunities for students by identifying learning designs that have been demonstrated to contribute to high quality learning experiences and determining which learning designs may be redeveloped in a more generic form.

pptPlex uses Plex technology to give you the power to zoom in and out of slide sections and move directly between slides that are not sequential in your presentation. (somewhat like Prezi)

From the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

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/

Trinity College Foundation Studies at the University of Melbourne began an iPad pilot in August 2010. We launched the pilot with roughly 50 students and 20 staff exploring the use of technology in the classroom.

Shows 2 useful graphics. See orginial Gartner info: http://www.gartner.com/technology/core/products/research/topics/emergingTrendsTechnologies.jsp

Microsoft Office 365, the technology giant's suite of productivity apps for the cloud, made its global debut Tuesday. The cloud-based software places Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync into the cloud. The product was first introduced last October as Microsoft's way to bring its popular collaboration and productivity products to the web. Office 365 comes with all of the Office Web Apps (Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint), as well as email support and Microsoft Access. Essentially, Microsoft has created one product for all of its cloud-based productivity software.

blog integration test

"It's Big Brother, sort of, but with a good intent," said Tracy Hurley, the dean of the school of business. ... Hmmm???

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.

I note particularly the planed "engaging ed" competition. QUT staff could be part of this...

A Google site which is full of tutorials on using Google Apps (Google Docs, Google Sites, etc).  I'm sure our team could use these when instructing others in how to use these tools.