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RT @mbrownz: uploaded 'All Black and #Blended: Broken Promises and Serious Challenges...' http://t.co/RgDEMkIl #elearning #ntlt11 #yam

Post describing the use of a Connectivist approach to aggregating, curating and learning from content created as part of the Future of Learning event at Harvard. Very promising stuff.

"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."

Student response system using any device you have to hand with web access. Looks promising.

"All students today are increasingly expected to develop technological fluency, digital citizenship, and other twenty-first century competencies despite wide variability in the quality of learning opportunities schools provide. Social network sites (SNSs) available via the internet may provide promising contexts for learning to supplement school-based experiences. This qualitative study examines how high school students from low-income families in the USA use the SNS, MySpace, for identity formation and informal learning. The analysis revealed that SNSs used outside of school allowed students to formulate and explore various dimensions of their identity and demonstrate twenty-first century skills; however, students did not perceive a connection between their online activities and learning in classrooms. We discuss how learning with such technologies might be incorporated into the students overall learning ecology to reduce educational inequities and how current institutionalized approaches might shift to accommodate such change."

Reviews of Moodle plugins from a usability perspective - Is it simple to install?Is there documentation for it?Does it do what it promises?Is it easy for the teacher/admin to use?Is it easy for the learner/student to use?

overview of four different digital curation tools - Storify, scoop.it, Pearltrees and curated.by

OER and OA - what does it mean for HE? - Terry Anderson

Press release by MS on Gates statements, including reference to Gen-I

Kyle's a student at San Jose State University who was threatened with a failing grade for posting the code he wrote for the course -- he wanted to make it available in the spirit of academic knowledge-sharing, and as code for potential future employers to review -- and when he refused, his prof flew into a fury and promised that in future, he would make a prohibition on posting your work (even after the course was finished) a condition of taking his course.