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Short post on finding values for teaching & learning and how they might change at a particular school. Ends with the idea of setting school-wide priorities rather than teacher goals and using that to cause change.

What happens when an idea goes bad. One uni is trying to trademark OpenEd!

"In preparing for a Moodle workshop--where the Moodle Glossary is prominently featured--I ran across some wonderful ideas for using Moodle Glossary as a part of one's virtual classroom."

"In a traditional teaching laboratory environment, students typically arrive at the laboratory to do an experiment without a clear idea of the practical techniques they will be using, the skills they will need, or the chemistry behind the practical."

repository of working papers in Economics.  Seems like an open way of sharing ideas with several Waikato contributors.

"ITSE is one of many academic organizations that is using the virtual world of Second Life to make it possible for global participants to share their knowledge. This brief tour of ITSE island and a snippet from a recent presentation, gives viewers some idea of how educators might leverage this virtual world for learning."

Looks quite neat. * Let your audience decide Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most. * Everyone's voice is heard The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate. * Be creative Include people in your preparation for lectures, interviews and hard decisions or work together to organize feature requests and brainstorm new ideas.

"RecentChangesCamp is an Open Space Technology format unconference focused on wikis and collaborative practices. The conference is named after the "Recent changes" feature that is found in most wikis. Recent Changes Camp follows an unconference model of being free to participants and an Open Space model in having a program that is determined on-site by participants. Check out the session ideas people are thinking about for Boston and Canberra."

Tool that allows you to keep notes on the Kindle but outside of a specific book.

James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws

These web pages provide guidance on good practice for a 'baseline' Moodle course, and offer some ideas and suggestions for developing an 'enhanced' course. They are intended to support staff in meeting the 'minimum requirements' for a Moodle course.

Idea Paint - make everything a whiteboard. Stop being limited by the whiteboard shape and size.

Post from RSC Wales reporting on BBB - includes a reply from one of the developers giving some idea of their roadmap.

"An innovative resource designed to cultivate 21st century fluencies,while fostering engagement and adventure in the learning experience. This resource is the collaborative effort of a group of experienced educators and entrepreneurs who have united to share their experience and ideas, and create a project geared toward making learning relevant to life in our new digital age. Our purpose is to develop exceptional resources to assist in transforming learning to be relevant to life in the 21st Century. At the core of this project are our Curriculum Integration Kits - engaging, challenge based learning modules designed to cultivate the essential 21st Century Fluencies within the context of the required curriculum."

"Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most."<--new-to-me google tool, useful for feedback?

Idea about using AR to teach language.

"Learning in Networks of Knowledge is a new paradigm for higher education, based on the changing nature and form of knowledge work in contemporary digital networked conditions. The LINK site explores and supports this knowledge - network - learning approach. LINK contains dozens of ideas about teaching and learning via the Internet, as well as tools (freely available web-based applications) that you can use."

New blog to me on Digital Literacies. Useful Like the 2 way bridge ideas.

Eric Mazur has swapped the nature of teaching and non-contact time and released it as a software. "The basic idea is that the bulk of information consumption should be done outside the classroom and in-class time should be spent doing guided, measured, optimized peer-to-peer discussion in order to maximize retention of knowledge"

"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?"