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"Ever wanted to make presentations a more interactive, Web 2.0 experience? The PowerPoint Twitter Tools prototypes are now available"

Learning is a central focus of the Athabasca University e-Lab.  Discover many digital research tools and online resources in the e-Lab.

"Top 25 Back to School Web 2.0 Tools/Sites "

web accessibility tool that ensures both static and dynamic content 

MAGpie (Media Access Generator) free caption- and audio-description authoring tool for making multimedia accessible to persons with sensory disabilities. 

"you have probably found yourself needing help when it comes to organizing all your thoughts and ideas that occur throughout your busy day."

"Why not get these tools out in plain sight and use them for good and not evil? "

Critical Commons is a non-profit advocacy coalition that supports the use of media for scholarship, research and teaching, providing resources, information and tools for scholars, students, educators and creators. Critical Commons also functions as a showcase for innovative forms of electronic scholarship and creative production that are transformative, culturally enriching and both legally and ethically defensible.

Edited by Terry Anderson and Fathi Elloumi, is concerned with assisting providers of online education with useful tools to carry out the teaching and learning transactions online.

"Open Badges tool stack that will support the key pieces of the badging experience. This includes defining/designing, assessing, issuing, collecting/managing, sharing and using."

"Twitter as a professional development tool."

In their work, academics build on the research of their peers, but when it comes to pedagogy, this is not always so. This selection of essays hopes to contribute to changing that by exploring how we learn through digital media; the authors ask how both ready-at-hand proprietary platforms and open-source tools can be used to create situations in which all learners actively engage each other and the teacher to become more proficient, think in more complex ways, gain better judgment, become more principled and curious, and lead distinctive and productive lives.

"Teaching and learning with technology can be both challenging and engaging for instructors and students. While technologies make it easier for instructors to create learning opportunities, provide prompt feedback, and improve student engagement with content materials, they also pose challenges. Following are some practical guidelines for using technology in teaching. They may help you manage technology-supported teaching more effectively, avoiding some of the common pitfalls."