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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.

The Writing Researcher is a new open activity which aims to bring researchers from different disciplines, institutions and countries together to share their writing and provide peer-feedback ina rather informal, friendly environment. ... As it reads in the blog we have set up for the project, The Writing Researcher: Inspiration, Creativity, Fluency  aims to: 1. promote and support writing as a creative, scholarly and collaborative enterprise, 2. encourage discussion and peer feedback in a distributed, shared environment, 3. establish an international, inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural peer network.

"OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to instantly set up a conference in the Web. You can use your microphone or webcam, share documents on a white board, share your screen or record meetings."

Setting up Google Apps guide

Supported by the principal bodies and agencies in UK post-compulsory education, the Committee was set up in February 2008 to conduct an independent inquiry into the strategic and policy implications for higher education of the experience and expectations of learners in the light of their increasing use of the newest technologies.

A good set of diagrams that folk have come up with to describe their (or their vision of a) personal learning environment - PLE

"The idea of livestreaming and setting up a TV station for ds106 has been back on my mind a lot recently in light of the video assignments."

Series of posts on setting up Google Calendar. Not sure yet how much it fits our context.

I get tired of articles that say the native immigrant idea is complete nonsense because we didn't wake up one day and discover a new set of people. Pontefract keeps noting that there are differences across ages but no sharp divides. Well? Was technology created on the 8th day and we have BT and AT?? 

How to set up a group in G Apps.

'Full' text (google book) of research on setting up students as researchers to enable their learning.

This wiki is set up to catalog university-based open educational resources projects. Currently we are focusing only English-speaking OER projects.

Article on the difficulty of getting academics to use lecture recording - so much so that Purdue has set up automatic recording!