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Jane Hart focuses on tools for learning and comprises various "top pick" lists based upon her own and other learning professionals' suggestions.

This is an web-based authoring tool that allows one to create an interactive lesson, and export it as a SCORM 2004 or SCORM 1.2 object which can be imported into a LMS. One can add a variety of media such as voice, text, video, and still images. One can also import a PowerPoint presentation. An interesting feature is that one can intersperse assessment screens to check student learning. Assessments can be graded or non-graded.

"Copyright law does include exemptions for professors who wish to use audiovisual media "in the course of face-to-face teaching activities of a nonprofit educational institution, in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction" - so long as the professor is not showing media that he or she knows has been made illegally. The university said streaming the video on a password-protected Web site, where only students who are registered members of the class can access it, satisfies these criteria. But the trade group is arguing that a password-protected space on the Web is not a classroom. "The face-to-face teaching exemption allows a video to be played in class, not streamed to the classroom from a remote location," Dohra said in an e-mail."

Prezi, Zoho Show, Slide-Share. Non-linear presentation tools. ELI 7 Things You Should Know About ... series

Great new survey from KC Green at the Campus Computing Project.

"Bloom's Taxonomy is simply a way to connect [instructional technologies, particularly Web 2.0 tools,] to those that would be identified with the Affective, Psychomotor, or Cognitive domains--specifically the Cognitive."

Great resource blog.

This blog is an interview with Stewart Mader who writes extensively about uses of wikis in education and in the business world. He offers numerous educational uses for wikis in the classroom.