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Some slides on using Twitter in education - meant to be part of a tutorial lesson - OK.

A guide to running meetings small and large in Second Life

The future of information and freedom compared - Huxley & Orwell

Research report on using a micro-blogging platform for course enhancement, as an LMS and as an ePortfolio by Holotescu, C. & Grosseck, G. (2008)

"To meet the goal of "preparing people for an ever-changing world", instructional programs need to apply strategies that focus on the development of critical thinking, problem solving, research, and lifelong learning. Those goals require a sociocultural approach to instruction emphasizing learning from experience and discourse. Sociocultural instructional designers question the applicability of traditional ID models because their molecular approach focuses on controlling the learner and environment, which often leads to inert knowledge. This article develops a sociocultural ID model and compares views of learning, roles of learners and teachers, instructional strategies, and the use of tools with the traditional ID approach."

'This Web page offers a variety of resources to help explain and evaluate the educational potential of tools designed for online collaborative work on documents. We focus, in particular, on college and university use of "Google Docs & Spreadsheets." '

Google OS

Calendar, email, docs OS wonder what will come next

Long list of extensions for Google Wave

Nice workflow: Googledocs-->Wordpress-->InDesign

Some stuff that Google makes..... A list.

Over 300 links to teaching continuity and related resources, nearly all from US universities.

How to work remotely.

List of tools with links. Most not directly relevant where we already have options eg via Moodle. If we have extended online teaching then some of these will be useful for those on the front of the adoption curve.