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Interesting service being developed to allow you to mirror your flickr images on your own server / domain. Where is Yahoo going after Delicious. You might want to look at this and other solutions to make sure you aren't burned if Flickr does a Magnolia.

The impact of technology on education among other things. Not had a chance to watch yet ...

An updated presentation by Doug Belshaw on diglit

#Twitter in a #HigherEd Classroom: An(other) Assessment. @AdelineKoh thinks overall, the pros far outweigh the cons (via @MarkSmithers) #yam

Christina Hendricks ponders the CC-BY conundrum - how open are we comfortable with? Citing the example of Apple making bucks from others CC-BY work and adjusting the text she explores the dilemmas of adding NC, ND & SA to the deed.

Very interesting.

Some students took pictures of exam papers and left them for others to see.

Great article by 15yo on the role of technology in her learning. Some good takeaways.

Put together a coursepack from OERs or your documents. Not a lot of supporting info. Has just been released by CC Canada. "Simply upload your journal articles or other documents. We'll take care of the table of contents, attributions, page numbering, formatting and distribution. For free!"

One view of New Orleans 10 years after Katrina. Compare with other view saved in this group.

One view of New Orleans 10 years after Katrina. Compare with the other site in this group Concerned with "digital literacy?" Consider offering these 2 sites for serious discussion http://t.co/cFdtwnymOc vs. http://t.co/nm7peq9pfv

George Siemens catches the mood that Audrey Watters, Jim Groom and others have been pushing out. Technology is too shiny and we forget the humans that we work with at the peril of developing automatons and throwing away people and creativity.

The University of Oregon is the latest to pilot a WPMU-powered blogging community. Convenient links to other similar North American examples. Something for WCeL to pilot?

UK HE site looking at how experiences of technology use can be represented so that these experiences can be used by others. It's not about 'language'.

"Create a feed from a device, building, environment or sensor connected to the internet and store, share & graph its datastreams in realtime.. Access realtime & historical data from devices, buildings, environments or sensors to control other environments, embed graphs in websites, trigger actions, etc..."

Some great tips on using Google Apps as part of Apps deployment plus other resources on deployment from there.

OCW Finder helps people find free online courses called OpenCourseWares (OCWs). Universities and other OCW providers can register their courses with OCW Finder to help people find them.

Caroline Haythornthwaite, Richard Andrews, Michelle M. Kazmer, Bertram C. Bruce, Rae-Anne Montague, Christina Preston. 2007. - Interesting article and I we should look at some of these carefully.  Also some other good stuff in the journal.

"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.

"It is at once a statement of principle, a statement of strategy and a statement of commitment. It is meant to spark dialogue, to inspire action and to help the open education movement grow. Open education is a living idea. As the movement grows, this idea will continue to evolve. There will be other visions initiatives and declarations beyond Cape Town. This is exactly the point. The Cape Town signatories have committed to developing further strategies, especially around open technology and teaching practices."