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"Interpreting the CDW-G 2010 survey summary report, Campus Technology magazine concluded: 'Faculty members and campus IT staff aren't exactly in agreement on the necessity of some technologies in education.'"

Actually tells you how to get all your photos back out of FB, whether you want to stick them in G+ or not.

Coursera prevents other entities using courses as part of some other course elsewhere e.g. at UoW.

Rebuttal to the "Google owns my data" hitting the ether after the release of G Drive

collection of digital literacy links using the 21st. C. literacies model to organise them into categories e.g. visual literacy, critical literacy, tool literacy etc. 

Some great new help in here e.g see sharing docs

A long list of online tools conveniently grouped into like sections e.g. Mindmapping, or E-Safety

"Much has been written about wikis' reliability and use in the classroom. This research bulletin addresses the negative impacts on institutional welfare that can arise from participating in and supporting wikis. The open nature of the platform, which is fundamental to wiki operation and success, enables these negative consequences. A finite user base that can be determined a priori (e.g., a course roster) minimizes the security implications, hence our discussion in this bulletin primarily concerns open or public wikis that accept contributions from a broad and unknown set of Internet users."

Some thoughts on how Coursera might make money - and some insights into how they currently organise e.g. more than $1m per staff member in venture capital available.

some interesting tools I have never heard of e.g. Wolfram Alpha

Universities compared to Domino's pizza in terms of serving up options that are ordered online. A plug for the importance of conversation and how that provides learning - and that online conversation (e.g. twitter) is the new 'game changer'. 

Link your Scoop.It saves with your G+ account.

Different tracks online students take with MOOCs e.g. do the bits which clear up the muddy points in the topic, take the course because the professor is famous, want to find out what MOOCs are like etc. These are the students lumped together as 'drop-outs' and unpacking their experience shows useful learning takes place, but they don't complete the course.

Some scripts for Google Sites e.g. Tables, Newsletters, Slideshow (using Slides), Catalogue, etc.

Info on Apps at Monash - see e.g. Roadmap.

"Digital technologies can be used as tools that facilitate the research process, the organization, collection and distribution of information, communication and collaboration among others. TechLunch wants to provide insight into these purposes by presenting use case scenarios specific to the needs of students, teachers and researchers." Includes a set of recordings and resources on various tools e.g. Zotero, Cmap, Opinion Polling, etc.

Handy if we are setting up forms e.g. conferences form to then export into the Calendar.

Archive your tweets to your server. Open source app. Doesn't talk about being able to select for e.g. hashtags but may be possible to write into the code?

Another social tool for the workplace. Touted as having good mobile stuff via html5. Integrates with G-Apps

A binder of resources from around the web on using G+ in education.