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100 tools - some for quite specific needs, others more general. Some will be useful more generally e.g it has Diigo.

University ,oving to apps for all students and staff. Includes lots of setup instructions,

Good little video on Critical Thinking and its importance.

Looks quite neat. * Let your audience decide Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most. * Everyone's voice is heard The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate. * Be creative Include people in your preparation for lectures, interviews and hard decisions or work together to organize feature requests and brainstorm new ideas.

Video by Google on how their search engine works. Simple but useful.

One-click access to Moodle files from within MS Office apps. Is this necessarily a good thing? Is it encouraging us to use Moodle as a filing cabinet?

Office add-in for Moodle allows individuals to upload (and download and edit) files directly to moodle from office. "You no longer need to use your web browser when working with Office documents stored in Moodle" is their statement, which is interesting in thaqt everyone else is moving to the web as the platform!

Doesn't quite sound like delishus yet!

Interesting little tool to test the effectiveness of your organisation. Built around large businesses but try it with ours.

Latex editor for Google Docs. Not sure how useful it will be at the mo'

New book on using JS with Moodle

Very interesting post that is probably more about economics than search but nevertheless reveals the dark arts of the search provider!

Changes in reading habits mediated by mobile devices.

Another nail in the coffin of the digital native narrative. Teens are un-appy!

This resource is intended to distil lessons learned from various JISC innovation programmes into a "Good Practice Guide for Sustaining and Embedding Innovations". It is intended to support project steering groups and management teams in further and higher education in decision-making in this area and focuses on: Changing people and culture.Working with existing institutional structures to influence organisational change.Embedding or aligning with strategies, processes, systems, initiatives and services.Creating usable tools and resources (as part of project outputs) to meet stakeholder needs.Developing commercial and open approaches to sustaining and embedding innovation.

Lane Clar keynote at the 2010 ULearn conference

Hugh MacLeod explains why he is concentrating on blogging as a platform that is >his< unlike FB & Twitter.