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Have just found Microsofts version of Google Labs! Check out the sections under Projects to find them. Some interesting stuff.

One-click access to Moodle files from within MS Office apps. Is this necessarily a good thing? Is it encouraging us to use Moodle as a filing cabinet?

Office add-in for Moodle allows individuals to upload (and download and edit) files directly to moodle from office. "You no longer need to use your web browser when working with Office documents stored in Moodle" is their statement, which is interesting in thaqt everyone else is moving to the web as the platform!

Free ebooks.

Latex editor for Google Docs. Not sure how useful it will be at the mo'

"Briss, a cross-platform open-source tool, gives you several ways to trim PDFs to look better on your ereader"--lifehacker

Useful for introductory eLearning workshop (via Ako Aotearoa newsletter)

Videos on teaching online by practitioners. Part of an ALTC project.

Short interviews with experienced online lecturers on a range of topics related to teaching online

Dave Warlick site that gathers together educational podcasts. Listed by subject.

Useful free resource to support PD around online teaching.  Lots of case studies and pedagogy based.

"The study has been framed under the following guiding question: What skills, supports and processes are required by learners in the new ICT distance learning environments to ensure successful learner outcomes?"

Idea about using AR to teach language.

"The BehaviourComposer is a web-based tool designed to support teachers, learners and researchers, including those with little or no programming experience, to build, share, and discuss computer models."

Google Apps support site at Brown Uni.

"I am looking for digital files--written words, poems, original music, audio recordings, videos, animations, anything you can create that says something about this moment in time, what you are doing, or the place you are at, you or the sounds in your back yard--or even what you had for lunch today. Capture your moment!"

The goal of this study is to produce a report with 8-12 case studies which have used social software to support and engage learners, or have embedded the social software within the pedagogy of a course or a programme.

Rob Whitehouse interviews staff at Gloucestershire College about how they are using video and mobile learning.

Map of the free (and nearly free) wifi spots in NZ

The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates, and extracts technical metadata for various file formats. It wraps several third-party open source tools, normalizes and consolidates their output, and reports any errors.

The purpose of this e-book is to explore the use of mobile devices in learning in higher education, and to provide examples of good pedagogy. We are sure that the rich variety of examples of mobile learning found in this book will provide the reader with the inspiration to teach their own subjects and courses in ways that employ mobile devices in authentic and creative ways. This book is made up of a collection of double blind peer-reviewed chapters written by participants in the project New technologies, new pedagogies: Using mobile technologies to develop new ways of teaching and learning.