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Hugh MacLeod explains why he is concentrating on blogging as a platform that is >his< unlike FB & Twitter.

Delicious taking a lot of flak on social media after the relaunch. Will they get it right or fizzle out? More arguments for local storage with web services to join people and artifacts.

Gen Y students using more Web2.0 than older students but generally in passive ways e.g. reading blogs but not writing them.

Digital literacy, OERs, reuse. 

Some backstory to new copyright law in NZ, the file-sharing amendment.

Tii ditched at Canadian Uni. 

Take a photograph of an old photo in context and speak to it.

More than 8000 books online in a free, readable format.

News article on the United Airlines broken guitar saga where the only recourse left to the musician was to pen a song about the debacle and post it on YouTube. United started talking after this!

A University of Toronto professor who got students to grade their peers' work has seen the practice blocked by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Town in Montana requires all job applicants for public jobs to divulge usernames and passwords for all their online log-ins!!

Digital storytelling mashup - audio and map and global. MAybe we should market Stephen? :)

"About 100 years ago, higher education restructured to meet the needs of the industrial age. It has changed little since, even as the internet has transformed life. Another revolution is needed, says Cathy Davidson, to modernise universities and prepare graduates for a 21st-century working environment"

Rob Torrens is using McGraw-Hill's Create service to customise his ENGG180 textbook.

Student blogging

Fear and loathing - this time regarding students accessing the Internet at home on Chromebooks.

Reduce class size to 30-40 and tech single units for 4 weeks improves results