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"The WAVE Firefox toolbar provides a mechanism for running WAVE reports directly within Firefox. Because the toolbar reports runs entirely within your web browser, no information is sent to the WAVE server. This ensures 100% private and secure accessibility reporting. The toolbar can check intranet, password-protected, dynamically generated, or sensitive web pages. Also, because the WAVE toolbar evaluates the rendered version of your page, locally displayed styles and dynamically-generated content from scripts or AJAX can be evaluated."  Accessibility checking.

Sheffield Hallam resource on using Tii for academic Integrity and good writing.

Excellent piece on the changing digital landscape and what it means for content. "Look around the next time you're sat on a crowded city bus during commuting hours. Most people's headphones are now plugged into their phones. If by some chance they're not listening to music then they're reading the paper, a book, checking twitter, posing on facebook, writing an email, updating their diary or taking a photo and sticking a vintage filter on it while on their phone, or tablet, or e-reader. And they probably are listening to music while doing all the above."

Can we start to connect this with Moodle? Is it possible? "Now, all of your Google Sites content can be accessed using the Google Data protocol. That means porting over an old webpage or backing up an existing site got much easier! In fact, check out our open-source Google Sites import/export tool that does just that. So what can you do with the Google Sites API? Glad you asked! The API supports most of the functionality found in Google Sites, which includes the ability to: * Retrieve, create, modify, and delete pages and content. * Upload/download attachments. * Review the revision history across a site. * Display recent user activity."

"Now, all of your Google Sites content can be accessed using the Google Data protocol. That means porting over an old webpage or backing up an existing site got much easier! In fact, check out our open-source Google Sites import/export tool that does just that. So what can you do with the Google Sites API? Glad you asked! The API supports most of the functionality found in Google Sites, which includes the ability to: * Retrieve, create, modify, and delete pages and content. * Upload/download attachments. * Review the revision history across a site. * Display recent user activity."

Some interesting stats but doesn't really explain the title although I haven't checked out academic-connect yet.

Some techy checking tools for DNS, message headers and log files.

Interesting way of describing a course. While you're on the Coursera website check out the range of free courses. Should we be worried?

"As we near the halfway point in 2012, perhaps it's time to look back at some of the major stories, trends and developments in social media since the start of the year. Check out this neat infographic that highlights some of the biggest stories in social media, broken down month-by-month starting in January and ending in May. The infographic was created by NowSourcing, a social media firm based in Louisville, Ky."

"We have to do more than check out books. One way a small local library can stay relevant is to become a repository of local information."

Freemium model to support science teaching. Need to check if it is worthwhile and pass on.

Check out this presentation: Gluing together Blackboard, Facebook, & Twitter http://t.co/JCg9xt6s #RSS #SoMe #LMS (via @slideshare)

Slide 50 Bb-->Fb/twitter flowchart is intriguing (obviously substitute Moodle for Bb)

Blog from libertarian perspective on how to manage the internet - some interesting articles - summaries of recent books etc. Check out Adam Thierer posts.

Free book on future of the internet download under read now) Bunch of essays about impact of internet on society, how internet should be managed, privacy, intellectual property etc . Various perspectives but published by a libertarian think tank. Critical of Lessig for proposing controls on internet development. Some good reads (Dean, beware - lawyers). Also check out the video presentations - panel discussions - some fascinating stuff. This book is both a beginning and an end. Its publication marks the beginning of TechFreedom, a new non-profit think tank that will launch alongside this book in January 2011. Our mission is simple: to unleash the progress of technology that improves the human condition and expands individual capacity to choose.

Article about some work by Turnitin on sources used by plagiarised submissions.  It says 'plagiarised' but in the text says 'matched sources'. The Tii report is available on a link to check out details more fully.

Sounds good - need to check.

"...students may be asked a question like 'Are you a runner?' when they log into the learning-management system. If a student checks 'yes,' he or she will thereafter see ads for a certain brand of running shoes on the home page."<--quick Troy write a plugin for Moodle!

RT @tbirdcymru: Cheating in online classes? Check out http://t.co/nmqqTKay- We Take Your Online Class!

Check your writing style to make things easier to understand. Active tool which suggests parts of text to revise for clarity.

Google has been getting aggressive at checking you are a human when doing fancy (complex) searches.

"Over at Wired I found a great article on the ability of authors to self-publish their own books directly to the Sony eReader."