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"Archi is a free, open source, cross-platform tool and editor to create ArchiMate models."

"Zeega is an open-source HTML5 platform for creating interactive documentaries, open archives and inventing new forms of storytelling. Zeega makes it easy to collaboratively produce, curate and publish participatory multimedia projects online, on mobile devices and in physical spaces. Zeega is in early alpha."

Using social platforms to share - refers to research a lot.

"Teamie is a cloud-based social platform that makes learning collaborative & fun, enables educators to engage & teach, and drives performance & behavior."

Open learning platform. Tutorial and social based. Not tried yet.

Interesting post from the always interesting Michael Feldstein on BB shaving bits of the LMS to run as stand alone services in the cloud. The only core bits of an LMS are the gradebook and identity management...

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.

Minor infringements in OER platforms could close the whole system down.

Apple to move into providing ebook creation tools?

"Much has been written about wikis' reliability and use in the classroom. This research bulletin addresses the negative impacts on institutional welfare that can arise from participating in and supporting wikis. The open nature of the platform, which is fundamental to wiki operation and success, enables these negative consequences. A finite user base that can be determined a priori (e.g., a course roster) minimizes the security implications, hence our discussion in this bulletin primarily concerns open or public wikis that accept contributions from a broad and unknown set of Internet users."

Google hurriedly introduced business/brand pages feature into its latest social networking platform Google Plus (Google+) on Monday, to serve the equivalent of the ever popular Facebook Pages. It intends to serve as a means of promoting businesses and brands, whereas such feat is only attainable with great pool of users on hand.

"Key Takeaways Education built around digital portfolios not only ties together various student-generated artifacts into a coherent whole but also creates an environment in which technology use has a clearly identified purpose. Hundreds of services provide free hosting and website creation tools and are ideal platforms for digital portfolios because they can support just about any type of digital content. Turning consumers of knowledge into producers of knowledge transforms learning into an active experience."

Adelaide Uni change from large lectures to small class teaching.

Open source media platform for installing on your own server

Martin Hawksey slides on using Wordpress plug-ins for the infrastructure of much of the ocTEL Mooc.

Long Storify about a embedded racism and sexism with a US educational reform movement. The real message is that we must stand up what what is right and not allow the perpetrators free rein to the platform.

Tool to support assessment strategy and ensure alignment with learning outcomes (a la Biggs) Would be useful to test with some assessments and see how it matches.

"ipadio allows you to broadcast from any phone to the Internet live.  Phone blog, collect audio data, record and update the world, or simply let your mates know what you're doing - ipadio is integrated with Social Media & Blogging platforms"