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"Blogs are one of the oldest components of the web 2.0 toolkit, but their strengths as an instructional tool are still being discovered."

The classic 1945 article describing the Memex machine - a pre-cursor to hypertext linking and the web.

A long list of online tools conveniently grouped into like sections e.g. Mindmapping, or E-Safety

"India's clampdown on its netizens is set to continue after its government revealed it is setting up a National Cyber Co-ordination Centre to monitor all web traffic flowing through the country - in the name of national security"

RT @googlechrome: ChromeVox, a screen reader in Chrome, brings visually impaired users new levels of web access: http://t.co/oulGKt5j #yam

Project to develop mark-up / annotation tools that are web based and collaborative.

you can upload videos for this web page activity -as well as link to Youtube or use existing videos already in the Vialogues library

"The concept behind My Resource Cloud is that each educator tailors interactive content to suit the needs of their own learners.   My Resource Cloud consists of a number of resource sections: My Language Cloud, My Math(s) Cloud, My Science Cloud and My ICT Cloud. My Resource Cloud allows users to integrate web, printed, mobile and social media based technologies to help motivate learners."

"LectureTools is a student response system that also allows students to take notes linked with the slides and videos presented in class, answer instructor generated questions and pose questions to the instructor. All notes, questions and activities are instantly synchronized with the LectureTools web application."

"Securely self-hosting your websites, email, files and more has never been easier (or cheaper!). Decentralize your web and reclaim your privacy rights while keeping the conveniences you need."

"Key Takeaways Education built around digital portfolios not only ties together various student-generated artifacts into a coherent whole but also creates an environment in which technology use has a clearly identified purpose. Hundreds of services provide free hosting and website creation tools and are ideal platforms for digital portfolios because they can support just about any type of digital content. Turning consumers of knowledge into producers of knowledge transforms learning into an active experience."

presentation software available for iPad or on the web - looks pretty cool

Looks like a useful set of papers on learning and teaching online - design, tutoring, mobile, communities, assessment, social, etc

Nine evidence-based elearning guides:Tutoring on-line; Web-based course design; Learner acceptance of on-line learning and e-learning; Learning objects and repositories; Learning using mobile and hand-held devices; On-line communities; Technology-supported assessment; Learning environments; Using social software in learning.

"Barnes & Noble continues to makes inroads into the education, um, space. It just announced that it has teamed up with Blackboard, the Web site/software suite that is used in colleges all over the U.S."

Hey guys. Thought I'd share a link with yaz. You probably forgot I was still in the group. ;-)

Post questioning whether effort should be put into developing mobile apps for platform specific devices. Includes stats from UK Unis on website access by platform.

Comment on the post digital discussion held alt f-altc including a video summary. This discussion topic is important as we try and figure out how elearning will (is) become(ing) normalised.

Papers and presentations by Matthew Allen at Curtin. Some good stuff on the place of the internet and teaching in a web research area.

Some useful links and instructions on web gadgets, many of which can be used in Google Sites.

Create easy flashcards using Google Docs and get them on your puter or phone.

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases. Version 2.0 introduces a new extensions architecture, a reconciliation framework for linking records to other databases (like Freebase), and a ton of new transformation commands and expressions.