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This resource aims to help those making decisions about their use of freely available 'Web 2.0' interactive and collaborate e-learning tools. Each product, site or service described in these pages can be searched or browsed by a specific Activity or the usability/accessibility checks that it passed. The applications have short descriptions and comments regarding their ease of use and functionality. If you are involved in teaching and learning and are wanting to make more use of Web 2.0 services in your e-learning activities, or if you are interested in how Web 2.0 can supplement your existing methods, this section may be useful to you.

Downloadable book with 87 projects. Apparently focussed on school level but worth checking out.

"RecentChangesCamp is an Open Space Technology format unconference focused on wikis and collaborative practices. The conference is named after the "Recent changes" feature that is found in most wikis. Recent Changes Camp follows an unconference model of being free to participants and an Open Space model in having a program that is determined on-site by participants. Check out the session ideas people are thinking about for Boston and Canberra."

"Columbia's Turnitin subscription, managed by CUIT, is used primarily by students to check and repair their own work prior to handing it in to the instructor."

"In 2008, HIT Lab NZ released the initial version of BuildAR, which provides the basic functionality required to construct augmented reality scenes. You can load a single 3D model onto each marker, and arrange the models using the graphical editing tools or the simple user interface. This version of BuildAR has continues to be free for non-commercial use. For commercial use, or to take advantage of an updated feature set, check out BuildAR Pro."

Create amazing social media slideshows slidestaxx enables you to gather various social media into a beautiful slideshow for your blog, website or directly on slidestaxx. It's fast, easy and free! Check out some stacks other people have created with slidestaxx in our showcase. 

Academics working out examples as in a masterclass. Haven't had time to check out yet.

Is that site up or down? Or is it just me that can'y access it? Quick checker.

JISC output to support thinking about learners needs, abilities, backgrounds in regard to ICT & digital literacy. "Think about the learners at your institution, or in the context for which you have a digital literacy role/responsibility. What do you know about their current access, skills and strategies for learning in a digital environment? What challenges do you think they face in becoming digitally literate?You can also use these questions with teaching staff to check their knowledge of their own students' ICT use, and to prompt thinking about how they support learners in a digital age."

Need to add to this and check MArk's post out.

Maths engine that can connect to Moodle - runs in any real browser. We should check it out.

As we thought - a marketplace app playing on the name. Still need to check out though!

Ephorus - the start of a blog about using a new plagiarism checking tool, Ephorus.

A plagiarism checking tool.

ELearning support pages at U Alaska. Some useful stuff here. Have linked to Teaching Tips but also check out the other pages.

What happened in the meeting? A closing check

Possible camera solution for small rooms? Need to check out.