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we recorded how 232 users looked at thousands of Web pages. We found that users' main reading behavior was fairly consistent across many different sites and tasks. This dominant reading pattern looks somewhat like an F and has the following three components: Users first read in a horizontal movement, usually across the upper part of the content area. This initial element forms the F's top bar.Next, users move down the page a bit and then read across in a second horizontal movement that typically covers a shorter area than the previous movement. This additional element forms the F's lower bar.Finally, users scan the content's left side in a vertical movement. 

For people who publish more to the web than to print, this article will ring very, very true. 

Wikis in education 12 April, 2012 | Interactive web services at the turn of the 21st century spawned a number of new alluring ways to use online services writes Gerry White in DERN.

Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

The Online Therapy Institute provides a range of services including counselling in virtual worlds and online, web site templates for private therapists to be able to conduct e-counselling and more. Technology is becoming part of the profession. Preparing our learners to use it is vital to their careers.

Moodle 2.2 ships for the first time with a smartphone-friendly theme called MyMobile. This can be set either as the site's primary theme or as the default theme for mobiles. This theme by John Stabinger has been around a while but makes it into Moodle core so congratulations to John on this achievement! This is a great way to use Moodle's functionality from a mobile, a web connection is required of course as this is not a native mobile app, but it more than fills the gap while development on the official Moodle native apps continues.

iGoogle acts as an RSS feed reader - and you can also add in some fun and useful gadgets. It comes free with a Google account. Useful for tracking activity of multiple web sites and skimming headlines. Can create multiple dashboards (tabs) for specific topics).

MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called "MITx." MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pacefeature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communicationallow for the individual assessment of any student's work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITxoperate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions.

Dogpile searches three major search engines: Google, Yahoo! and MS Bing. Can produce results less "tailored" and commercial than Google.

The internet service market in Australia is dynamic, characterised by continual innovation in internet service provider (ISP) offerings, take-up of innovative consumer access devices and increased consumer participation in the online environment.