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Includes click through to paper and HE engagement with Social Media.

Openclipart is the largest collaboration community that create, share and remix cliparts. All cliparts are released to the Public Domain so they can be freely used in any project for free.

Facebook aims to change the social graph and resist Google+

The goal of this study is to produce a report with 8-12 case studies which have used social software to support and engage learners, or have embedded the social software within the pedagogy of a course or a programme.

JISC output to support thinking about learners needs, abilities, backgrounds in regard to ICT & digital literacy. "Think about the learners at your institution, or in the context for which you have a digital literacy role/responsibility. What do you know about their current access, skills and strategies for learning in a digital environment? What challenges do you think they face in becoming digitally literate?You can also use these questions with teaching staff to check their knowledge of their own students' ICT use, and to prompt thinking about how they support learners in a digital age."

Co-browsing on any platform without downloading anything?!

"In a nutshell: schools are spending billions on technology, even as they cut budgets and lay off teachers, with little proof that this approach is improving basic learning."

"LectureTools is not lecture capture. It is a tool designed to help student engagement during your lecture. It offers a variety of ways for profs to build in interactive elements into the lecture..."

How teachers can use YTube

"...the two main activities in a lecturer's job, research and teaching, work against each other." So why not get the students doing research too?

More than an informal synchronous learning hub. The web conferencing system is free and has features similar to the big boys. (via @DrTonyBates)

Post arguing that teachers should keep a professional distance from their students. I think I profoundly disagree with this post, not around the act of staying distant but about the power differential built into his argument. Acting ethically and modelling good and realistic practice in life is more fundamental to a useful educational stance. This post refers I think to non-adults and emotional transference is something that teachers need to be conscious of. I'm not arguing that teachers should friend all their pupils online, rather that his reasons for this are flawed.

University refits student halls with Wifi and iPads for all. The aim "...to teach students 'IT IQ'-the ability to understand when a piece of technology is useful and when it isn't."

What are the fees like?

Excellent!

Modern graduate attributes and why they shouldn't be just about making good workers.

Delicious taking a lot of flak on social media after the relaunch. Will they get it right or fizzle out? More arguments for local storage with web services to join people and artifacts.

Very applicable to the digital literacy project; make sure you read Jane's previous post 'social learning is not a new trend' which is linked to in the first line.

"...a 13-minute YouTube video not only explains the process of bringing a new beer to life, it also shows how several Google products were used to do so, including Google Sites, Moderator, Hangouts, Docs, and Apps."

What it says in the title ...

Gen Y students using more Web2.0 than older students but generally in passive ways e.g. reading blogs but not writing them.