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Lou McGill post on OERs - doc linked at page bottom.

Apart from the name dropping, there are a couple of interesting links. 

Criticism of the scramble by universities into moocworld and the rhetoric about them being the saviour of HE. Find some of the argument linking a bit weak.

Simple with links to some tools.

short overview of the differences between digital literacy and digital fluency - also a link to a book on Digital Fluency. Brings in the idea of 'concious competence'. 

Slideshare suggesting an institutional PLE (personal learning environment) and linking that to digital literacy

Mainly tech solutions but they do let you extend what you do with Dropbox, esp. Symbolic links.

Hackpad - simplest wiki ever to use and co-author with some 'quick link' features 

"With this feature, educators can use, tweak, or completely redo any video lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on a TEDTalk or any video from YouTube. How? Just plug the video in and start writing questions, comments, even quizzes - then save the lesson as a private link and share with your students. The site allows you to see who's completed the lessons and track individual progress. It's still in beta, but we're so excited about this feature we had to share."

"Just click the button above to start recording. We will give you an mp3 you can save, and a link you can share with anyone. "

List of links to academic blogging how-to's particularly with multiple authors.

website that links to a lecturer's laptop giving a score for how many students are confused - a 'confusometer'. Students can click the 'understood' button if they understand the followup explanation. Works with iPhone, laptop or tablet browser. 

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. 

Rationale, pedagogy and links for using audio in HE. Note elements of intimacy, reducing transactional distances.

"Late Friday, the federal district court in Nevada issued a declaratory judgment that makes is harder for copyright holders to file lawsuits over excerpts of material and burden online forums and their users with nuisance lawsuits." The judgment - part of the nuisance lawsuit avalanche started by copyright troll Righthaven - found that Democratic Underground did not infringe the copyright in a Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper article when a user of the online political forum posted a five-sentence excerpt, with a link back to the newspaper's website. 

"Lemontree automatically gathers information about your activities within the library when you link it to your library card. So when you visit library, when you bring books back or even when you log in to an e-resource, your actions - provided you've registered with us -will register on Lemontree and earn you points"

Link to Danah Boyd video from Webstock on the attention economy and how social media can perpetuate the fear of missing something.

Set of links to SoMe resources for HE.

Collection of mlearning resources & links

Countering the stuff that gets said about Google Apps For Education. A bit long winded but some useful reminders and links.