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How creating MOOCs has flowed back into changes in the on-campus classrooms

"creating and maintaining your reading lists easier than writing them down in a word document."

Create your own fonts and get the css code for them.

"Create a feed from a device, building, environment or sensor connected to the internet and store, share & graph its datastreams in realtime.. Access realtime & historical data from devices, buildings, environments or sensors to control other environments, embed graphs in websites, trigger actions, etc..."

Useful post on the why change doesn't work in unis. We're attacking the wrong thing and need to create context for academics.

Pepperdine Uni has managed access to Google Apps, Yammer, Elluminate, VoiceThread and more to create their online learning environment. This video gives a run down of the features.

Create easy flashcards using Google Docs and get them on your puter or phone.

"Quiz Machine provides a user friendly Windows interface  for creating quiz questions for Moodle."

Jon Beasley-Murray posting a little about the impact of the  "Murder, Madness, and Mayhem" project where his students created featured articles on Latin American literature.

Manage all your Google services from here - and find out that you've got accounts that you forgot you created!

eStudy, a German open source LMS, features student-created activities and courses. Courses can be ordered by the number of activities using clouds. Via Prof Zinke.

"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information."

"Open Cobalt Alpha is the first step in a long term project to make available to all people a free and open source platform for constructing, accessing, and sharing virtual workspaces for research and education. This 3D multimedia wiki technology makes it easy to create deeply collaborative and hyperlinked multi-user virtual workspaces, virtual exhibit spaces, and game-based learning and training environments that run on all major software operating systems. By using a peer-based messaging protocol to reduce reliance on server infrastructures for support of basic in world interactions across many participants, Open Cobalt makes it possible for people hyperlink their virtual worlds via 3D portals to form a large distributed network of interconnected collaboration spaces. It also makes it possible for schools and other organizations to freely set up their own networks of public and private 3D virtual workspaces that feature integrated web browsing, voice chat, text chat, and access to remote desktop applications and services."

Hey guys. Just watched a live session online at Cisco w the developers of this system, still in development, but interesting differentiators vs 2Life, e.g. peer-to-peer, nested worlds, oh and its open-source. Thought yaz might be interested in tracking it.

Looks a good resource but looks like its school level. "The Chemistry Collective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams. It is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon University for college and high school teachers who are interested in using, assessing, and/or creating engaging online activities for chemistry education"

The University of Zurich has been trying to build an editor for eLML for a long time (nearly since the beginning of the eLML project). After two unsuccessful approaches a third approach based on the Mozilla Firefox Plugin technology led to success. In summer 2008 the first beta version of the Firedocs eLML Editor was released. So what is Firedocs? Firedocs is a webbased XML editor for Mozilla Firefox that the University of Zurich has developed for both its Content Management System UniCMS and for eLML, the eLesson Markup Language. Both the UniCMS and eLML are XML-based strategic tools of the University of Zurich and needed an easy to use editor. The Firedocs project has now become an autonomous open source project but it offers extensions for both eLML and UniCMS. The editor provided on this website is already compiled containing the eLML extensions you will need to create and edit eLML lessons.

As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.

This page covers the technical aspects of hosting and pushing out these video clips, how to create and edit video clips and some practical applications. At the bottom of this page I've offered links to obtain video clips, royalty free audio clips and further information covering legal & copyright issues.

Short presentation on having students create podcasts as a class activity

Research looking at whether students tagging resources they create will help them in identifying learning.