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"TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs."

An example of IT Admins deciding what is good for us and getting it spectacularly wrong. Many other examples in the comments too.

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.

Report on the findings of a trial at 3 unis of students using e-book readers. Main comment are that they are ok but rubbish for taking notes in the flexible way we do with paper.

Using the Kaltura video extension for Moodle, teachers can upload and manage rich-media content, such as full lectures in an online course; students can then post video comments, ask questions and create a face-to-face discussion recorded directly from their webcam or other sources.

Long post and comments on the vle vs the ple by John Fontaine, head of 'Platform Evangelism' at BB. Interesting that he appears to view the vle as a transmitter and instructor driven and I wonder if this then justifies the rest of his thinking on the role of technology.

Comments on flaws in the 'instructional design' model of development. From CQU.

Comment on Katz article on academic scholarship in the digital age.

First stable release in 2003 - the following description sounds uncannily familiar! "iPeer is an open source web application application that allows instructors to develop and deliver  rubric-based peer evaluations, to review and release student comments, to build progress report forms online, and to analyze evaluation results. iPeer features a built-in user management system, data import/export, and an easy-to-use installer."

Article suggesting online education can't be as good as a f2f ed - which is then undermined by all the comments from online students.

"So here's something neat that I figured out how to do on Jim's DS106 class (soon to be available on my own course site). As you may know, both sites are syndicating in feeds from students' blogs using the amazing FeedWordPress plugin. We use this plugin all over UMW Blogs to allow faculty to manage course "mother" blogs into which students' blogs are fed."

and some other tips in the comments.

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?

"This knowledge base features learning theories that address how people learn. A resource useful for scholars of various fields such as educational psychology, instructional design, and human-computer interaction. Below is the index of learning theories, grouped in somewhat arbitrary categories. Note that this website is an iterative project and these entries are a work in progress; please leave comments with suggestions, corrections, and additional references."

Croxall prefers Endnote but the early comments suggest he should try again!

Comment suggesting other device agnostic cloud services may be more flexible than iCloud

Interesting post and some great comments on the role of the Khan Academy in education and whether it pedagogically sound.

Suggestions as to why the education system is broken and then the 1st comment offers some suggestions to fix it.

"...Drs. Curto and Laudato describe a technique for providing feedback via rich media capture. Much like comments in the margins of a written assignment, feedback is received at the appropriate time point in the presentation."

"Do you pass back exams, a set of papers or grades on some other student project and offer generic comments on what the class did and didn't do well on the assignment?"