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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.

List of top 10 tools for learning - compiled by learning professionals

This is a most interesting list--and it certainly indicates that we are headed in the right direction.

From the song: "Prepare us for our future, and not your past." I want to show this video to the folks at my institution who resist using technology in their teaching. Preparing students for their future includes preparing them to be able to pick up and learn new technologies quickly. It's not the technology itself that students need to learn - what's current today will be obsolete in a few years; it's the willingness and ability to learn a new one as needed.

You are right, Carol. This is becoming a vital issue--teachers have never been noted for eagerness ti change, but without use of technology, we are not only not reaching more students, but we are, in too many cases, negating possible education. The students, too, must step up to current technological changes and feel comfortable with where they are headed.

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.

Explores the development of online learning in UK higher education as a case study to illustrate the difficulties created by an over-reliance on technology push and a failure to understand and respond to market needs.

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.

"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."

Inside higher ed article on support for free online courses at community colleges (sorry about the tags -- I don't know how to change them once I've submitted?)

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.