Fantastic resource for our team as we work with teachers! from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework… In 2006 some of the past New Practices in Flexible Learning project teams developed workshop resources for their projects. These workshops are now…

engage - transforming teaching and learning through technology For educational purposes, a podcast could be: * course audio files, e.g. bird calls or heart sounds * mini lessons with audio and visuals, eg., glossaries with sound and images, slides with…

Link to website useful summary page of current Google tools and suggestions about how they can be used in education.

Today I participated in an Elluminate session by Alex Hayes on moblogging Some introductory thoughts and prompts from Alex are available at http://alexanderhayes.wikispaces.com/17082006 Before the session started we were sent some SMS and MMS messages which…

link to pdf From K Boan, via James Farmer, comes this handout on Blogging in Wordpress, using the edublogs.org / learnerblogs.org services.

link to website This website has been developed by and includes lots of short and useful PD resources on the following topics:

link to pdf Social computing, personal broadcasting, mobile phone use, educational gaming, augmented reality and enhanced visualisation are the six emerging trends identified as likely to have a significant impact in higher education. This annual research…

link to pdf From Educause “A screencast is a screen capture of the actions on a user’s computer screen, typically with accompanying audio, distributed through RSS. In the same way that a screenshot is a static representation of a computer screen at a point…

From Robin Good link to website “Electronic portfolios or e-portfolios are gaining increasing media attention as potentially highly valuable learning, evaluation and assessment tools for educators, learners and academic organizations. An e-portfolio is a…

After a quick coffee, we spoke around the table about the things that struck a chord with us. Our table flagged Simplicity, Sharing of IP (no value in owning content unless information is commercial in confidence, you can find duplicates of most information…

John Mitchell’s introduction included a quote from Friedman, we need to be “working smarter and smarter rather than cheaper and harder” new ideas need to be connected back to the fundamentals ‘70% of Australians now produce something you cannot drop on your…

link to website (requires free registration for “Back to Basics”) Before reinventing the wheel I’ve been looking for templates, examples and so on to support a workshop on clustering units in learning and assessment. I came across this case study on the…

link to website PodPress is a plugin for WordPress to make publishing a podcast feed much easier from Dan Kuykendall of http://www.mightyseek.com/ if I ever get around to podcasting this looks like it wouldl make it all quite easy.

link to website “Campfire lets you set up secure, password-protected web-based chat rooms in just seconds. Invite a client, a colleague, or a vendor to a chat. Set up a room on your intranet for internal communications. Conduct meetings with people around…

link to website Alan Levine writes about a recent presentation to teaching staff, reinforcing a thought of mine that introducing the new technologies needs to include time for use of the tools themselves as learners and then reflection about how the tools…

A couple of collections of software that have been circulating around the blogosphere. Portable applications can be loaded onto a USB drive meaning they can be used wherever needed. This can mean having your usual tools at your fingertips and not worrying so…

link to pdf This looks like it would be a good reference/ handout for using with colleagues. I particularly liked the scenarios on the first page comparing two people - one using bookmarks based on their computer, and the other using web-based social…

link to pdf From Will Richardson a Quick Start Guide to RSS in pdf format.

link to website What looks like a comprehensive guide to various Flickr related tips, tools and applications.

I’d come across Picasa very briefly last year when helping colleagues get photos into Blogger via Hello , but hadn’t looked further at it because I already had a tool that would do what I wanted with organising my photos on my home computer. Since then I…

Duke News & Communications Duke to Continue to Utilize iPods for Educational Use “Following a preliminary review of its year-long effort to incorporate Apple iPods into the curriculum, Duke University will continue distributing the devices to students next…

link to website from Eric Tremblay Podcasting and pull technologies Eric suspects that the richnesss and potential for multilayered interaction through using is better than podcasting which he sees as unidimensional.

link to website from Robin Good “Finding quality images and photos for complementing an important article, essay or news report is already quite a challenge for many. Imagine when the goal is not just too find good images, but find some that you could openly…

link to website article from Robin Good. No review yet, but product information available. Product website here . Free download. “With Ineen, the first fully-featured open source and open-standards compliant audio and videoconferencing desktop tool is here.…

link to website As someone who has worked in virtual teams, some tools to do it better are always welcome. Dave Pollard’s article outlines different types of collaboration in the world of work, as well as a matrix outlining the advantages of various styles…

link to website James Farmer discusses the alternatives to large systems for recording lectures. This comes from a Higher Ed background where the lecture is a common instructional method, but the issues have implications for the use of audio in all sectors.…

link to website From Steve Brooks at edugadget.com: “podcasting tools are quickly evolving What:Podcasting tools are evolving quickly and it may be time to stop panicking and start embracing it. I wrote about podcasting 42 days ago and basically said the…

link to website Talsico makes a software product which helps generate ‘picture process maps’. Material is represented in flowchart, step by step (text) and photo means. Icons and colour are used for common elements between process maps. The final output is a…

link to website From the site: What’s a PodGuide?. “A PodGuide is a very simple thing. It’s the combination of a map (PDF) of a certain place and a series of audio tracks (mp3) which you can download for your iPod. Think of an audio tour in a museum, but not…