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He saw this as summing up the challenge faced by university of which the traditional model has been ownership and sharing stuff only with specific people at specific times. He would argue, on the other hand, that "Free is a hard price to beat".

Many of us who integrate technology into our instruction have an especially difficult time staying focused on learning objectives and digging deeply enough for rigor, even if we don't like to admit it. It's the nature of our jobs. Since we work with entertaining, dynamic tools, it's too easy to become playful and veer off the track, overlooking the learning objectives.

A PLN isn't a particularly new idea; learning networks have existed for a long time. What's new is the reach and extent that's now possible for a PLN, with technology and global interconnectedness providing the opportunity for a much wider, richer and more diverse PLN than ever before.

A Twitter people search engine. Type in a keyword, and refine your search.

Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck. All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.

3 weeks ago, my appreciation of the need to implement web 2.0 technologies into curriculum delivery was limited at best. I would not have considered myself IT illiterate - after all I was reasonably competent on Powerpoint and word processing, used Facebook, had a Flickr account and used I-tunes. Then I read Will Richardson's book for teachers on the Read/Write web and I had a 'Road to Damascus' experience!

Your voice is unique and personal…just like your stories. Use Yodio to add your stories to your photos or presentations, and share these narrated photos with your friends and colleagues.

A theory: Facebook management is acting like a group of cult leaders intent on changing the rest of us into more social, less private people than we might want to be. Maybe all social networking services are trying to do that - but the way Facebook is going about it feels particularly cult-like.

GROU.PS is a platform for social groups to get together. Use it for any purpose. Choose your template and pick all the modules that you want (wiki, blogs, photos, links etc).

Yes, if you're not concerned about editing your work, but just getting it out there, then that's right. YouTube is wonderfully simple and I have pined for a decent audio podcasting site, one that will store your media rather than just allow you to link to it (like Blogger).

LectureScribe was developed by Brian C. Dean at Clemson University. It's a simple tool that lets you write and capture your whiteboard lectures. I'd also like to add that the tool is FREE.

This ECAR research bulletin focuses on institutional intellectual property (IP) policy related to instructional products and systems generally and to e-learning specifically. It contrasts IP policies that apply in face-to-face instructional settings with those in e-learning environments, and it highlights the role that Web 2.0 applications play in those policies.

I'm going to explore taxonomy vs. folksonomy, specifically, tagging on delicious.com and how tagging organizes the web. Bush mentions in his essay the idea of sharing associative trails.

As students continue to use Facebook to connect and communicate in increasing numbers, it has also become common for faculty members to consider the use of this social networking site to facilitate interaction in educational contexts. One of the perennial questions that arises is whether faculty should accept Facebook "friend requests" from students.

Student-Generated Content for Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and YouTube: Leveraging Institutional and Third-Party Efficiencies for New Media Literacy - Jude Higdon / Karen Howell

Registration for the 2009 Summer Faculty Institute -- the premier event for faculty who want an in-depth, hands-on opportunity to work on their technical skills and address their classroom and online instruction needs -- is open until midnight Wednesday, April 15.

After trying out Scribd to share my recent One Page Guide to Twitter I thought it might be handy to upload all the past guides.

It's software that runs on Windows, OS X (universal binary), or Linux (Ubuntu) that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It's not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three.