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New screen reader from Google. This looks important as it saves on licenses for JAWS and apparently works better in Docs than JAWS.

Sync Dropbox and Google Doc ( apparently!)

List of free Youtube alternatives for educational video - although in reality a lot of them are front ends for Youtube videos on a particular topic or category

"...I've been musing on how I integrated social media [twitter, wikis, zotero, google wave & docs] into my classes" via Stephen Downes who noted "you can't just take these new technologies and cram them into an old-word [sic] course"

The New techs amendment to the NZ Copyright Bill 2009

"The development of the information society and the widespreaddiffusion of information technology give rise to new opportunities for learning. At the same time, they challenge established views and practices regarding how teaching and learning should be organised and carried out. Higher educational institutions have been using the Internet and other digital technologies to develop and distribute education for several years. Yet, until recently, much of the learning materials were locked up behind passwords within proprietary systems, unreachable for outsiders. The open educational resource (OER) movement aims to break down such barriers and to encourage and enable freely sharing content."

Adding G-docs to Moodle

Aimed at K12 but useful to refer to.

Article that discusses the impact of the internet on reading habits the ability to engage in deep reflection

'This Web page offers a variety of resources to help explain and evaluate the educational potential of tools designed for online collaborative work on documents. We focus, in particular, on college and university use of "Google Docs & Spreadsheets." '