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"LectureTools is a student response system that also allows students to take notes linked with the slides and videos presented in class, answer instructor generated questions and pose questions to the instructor. All notes, questions and activities are instantly synchronized with the LectureTools web application."

This aims to be a comprehensive list of links to Open Source Flash projects, both those hosted on OSFlash and elsewhere. Note: This list does not include tools that are not open source.

This aims to be a comprehensive list of links to Open Source Flash projects, both those hosted on OSFlash and elsewhere. Note: This list does not include tools that are not open source.

"Writing notes with a pen and paper helps you remember more, whereas typing gives you greater quantity of notes."

A rash of note sharing services are developing, some 'official', some not, some for profit, some not. Has some of the usual 'terrible' quotes embedded.

"Share your note taking with everyone else at the conference!"--something for WCeLfest2012? Wish I'd thought of it!

Yeah - wish we had! Let's go for it in 2012. Was a complaint that there weren't enough tweets about and I know we all got tied up with making it run. Let's make it a feature.

Making notes in pictures - graphic recording, doodling, what you will.

Uses Text to Speech to grab the speaker notes and put a voice to your presentation

Interesting authoring tool. Anyone want to write a book and try it out? :) Noted as a possible alternative to iAuthor

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. 

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

Ignore the start about Stanford pioneering moocs. Notes that they have developed 2 new platforms for running their moocs, one of which supports group work.

Jon Evans releases two novels as free ebooks. Both had previously been paid print releases. As a side note, both are thrillers - Invisible Armies is about hackers, anti-corporate protestors, globalization, and the surveillance society; Swarm is about fleets of UAVs in The Wrong Hands

(Note - free ebook version) - At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with everyday life. Expansive copyright laws and digital rights management technologies sought to shut down new forms of copying and remixing made possible by the Internet. International laws expanding patent rights threatened the lives of millions of people around the world living with HIV/AIDS by limiting their access to cheap generic medicines. For decades, governments have tightened the grip of intellectual property law at the bidding of information industries; but recently, groups have emerged around the world to challenge this wave of enclosure with a new counter-politics of "access to knowledge" or "A2K." They include software programmers who took to the streets to defeat software patents in Europe, AIDS activists who forced multinational pharmaceutical companies to permit copies of their medicines to be sold in poor countries, subsistence farmers defending their rights to food security or access to agricultural biotechnology, and college students who created a new "free culture" movement to defend the digital commons. Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property maps this emerging field of activism as a series of historical moments, strategies, and concepts. It gathers some of the most important thinkers and advocates in the field to make the stakes and strategies at play in this new domain visible and the terms of intellectual property law intelligible in their political implications around the world. A Creative Commons edition of this work will be freely available online.

Article wondering about the lightness of offerings in the Mooc space. 1 comment notes the lightness of the content too.

See esp slides 20 and 35 onwards about the unmeasured value in open source.

collaborative essay about MOOCs co-authored by multiple participants. Notes difference between and xMOOC and a cMOOC. 

Notes from Audrey's keynote at OpenEd13 critiquing open education.

"...I've been musing on how I integrated social media [twitter, wikis, zotero, google wave & docs] into my classes" via Stephen Downes who noted "you can't just take these new technologies and cram them into an old-word [sic] course"

Short Herald article noting Wikipedia use at Canterbury.