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"Tablet computing and personal electronic devices such as iPads promise to have a dramatic impact on education. This Ning network was created to explore new and innovative ways iPads and other portable devices could be used in schools and colleges."

and some other tips in the comments.

"Web-based lecture technologies cover a range of technologies, including iLecture/Lectopia, for digitally recording lectures for delivery to students online." The other report quoted in the "Online study kills uni" article.

Recommendations to improve search experience - an OU project using library logs - eg "Other students on your course are also searching for ..."  At an early stage but worth watching.

Clever analysis of why the iPad works for people.

Great little Google map mash-up. Start digging a hole through the centre of the Earth and find out where you will appear on the other side.

"Google Reader, a tool which can do wonders, is still unused by people. We all know Google Reader as a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline, but it can also perform various other useful tasks."

Expensive chemistry books (and others!) now free online by a pioneer of open content.

Creative use of the Panopto notes feature to provide teacher feedback on a student's Panopto presentation. Also a useful format for Panopto (and other technoogy) tips.

Blogging can be quite a process. First you may have to do some research, then put your thoughts together, and of course add any necessary screenshots and images. Let's not forget the optimization part (SEO, keywords, etc) and sharing your content on the Web so that others will read it and hopefully share it. With all of these steps involved, blogging can be quite time-consuming and many bloggers get burnt out rather quickly doing these things on a daily basis.

"Tweeting students were found to have a GPA (grade point average) half a point higher than other students."

Comment suggesting other device agnostic cloud services may be more flexible than iCloud

Copyright, stealing, tribute, shoulders of giants. What is the nature of creativity. Lennon writes his take on musical heritage.

Create amazing social media slideshows slidestaxx enables you to gather various social media into a beautiful slideshow for your blog, website or directly on slidestaxx. It's fast, easy and free! Check out some stacks other people have created with slidestaxx in our showcase. 

Some blog posts on using G+ (and some other google stuff)

"'We found no evidence for any discontinuity in technology use around the age of 30 as would be predicted by the Net Generation and Digital Natives hypothesis,' says the report. What the reseachers do find interesting and worthy of further study is the correlation--which is independent of age--between attitudes to technology and approaches to studying. In short, students who more readily use technology for their studies are more likely than others to be deeply engaged with their work."

That last point is pretty powerful. Need to get the data replicated elsewhere as next stage. But as always, different people are different!

"The tools I tested are Delicious, Diigo, Pinterest, PortaPortal, Scoop.It, Sqworl, Symbaloo, WordPress pages, and the WP-Table Reloader plugin."

Post by Dave Snowden on why editing Wikipedia is a good thing whilst being frustrating. Links to lots of other posts he has made about specifics. This is a summary of sorts.

"...the two main activities in a lecturer's job, research and teaching, work against each other." So why not get the students doing research too?

But we stressed the importance of letting go, and I repeated Dan Pink's words from my presentation: "Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement". We explained this would likely prove to be a far more successful approach than imposing a community on the team.  In other words the group needs to "own" its own community.