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Ideas and opportunities for use of AR apps and tools

List of Wave add-ons

Debate on digital identity with minors.

Stefani paper on student engagement, the need for curriculum redesign and innovative and authentic assessment examples.

"Instead, for Thiel, the bubble that has taken the place of housing is the higher education bubble. "A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed," he says. 'Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It's like telling the world there's no Santa Claus.'"

"..we brainstormed ideas (using an Etherpad shared document) for a video scavenger hunt. Based on the input and suggestions of students, I created the following activity which provides several options for students working in partner teams."

Short piece on the increasing size of FaceBook - now over 800m users - the same as were on the entire Internet in 2004 when FB started.

Audrey Waters questions what free means when it's 'really free' and realises that if it's too good to be true then it's too good to be true!

Not here yet but coming ...

We are witnessing the emergence of something profound: Humans, historically divided by geography, culture and creed, are beginning to connect and collaborate on a scale never seen before. The driving force behind this creative wave are digital tools and networks that allow new forms of collaboration and knowledge creation.

More student response systems with BYOD

"One of these dead ideas is that grading motivates learning. Pike contends that grading motivates getting grades."

Project at UMW to look at using WordPress for eportfolios. This is an outline of needs and early thinking.

"iNACOL has just released a revised version its standards that define high-quality teaching in online and blended-learning program."

"Writing notes with a pen and paper helps you remember more, whereas typing gives you greater quantity of notes."

In a move that could shake the e-learning industry, Pearson today unveiled a new learning management system that colleges will be able to use for free, without having to pay any of the licensing or maintenance costs normally associated with the technology. Pearson's new platform, called OpenClass, is only in beta phase.  By providing complimentary customer support and cloud-based hosting, OpenClass purports to underprice even the nominally free open-source platforms that recently have been gaining ground in the LMS market. "I think that the announcement really marks another, and important, nail in the coffin of the proprietary last-generation learning management system," says Lev Gonick, CIO of Case Western Reserve University.

Framing Digital Literacy as conversation. Not stunning but worth adding to the lists.

Anyone who plans to enable Google+ features on their Google Apps account for work or school should make sure to note the privacy policy before proceeding.

Exploration of narrative, openness, digital storytelling