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Review of the Asus tablet running Android - looks good and up with the iPad.

Series of posts on setting up Google Calendar. Not sure yet how much it fits our context.

This week the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of opencourseware. Are universities about credentials or research? Are they a repository of knowledge? It's important, O'Reilly argued, if you want to be innovative "to think about what job you do for your customers (for your students) and not just think about how you do that job today but why you do it."

"Concern is growing among so-called distance students, providers of distance education, and Maori. It is that the priorities of the Government's Tertiary Education Strategy do not address the societal need, particularly for women, for accessible second chance education opportunities."

"...Twitter simplifies course management by replacing at least three classroom technologies..."

Many recordings from the US NAtional LIbrary from early 20th century. Music and spoken word.

How to use Zotero with Google Books, Scholar and Docs. A bit limited on the latter.

"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?

"...a small but growing cadre of educators trying to exploit Twitter-like technology to enhance classroom discussion."

Idea about using AR to teach language.

UIsing Google Lookup as a function to easily access data.

More school than HE focus.

"Literacy and fluency have to do with our ability to use a technology to achieve a desired outcome in a situation using the technologies that are available to us."

Josh Kim tries to make sense of the Panopto-Pearson deal.

Stuff from a presentation Doug gave to Australian conference.

Downes with at times quite a dense description of digital literacy

Stuff on presenting in a 21C sort of way

This article defines transliteracy as "the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks" and opens the debate with examples from history, orality, philosophy, literature, and ethnography.

Using game design techniques to improve academic engagement.

"The price of college is going to fall, and the Internet is going to cause that fall. The rest of it is really difficult to figure out."