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Long list of extensions for Google Wave

A list of high profile copyright cases pre-2004.

"This page features innovative uses of online collaboration tools (OCTs) for teaching and course management. You can browse the full list or use the search criteria to find the examples most relevant to you. Click on any title for a full description or use the Links to watch short videos of faculty describing their teaching strategies and see examples. For a summary of practical recommendations for effectively implementing OCTs in one's teaching, see CRLT's Occasional Paper No. 31: Teaching in the Cloud: Leveraging Online Collaboration Tools to Enhance Student Engagement."

Useful list of myths / misconceptions about copyright and fair use and education.

Post that includes lists of public domain sites for images, music, etc.

A list of 8 types of Mooc from Donald B Clark

Good list of resources for finding OER

Infographic on the 20 best LMS although the infographic really seems to be about the 20 'most popular' LMS systems as criteria for 'best' are not listed... Note that Moodle is No.1 but the surprise is Edmodo which comes in at No.2. 

Good list of alternative feedback approaches.

Comprehensive list of web-based presentation tools with the first five being Googledocs, Slideshare, Voicethread, Animoto, Glogster 

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

List of vids

Coursera & Udacity courses

List of free Youtube alternatives for educational video - although in reality a lot of them are front ends for Youtube videos on a particular topic or category

An article on appropriation and copyright that has a long list of comments that are worth reading just to see the ocean of different understandings that exist around the copyright space.

"What factors are most important when evaluating a specific IT collaboration? To answer this question, the authors asked an experienced group of IT leaders to analyze collaborations with which they had direct experience and to identify the most important success factors for those activities. The dozen individuals who agreed to participate in telephone interviews represent more than 300 years of experience in higher education. The authors then reviewed the results of the telephone interviews and consolidated and summarized them to create a list of the 12 most important success factors identified by the participants."

A few months ago, I discovered MentorMob (MM), which allows any user to create "learning playlists" to share or open up to other fellow learners who might want to add or edit the content in the playlist. The end product is the ultimate learning tool for students, especially when the playlist is populated with high-quality content, including visual, audio and interactive elements. MM playlists make sense because they "scaffold" learning in a very visual and intuitive way. The lists are simple to make, follow, edit, co-author and collaborate. "

I have personally witnessed the amazing influence video has had on my own students' learning during my past nine years in education. 2011 was no exception in the diverse and powerful videos that some of our world leaders, or future world leaders, created. Therefore, I have decided to list the top 10 educational videos I watched this past year