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A new MOOC from Scott Lo in Japan. Details to come but from the title - Sock Puppetry - it seems we could be looking at the illusion that art creates with a bit of digital literacy on the side. Then again, it could just be an elaborate ruse!

"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below."

"An innovative resource designed to cultivate 21st century fluencies,while fostering engagement and adventure in the learning experience. This resource is the collaborative effort of a group of experienced educators and entrepreneurs who have united to share their experience and ideas, and create a project geared toward making learning relevant to life in our new digital age. Our purpose is to develop exceptional resources to assist in transforming learning to be relevant to life in the 21st Century. At the core of this project are our Curriculum Integration Kits - engaging, challenge based learning modules designed to cultivate the essential 21st Century Fluencies within the context of the required curriculum."

"When I heard a teacher tell me that they were creating recorded lectures for courses as homework assignments and spending classroom time on discussions and more active learning, I knew right then the value of the lecture capture tools."

"'The creation of video and the publishing of video is getting to the point where it's almost as easy as creating a written assignment,' says Kyle D. Bowen, Purdue University's director of informatics."s recent experience.

Like Votapedia, create audience polls that can be answered using SMS, Twitter, website etc.

Ad hoc backchannel that doesn't need users to create accounts or be on Twitter etc.

"I am looking for digital files--written words, poems, original music, audio recordings, videos, animations, anything you can create that says something about this moment in time, what you are doing, or the place you are at, you or the sounds in your back yard--or even what you had for lunch today. Capture your moment!"

Openclipart is the largest collaboration community that create, share and remix cliparts. All cliparts are released to the Public Domain so they can be freely used in any project for free.

"The Mozilla Foundation and Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU), among others, are working to create an alternative - and recognized - form of certification that combines merit-earned badges with an open framework. The Open Badges Project will allow skills and competencies to be tracked, assessed, and showcased."

May not have quite the same clout with the NZQA :) but though you guys might be interested in this...

Web2Rights is a JISC project, funded from 1st November 2007 - 31st March 2009, whose purpose was initially to develop practical, pragmatic and relevant Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and other legal issues toolkits to support the projects funded within the JISC Users and Innovation Programme (U&I) in their engagement with next generation technologies.  The Web2Rights team, comprised of lawyers, consultants, learning technologists and pedagogic experts focussed upon the need to address cultural and practical obstacles in engaging with Web2.0, IPR and other legal issues. Working in close collaboration with JISC Legal and focussing upon the specific issues raised by the U&I community of users, they have created a number of resources to address a variety of legal issues which might arise.

A Ministry of Education resource described as "Digistore is a storehouse of digital content to support learning across the curriculum, from early childhood through to senior secondary." Unfortunately it seems that you have to create an account to log-in and then resources are only available to NZ educators. Doesn't seem to sit well with the Open Govt, Open Content being espoused elsewhere in the NZ govt.

Mindful Infotention - A combination of learned attention skills and online information tools. Created in a rich Concept Map.

Zeega is an open-source HTML5 platform for creating interactive documentaries and inventing new forms of storytelling. Zeega will make it easy to collaboratively produce, curate and publish participatory multimedia projects online, on mobile devices and in physical spaces. Zeega is in early alpha. Sign up t

Tool to create mashups of video, music and photos. Has a lbrary of clips including BBC.

30 tools to create public or private groups in Twitter

Kete is open source software that you can use to create online areas for collaboration for your community. Write topics and upload images, audio, video, documents. Discuss them all. Link them together. It's been called a "relational wiki" and " a mashup between content management and knowledge managment". It's a fun way to get things done.