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Simple with links to some tools.

"TAGS Viewer allows users to browse, explore, and search a Twitter archive. As a backend, it requires Martin Hawksey's Twitter Archive Google Spreadsheet (TAGS). TAGS provides a free, non-technical method of archiving tweets for a given hashtag, which can be particularly useful for capturing a conference's backchannel. This application is contained in a single HTML file and has no server dependencies, which makes it easy to host anywhere: just upload a single file (this one!) and you're done. Or, if you don't need to share it with anyone, just double-click the file on your hard drive to open it in your Web browser. Configuration is as simple as supplying a Google Spreadsheet URL"

Interesting discussion tool, lightweight & simple.

Short, simple article on passwords basically saying same as xkcd.

Simple video on setting up a function based calculation in the Moodle gradebook (eg select the max and min scores from a range)

Dragontape is an online tool which enables you to add title pages to Youtube clips, do simple edits and stitch together several Youtube clips into a single entity. One step closer to making Youtube a genuine OER (remix, rework, redistribute).

"Music and movie industries, you're well-known for being incredibly short-sighted, greedy and stupid. I'm not going to argue with that, because you really are."  A post explaining why piracy happens in simple terms.

"Microsoft Research Cliplets is an interactive app that gives users the power to create "Cliplets" -- a type of imagery that sits between stills and video, including imagery such as video textures and "cinemagraphs". The app provides a simple, yet expressive way to mix static and dynamic elements from a video clip."

A few months ago, I discovered MentorMob (MM), which allows any user to create "learning playlists" to share or open up to other fellow learners who might want to add or edit the content in the playlist. The end product is the ultimate learning tool for students, especially when the playlist is populated with high-quality content, including visual, audio and interactive elements. MM playlists make sense because they "scaffold" learning in a very visual and intuitive way. The lists are simple to make, follow, edit, co-author and collaborate. "

Quick and simple way to get started and use Twitter with your class

Free book on future of the internet download under read now) Bunch of essays about impact of internet on society, how internet should be managed, privacy, intellectual property etc . Various perspectives but published by a libertarian think tank. Critical of Lessig for proposing controls on internet development. Some good reads (Dean, beware - lawyers). Also check out the video presentations - panel discussions - some fascinating stuff. This book is both a beginning and an end. Its publication marks the beginning of TechFreedom, a new non-profit think tank that will launch alongside this book in January 2011. Our mission is simple: to unleash the progress of technology that improves the human condition and expands individual capacity to choose.

Graphic on some key aspects of the role a university takes and offers.

Creating a simple display in Google Sites of student work in Google Drive.

Simple poster aimed at kids and very commonsense to share with anyone.

Tell people that you have faith in them. It helps - lots!

The simple act of copying can increase your creativity. Here are 7 foundational elements of copying.

"A faculty member's real value is in their interaction with students... Faculty should focus on this aspect of their teaching and automate as much as possible the simple content delivery part."

Simple digital story telling tool

Video by Google on how their search engine works. Simple but useful.