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Queen's University Belfast have a website which is provided for students to show evidence of learning and skills learnt from extra-curricular activities and achievements. "Many activities you participate in - whether you serve as a Course Rep or have a part-time job or are engaged in voluntary work - may be allowing you to acquire important employability skills such as teamwork, leadership, communication and commercial awareness.  The Degree Plus Award allows these skills and this experience to be formally recognised" The Award is awarded by the University and is a 'value added' item which students can get in addition to their formal qualification. 

Google and the AND or the OR or the Plus + Search changes but also instructive on the attitude and way that Google makes decisions about change.  It might be really important to you but being part of 10% of a user base that likes versus 90% who don't like or are indifferent means you've lost.

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.

Create announcements in Sites from a calendar. Plus access lots of other tips on working in Apps.

Tony Hirst on Google Search Plus and how librarians might game the system (as well as why GS+ is bad).

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

A development framework for building iPhone (or mobile?) apps for education. This is a review which notes it is a low barrier to entry, is simple (this is a plus and minus point) and mentions adding RSS, lectures, images, links, event lists and YouTube to your schools app.

Seems like this is a paid for app rather than something we build ourselves. They build and then we can use their CMS to add / change content. Aimed at marketing so maybe we should pass it to them.

Actually tells you how to get all your photos back out of FB, whether you want to stick them in G+ or not.

Google FAQ

Clark looks at one of Blooms less known findings (as well as the taxonomy) where he compared the lecture, formative feedback lecture and one-to-one tuition.

Become a @Google internet power searcher in six 50-minute free online classes starting July 10. Register now http://t.co/828Ydszx #yam

A good opportunity to see Google+, Hangouts, groups etc. used in an open course, plus you get a certificate :-)

Easy way to make your HoA private. And did you know that you can create a Hangout from YouTube?

All the presentations plus extra resources from 2009 Jisc elearning conference

Cross post from G+ to FB & Twitter using a Chrome extension

"Here's a look at over 30 content curation tools (mostly free, but some paid/professional tools as well) that will help you cut through the clutter of your information stream to find the gems."

Collection of links to websites helpful for teachers. Includes video, twitter, blogging, etc plus sites for new teachers (latter may be US oriented)

Anyone who plans to enable Google+ features on their Google Apps account for work or school should make sure to note the privacy policy before proceeding.