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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.

Slides from her presentation.

Most people dabble in many social networks but eventually settle into only one or two that they keep up with on anything resembling a long-term basis. To narrow it down, though, I'd find out which social networks your friends frequent and sign up for them.

A computer science professor at an Australian University is doing something revolutionary with YouTube - he's offering students who can't attend his classes college credit for watching his videos. Richard Buckland, a senior lecturer at the University of NSW in Sydney, Australia, was frustrated that high school students with a passion for computing and capable of studying at the college level were not able to make the commute to the university fit into their school day.

This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities.

Nearly every form of tangible expression (books, drawings, software, etc.) is subject to some sort of copyright protection. This site offers legal and District-wide guidelines on copyright protection, including direction on when (under the Fair Use Doctrine) copyrighted materials may be duplicated.

In opt-in cultures, employees are more engaged and more productive leading the overall organization to greater success. One could debate whether a successful wiki breeds an opt-in culture or an opt-in culture breeds a successful wiki. But one thing is certain…you can't have one without the other.

Ever wanted to learn a foreign language? Need to memorize facts for your biology and chemistry classes? Or maybe you're a history buff or a trivia fiend who just wants to know everything. We've got tools for creating whatever gets your mind excited, and also for getting this information into your head. You can search the Lists area for something you want to learn. Or even better, just make your own list for yourself and for sharing with others.

At San Juan, microlectures were introduced in a new online degree program in occupational safety in the fall and are now expanding to subjects like reading, tribal governance, and veterinary studies.

Scott Wilson posted this diagram to illustrate one possible conceptual structure for a future personal learning environment (PLE).

Twitter may not function as a broadcast medium as much as it serves as a quick relay service for sharing ideas, thoughts and concerns with others who have similar interests, both locally and at great distances. These practices typically follow the formula, articulated by Barbara Ganley, that we "blog to reflect, Tweet to connect."

Here's a quick video I recorded in which I share some ideas for how to use a Flip video camera in your classroom.

I was recently interviewed by Sheila Coles of the Morning Edition about Twitter. We talked about some of the implications of Twitter for teaching, learning, and privacy. The full interview is available here.

In the era of technology students do not pass notes or try and whisper quietly to one another, they send text messages from their cell phones or Facebook messages to one another if on a computer during class. These actions are done silently and do not cause a disruption in the classroom. But is it distracting? Maybe. Is it beneficial? I think so.

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.

Edit your movies on JayCut

How to use Quick Capture on YouTube.

We are researching without having an impact, speaking without being heard and writing without being read. Furthermore, our tenure and promotion procedures reward publication more than they do awareness of the field, thus pushing up conference attendance, and journal and book submissions.

Today we officially launched PIVOTE as an open source project. PIVOTE is an outcome of the JISC funded PREVIEW project we've been involved with looking at learning in virtual worlds. PIVOTE allows you to author a learning exercise on the web, and then play it on the web, in a virtual world (or worlds), and even on your phone.

The Provost's Office will make the scholarly article available to the public in an open- access repository. The Office of the Provost, in consultation with the Faculty Committee on the Library System will be responsible for interpreting this policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and application, and recommending changes to the Faculty.