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HOW TO: Convert Your Blog Into a Podcast on iTunes for Free - 0 views

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From Paul Latreille via Twitter - Bloggers can now add text-to-speech capabilities to their site with new tools such as Odiogo, allowing readers to actually listen to blog posts on the website, and even on iTunes (as well as iPods and iPhones) as a podcas

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">From Paul Latreille via Twitter - Bloggers can now add text-to-speech capabilities to their site with new tools such as Odiogo, allowing readers to actually listen to blog posts on the website, and even on iTunes (as well as iPods and iPhones) as a podcas</div>

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BumpTop gives Windows desktop a much-needed makeover » VentureBeat - 0 views

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Microsoft's Windows desktop isn't nearly as efficient at using space as a real desktop. That's what Anand Agarawala concluded more than five years ago, when he began to study ways to create a better user interface for the screen that computer users stare

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Microsoft's Windows desktop isn't nearly as efficient at using space as a real desktop. That's what Anand Agarawala concluded more than five years ago, when he began to study ways to create a better user interface for the screen that computer users stare </div>

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Always Innovating launching touch-screen Netbook | Crave - CNET - 0 views

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The first Netbook based on an ARM CPU, not the typical Atom found in most Netbooks.

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Netvibes Labs - 0 views

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JISC Digital Media - Still images, moving images and sound advice - 0 views

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JISC Digital Media, formerly TASI, exists to help the UK's FE and HE communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media - and to achieve solutions that are innovative, practical and cost effective.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">JISC Digital Media, formerly TASI, exists to help the UK's FE and HE communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media - and to achieve solutions that are innovative, practical and cost effective.</div>

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Whatever Happened to the Top 15 Web Properties of April, 1999? - 0 views

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Ubuntu 9.04 as slick as Windows 7, Mac OS X | Business Tech - CNET News - 0 views

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Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets overnight: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release in October.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets overnight: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release in October.</div>

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Times Higher Education - Edinburgh students reward best teachers - 0 views

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Students campaigning to raise the status of teaching at a Scottish university have rewarded the institution's most inspiring lecturers at their own awards ceremony this week.

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"Where Do You Learn?": Tweeting to Inform Learning Space Development (EDUCAUSE Quarterl... - 0 views

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A study in which participants are asked to send Twitter messages instead of recording the information in a diary

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Technology Enhanced Learning » Welcome to TLRP-TEL - 0 views

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The aim of TEL research is to improve the quality of formal and informal learning, and to make accessible forms of knowledge that were simply inaccessible before.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The aim of TEL research is to improve the quality of formal and informal learning, and to make accessible forms of knowledge that were simply inaccessible before.</div>

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MIT World | Distributed Intelligence - 0 views

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MIT World is a free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World's video index contains more than 600 videos

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">MIT World is a free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World's video index contains more than 600 videos</div>

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The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard - 0 views

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The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns

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USTREAM, You're On. Free LIVE VIDEO Streaming, Online Broadcasts. Create webcasts, vide... - 0 views

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Ustream.TV is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size.

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Bettany Hughes on why we need to make history cool again | Education | The Guardian - 0 views

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Young people, apparently, have little interest in history. The number of those studying the subject for GCSE has dropped to fewer than one in three. Yet in August last year one could have stumbled across an unlikely set of videos on a YouTube site hosted

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Young people, apparently, have little interest in history. The number of those studying the subject for GCSE has dropped to fewer than one in three. Yet in August last year one could have stumbled across an unlikely set of videos on a YouTube site hosted </div>

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Blackboard's e-learning system dominates the online learning software market. In this essay the author critically examines the structure of Blackboard's two online learning delivery systems, Blackboard 8.0 and Blackboard CE6. The author identifies ways in

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Blackboard's e-learning system dominates the online learning software market. In this essay the author critically examines the structure of Blackboard's two online learning delivery systems, Blackboard 8.0 and Blackboard CE6. The author identifies ways in</div>

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Does Google Wave Mean the End of the LMS? - 0 views

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Interesting article on whether the new, much hyped Google wave can be used to replace VLEs

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Colleges Consider Using Blogs Instead of Blackboard - Chronicle.com - 0 views

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Professors at CUNY debate the pros and cons after enduring technical problems with the course-management system

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Times Higher Education - Questions of cost and usefulness dog e-learning - 0 views

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Many academics see e-learning as "expensive and time-consuming", a survey has found. About half of university staff polled believe that learning technologies are popular with students but only a small proportion of academics are embracing them.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Many academics see e-learning as "expensive and time-consuming", a survey has found. About half of university staff polled believe that learning technologies are popular with students but only a small proportion of academics are embracing them.</div>

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THE IMPENDING DEMISE OF THE UNIVERSITY - 0 views

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Wikinomics author Don Tapscott looks at the future, or not, of universities

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13 More Tips to Help You Record Narration Like the Pros - The Rapid eLearning Blog - 0 views

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You don't need to be a professional audio engineer to record narration. However, you do want to pay attention to what you're doing and do the best job possible

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">You don't need to be a professional audio engineer to record narration. However, you do want to pay attention to what you're doing and do the best job possible</div>

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