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"From January 2011 Childnet along with the SWGfL and the IWF will be the UK Safer Internet Centre. One of our jobs as the UK Safer Internet Centre is to get as many people involved in Safer Internet Day as possible! We challenge you to think about the Safer Internet Day theme for 2011: Virtual Lives : It's more than a game, it's your life! It's important for all users of the internet to be aware of the consequences of their online actions - both good and bad! Taking care, being safe and responsible online and offline is an important part of child development. Childnet International is producing a Safer Internet Day resource pack to help educators participate in Safer Internet Day. Below is an outline of the target areas related to this year's theme. We hope this will help educators to get thinking and planning for Tuesday 8 February 2011. Alongside this content will be a short film and banners for VLEs from the European commission promoting Safer Internet Day."

"This the 5th annual survey of learning tools that I have built based on the contributions of learning professionals worldwide. The 2011 list will be finalised on 13 November 2011."<--reason enough to postpone the cool tools workshop until mid November?

I have personally witnessed the amazing influence video has had on my own students' learning during my past nine years in education. 2011 was no exception in the diverse and powerful videos that some of our world leaders, or future world leaders, created. Therefore, I have decided to list the top 10 educational videos I watched this past year

Google by month 2011.

Keynote and invited speaker sessions from the 2011 ALT Conference, 6-8 September, 2011, Leeds.

"DEHub and ODLAA will host the Education 2011-2021: Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning Summit at the Dockside Venue, Darling Harbour, Sydney, from 15-18 February, 2011"

At school or college? Have an idea to change the world? ITU Telecom World 2011 brings together thousands of influential delegates from the telecommunications and technology industries to discuss what steps need to be taken to get more of the world connected. And they need your help! We are inviting 10,000 global school children (8-18)  to design the innovations that could make a real difference to their world.(((( Sign up your school or class now, and your students can start influencing thousands of decision-makers in information and technology communications.

Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2011

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/13/kaplan-letter-wrong/#.TpeGO3qY-hI.email Part of a conversation about plagiarism as a writing form.

A long list of edtech related conferences for 2011

Whirlwind tour through Social Media in pictures. Killer quote is that in late 2010 & 2011, the world went mobile.

What demos are bad for learning. Make students confused instead!

"I've been testing the alpha release of CaPRéT , a tool that aids attribution and tracking of openly licensed content from web sites. According to the Caprét website. When a user cuts and pastes text from a CaPRéT-enabled site: The user gets the text as originally cut, and if their application supports the pasted text will also automatically include attribution and licensing information.The OER site can also track what text was cut, allowing them to better understand how users are using their site." The attribution below was automatically added when I pasted in the text above. Interesting indeed and some good stuff happening in this space. Testing CaprétSource : http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2011/08/17/testing-capret/License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Author: Phil Barker, JISC CETIS

Uruguay does OLPC and gives laptop to every child. What change has it brought? Link from M Brechner, ALTC 2011 Keynote.

"The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries' performance."

""Technology Outlook" explores the impact of emerging technologies on teaching, learning, research or information management in UK tertiary education over the next five years, (from 2011)"

"The report found that 2.1 million online users in New Zealand watched online video in February 2011, representing 77 percent of the total online population. Google Sites led the market as the top online video property, driven largely by viewership at YouTube.com."

Terry anderson & Jon Dron on openness in education