"This user guide is for educational organisations interested in developing open education practices using popular social media. It is based on an analysis of the Otago Polytechnic experience 2006-2009, where a small group of teachers used social media to develop open education practices."

"Here's a look at over 30 content curation tools (mostly free, but some paid/professional tools as well) that will help you cut through the clutter of your information stream to find the gems."

"...the average user has no way of pulling that data out of Twitter or Facebook."

We only had four in our WCELfest2011 tagline!

Interesting use of Inkling market prediction software to poll website vistors. More information at http://markets.nitle.org/

.@DTLTToday discuss @Eric_Mazur's @LCatalytics s/w http://t.co/gwTCXAo #lecture + #clickers + peer instruction #pedagogy (via @philshapiro)

"As firmly as the person at the podium is established in our classrooms, s/he seems even more tenaciously present in workshops and conference sessions... So what [would] you do if you didn't lecture?"

"The most alarming finding in the ERIAL studies was perhaps the most predictable: when it comes to finding and evaluating sources in the Internet age, students are downright lousy."

An update on what some UoW staff are doing: "I [Janey Nolan] worked with Dr Paul Keown and Professor Lex Chalmers setting up on line communities especially for rural teachers in country schools."

Something for WCELfest? Especially if we have schools stream.

"Private feedback has its place in education. We contend, however, that the vast majority of feedback can and should be public."

Myth 1 - Online Learning Is Impersonal Myth 2 - Too Much Going On Myth 3 - My Class Is Unique Myth 4 - Blogs Are for Navel Gazing Myth 5 - Discussion Forums Push on Strings Myth 6 - Online Group Projects Are Impossible Myth 7 - Tech Problems Will Derail Teaching Myth 8 - You Cannot Convey Passion Online Myth 9 - Virtual Classroom as a Literal Translation Myth 10 - Faculty Training Is About Technology

.@GardnerCampbell explains his "Narrate, Curate, Share" #blogging framework http://t.co/DOwTexB

"As students became more competent with online courses, the completion rates increased to match face-to-face completion rates. This may suggest that online courses require time for familiarisation."

"Among the things the two instructors hoped to address with an initial pilot were poor attendance of in-class films and lack of attention to the films among those who did attend."

"The Internet has already disrupted many major industries. It's poised to transform education, too."

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

"'We found no evidence for any discontinuity in technology use around the age of 30 as would be predicted by the Net Generation and Digital Natives hypothesis,' says the report. What the reseachers do find interesting and worthy of further study is the correlation--which is independent of age--between attitudes to technology and approaches to studying. In short, students who more readily use technology for their studies are more likely than others to be deeply engaged with their work."

"Join us for our new webinar series where experts will demystify the world of open educational resources (OER)."

"I am looking for digital files--written words, poems, original music, audio recordings, videos, animations, anything you can create that says something about this moment in time, what you are doing, or the place you are at, you or the sounds in your back yard--or even what you had for lunch today. Capture your moment!"