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This weeks new Google tool! Take a spreadsheet (Google or Excel) and apply visualisations and pivots without needing to know much about what you are doing. Showed me the Gallery when I first opened - need to click 'New Table' to access your own data.

A great periodic table of lots (all?) Google APIs.

Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye today tabled the Government's undertaking to deliver on its commitment to digital literacy in education.

Analytics and Recommendations block uses charts and tables which are colour coded so students can quickly see they participation. Students can see single analytics about their participation in the course. Teachers can see single, comparative analytics and global analytics (all students together) too. Morover, the block shows recommendations for students about what activities they should work to improve their final grade. It shows too a estimate final grade according with a reference course.

"But I think there are two important things that online universities bring to the table: (1) Broadening access to higher education, and (2) Leveraging technology to explore new approaches to learning."

By this autumn, every university in England will have published a new set of information about every undergraduate course on offer. These Key Information Sets will include data on areas such as contact hours, graduate salaries and student satisfaction. But with little fanfare, one institution has already put itself ahead of the game by displaying information about its graduates in a way that could set a benchmark for the sector. The University of Oxford has created an online tool for comparing data about its graduates' careers and salaries. Tucked away on its main careers website and organised into a set of user-friendly tables, it allows immediate comparisons of the salary and employment status of its alumni from 2008-09 and 2009-10 - undergraduate and postgraduate - sorted by subject area, individual course and even constituent college.

Useful reference on using Fusion Tables

Some scripts for Google Sites e.g. Tables, Newsletters, Slideshow (using Slides), Catalogue, etc.

Put together a coursepack from OERs or your documents. Not a lot of supporting info. Has just been released by CC Canada. "Simply upload your journal articles or other documents. We'll take care of the table of contents, attributions, page numbering, formatting and distribution. For free!"

Lots of ways of charting and visualising data.

"The tools I tested are Delicious, Diigo, Pinterest, PortaPortal, Scoop.It, Sqworl, Symbaloo, WordPress pages, and the WP-Table Reloader plugin."

Wheel of competencies, assessments and supporting technologies with a more useful table describing potential activities and fleshing out the competencies and rationale.

Image of 6 seat group work tables with computer screens

Game examining online privacy. 

How to use Sketchup

Describes a method of managing information and creating knowledge. Table matching concepts to online activities is useful

List of features of various repositories