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Three people from my University of Delaware workshop in June provided links to stories… so i will share them.

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The official announcement... w00t!

The University of Delaware has released the Sakai learning management system (LMS) to UD faculty.

Good article to understand how to organize your life2.0.

Blogs, RSS, IM, Twitter and FriendFeed - the number of sources of sources of information online can feel like it's multiplying exponentially every day. It's easy, natural even, to feel overwhelmed.

The tool I used in class. $45 (single license) or $125 (5 licenses).

The software I have been using for the last 4 years to stimulate classroom engagement. It's a timer and a student or team random picker. Very easy and useful.

Across campus, buzz has been steadily spreading about a new service provided by the university called Sakai. From a link on the university homepage to a Web address listed in various course syllabi, Sakai has surely entered the university's consciousness.

These 25 libraries, in no particular order, demonstrate how libraries have become part of the cutting edge of information management, design and Web technology, and all of them can help you get some ideas on how to bring your library into the future.

A video that compares the Flip with the Vado.

I handle wikivandalism under our school vandalism policy. In this case, I didn't know how to lock pages and a student edited the assignment. By the next period, they were in the principles office dealt with on vandalism charges in the way we handle that -- like writing on the bathroom walls level of vandalism. So, expect wiki vandalism to happen early but catch it early.

It's worth noting that in this particular study "social media" includes text messaging. Combined with blogging and social networking, these three technologies are used by 50% of U.S. adults for communication

In higher ed, there are really three ways I think a wiki can be useful: teaching, research, and administration.

Just because you mechanically can create a blog, it doesn't necessarily make you a blogger.

Mark C. Marino, a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California, has turned his Web page for a writing course he's teaching into a series of modular "widgets" that others can easily drop into their own Web pages.

Sarah Houghton-Jan explores different strategies for managing and coping with various types of informational overload.

A demo of how to use the new web registration system at University of Delaware.

Lester Ray, a development executive with Apple, hosted the afternoon session of UD's Summer Faculty Institute, during which he addressed the frequent divide between technologically savvy college students and traditional lecture hall teaching practices.

Just because 50-minute classroom sessions are the norm on a college schedule does not make that the ideal duration for students outside the lecture hall.