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What is the Story of Stuff? From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Complicated stuff on linked data / semantic web stuff including Refib=ne, RDF, JSON and REST.

Probably higher level school/undergrad level. Ones I've seen are 'interesting' takes on maths rather than dry lecture type stuff.

The Chronicle with more surface stuff on MOOCs. There's very little to learn about Mooc design except don't make instructions ambiguous (with which I totally agree!)

"(NZ) pupils may soon be able to sit school assessments online when they are ready, rather than waiting for the traditional exam period."

For the searchers among you! Search on Google and get web, mail and Drive results on the one page. At the moment it is only available on personal accounts as a field trial that you can sign up for.

Short video 'tips and and tricks' stuff for Google Apps - created by Google, all videos in the the 4 - 6 minutes range

"Learning Space as Creation Space The next generation of learning spaces will take all the characteristics of an active learning environment-flexibility, collaboration, team-based, project-based-and add the capability of creating and making. Project teams will be both interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary and will likely need access to a broad array of technologies. High-speed networks, video-based collaboration, high-resolution visualization, and 3-D printing are but a few of the digital tools that will find their way into the learning space. The ability to rearrange furniture and technology quickly and easily will be highly desirable. Some project activities will need nothing more than comfortable furniture, food, and caffeine. Others will require sophisticated computational analysis and the ability to do rapid prototyping. Acoustics will be a concern and will need to accommodate a wide range of activities. It seems likely that such space will support more than one team or activity simultaneously. That will be a highly desirable trait, fostering serendipitous discovery and innovation. The ability to quickly and easily capture the group's activities and progress will also be desirable. An emerging class of powerful and effective collaboration tools enables project teams to save and store project elements, resources, concepts, plans, designs, models, and renderings-in short, all the "stuff" that a team might find or make."

Report on plagiarism in NZ unis. Suggests to me big differences in identifying and reporting.

What happens to your social media presence when you die

Tools, methods, resources, activities related to learning design.  Some useful stuff.

Bail relaxed for Kim Dotcom - he's now allowed to swim - like why wasn't he before?

Mike ''MOD'' O'Donnell from TradeMe on why the TPP is bad for copyright and bad for consumers.

Countering the stuff that gets said about Google Apps For Education. A bit long winded but some useful reminders and links.

eportfolio stuff from Warwick Uni

How to do some stuff in Google Sites esp images and video embeds.

Stuff on EdCast which is needed to stream to IceCast servers from Winamp

Some stuff on what makes DS106 work as a space for learning.