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229. Google Wave Will Revolutionize Online Classroom Instruction. ...more

228. We're using a group Zotero library to collect resources on assessment and evaluation in higher education ...more

227. Not only are students using Wikipedia in their studies, but professors are incorporating it into their classes and research. ...more

226. See a comparison of 14 personalized start pages at Mashable.com. ...more

225. Ruth Reynard explores demands placed on teachers who are digital immigrants in 21st Century Teaching and Learning, Part 1. ...more

224. Torley Linden presents lots of video tutorials for learning essential skills on Second Life. ...more

223. Notes and resources for the Laptop Lounge workshop on creating class web sites are now available. ...more

222. Learn how to use the del.icio.us bookmarking system for research. Suggestions for tagging and searching. ...more

221. You can use DVD-ripping tools to copy movies from a DVD to your computer or iPod. Here are five recommended tools. ...more

220. Ryan Bretag is dumping Zotero and Del.icio.us for Diigo. Find out why. ...more

219. Mark A. Wilson says professors should embrace Wikipedia. ...more

218. 25 essential tools for any faculty development program. Increase your productivity as an online professional. ...more

217. Diigo or del.icio.us? Which social bookmarking tool is right for you? Or for your students? ...more

216. Some suggestions from the workshop on fostering a sense of community in online classes are now available. Lots of links to useful applications. ...more

215. RefWorks or Zotero? How do these bibliographic tools compare? Must it be either/or? ...more

214. Using Google Docs you can create forms, which you can share, allowing students or colleagues to input data on collaborative projects. Great for creating surveys. ...more

213. To create a simple online poll try Micropoll. ...more

212. Miguel Guhlin introduces us to the power of broadcast learning - using streaming webcasting services to share lectures, workshops and seminars. ...more

211. Notes and resources for the Friday Laptop Lounge on responding online to student writing are now available. ...more

210. Atomic Learning now offers video tutorials on how to use Google Docs. ...more

209. Here is Jane's suggested list of 25 free online tools that every educator should know about, and even use. ...more

208. An outline for the Friday Laptop Lounge on Wikis and Pedagogy, with links to examples and online resources, is now available. ...more

207. Learn more about Facebook and how it might be used for education. ...more

206. A Kansas State University class is using the Ginger release of Netvibes to collect feeds from useful web 2.0 tools and applications and to serve as a center for collaborative research. ...more

205. Educators can cover more content from more web sites in less time using RSS feeds. ...more

204. Google bought JotSpot and is now providing a wiki (Google Sites) service as part of Google Apps. The suite of Google applications for your school's domain includes Sites, Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Talk (chat), and a Start Page. ...more

203. How can iPods be used for better learning? Here are ten suggestions. ...more

202. The top ten online video conversion services are reviewed. ...more

201. All your podcasting questions answered at John Lien's Podcasting and Blogging site. ...more

200. “Like it or not, the networked digital archive changes our basis of knowledge and training people for the future is about training them for this shift.” Professor David Parry actually wants his students to use Wikipedia. ...more

199. Capture and store images and screencasts with the free online service Jing. You can also share with others or embed them in web pages. ...more

198. Jeff Cobb offers a free eBook on learning and social media and how organizations can create new learning environments. ...more

197. At Open Educational Resources Commons you can find courseware, tools, resources, education blogs and wikis, and other information (all free) for teaching and learning. ...more

196. Share your documents online, or embed them in a web page, with Scribd's iPaper platform. ...more

195. There are ways to create presentations online without using PowerPoint. Here are just thirteen. ...more

194. “Collaboration entails working together toward a common goal, but what is the common goal we want students to work toward in classes?” Caroline Haythornthwaite talks about facilitating collaboration in online learning. ...more

193. Cognitive scientist Stephen Kosslyn gives some good advice for powerpoint presentations that are more “human brain-compliant.” ...more

192. The Horizon Report “seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning or creative expression within learning-focused organizations.” Produced by the Horizon Project. ...more

191. The PoducateMe Podcasting Guide explains all there is to know about podcasting in education. ...more

190. George Siemans discusses the educational uses of Facebook on his wiki. ...more

189. Trying to stay on top of new technologies? Here are some strategies for academic leaders (and others, too). ...more

188. Want some ideas on teaching with blogs? Here are some useful notes from a talk at GMU by Mills Kelly, who has posted on blogging elsewhere. ...more

187. Here's some advice from a teacher about how to use Twitter, the web-based instant messaging system, in academia. ...more

186. The slideshow on “Pedagogical Uses of Blogs and Wikis” from the SOCHE 2008 conference is now available, along with a list of resources. ...more

185. YouTube - and web video examples like FORA.tv, BigThink, and YouTube university channels - are becoming increasingly popular with professors as a way to expand their audience. ...more

184. Larry Regan has put together a course on best practices in online teaching. ...more

183. Encouraging active learning is one of the seven principles of good practice in undergraduate education (Chickering & Gamson). See how technology can be used to advance this goal. ...more

182. John Morrison has posted some social bookmarking strategies for interactive learning, adapted from an Educause paper on syllabus strategies by Deborah Everhart. ...more

181. In this episode of IT Conversations Jon Udell interviews Gardner Campbell, who “talks about how our emerging uses of the internet enable educators and students to create fresh approaches to higher education.” ...more

180. Check out the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies' picks for the top 100 tools for learning in 2007. ...more

179. Google applications can be set to keep your material private, restricted to yourself or to your classes only. These videos explain how. ...more

178. Tagging is very useful, even if not at popular as it was once expected to be. Learn how to pick up the practice. ...more

177. If you are putting some/most of your class material online, why should students come to class? Jean Bryan addresses the issue with some suggestions. ...more

176. End of year recommendations. Here are ten online applications for teachers. And Rick Salisbury recommends these 12 web tools, which are also quite useful for educators.

175. kwout is a free online service that lets you quote part of a web site and post it as an image. ...more

174. Download the free book 162 Tips and Tricks for Working with e-Learning Tools. Members of the eLearning Guild share their tips. ...more

173. According to a recent PEW Internet and American Life Project study on Teens and Social Media 64% of teens are producing digital content (up from 57% in 2004). ...more

172. Challenged by new technologies? Learn them at the conceptual level rather then the keystroke level. ...more

171. Looking for photos? Try public domain photos, the national archives, Uncle Sam's Photos, the NOAA photo library, the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, and the Great Images in NASA library of images. ...more

170. See why Beth Kanter loves Google Docs. ...more

169. If you must use Powerpoint for your presentation, you might want to consider these tips for avoiding last minute problems. ...more

168. Pageflakes, a free site that lets you create your own private or public home page, now offers a “teacher edition” with widgets especially designed for educators. ...more

167. Here's a very good Powerpoint presentation about how to avoid designing bad Powerpoint presentations. ...more

166. UC Berkeley professor Hubert Dreyfus is a rock star when is comes to podcast lectures. ...more

165. Scott McLemee talks about using RSS feeds and some of the best academic blogs to follow. ...more

164. The Language Browser at MIT uses speech recognition software to search audio and video lectures by key terms. The results take you right to the place in the talk where the keyword first appears. ...more

163. If you are trying to get students to collaborate, this web site on “Enabling student collaboration for learning” might help. ...more

162. From reluctance and trepidation to jubilation. Cynthia L. Corritore talks about her experiences when offering a new online class. ...more

161. Over 150 sites are listed in this online video toolbox. ..more

160. Here's a very real (and useful) annotated bibliography for those thinking of using Second Life (a 3D multi-user virtual online platform) for education. ...more

159. or ideas about primary sources you can use for teaching check out the Central Illinois Teaching with Primary Sources Newsletter. ...more

158. What can someone with a degree in creative writing and theater tell us about designing good Powerpoint presentations? ...more

157. Best practices for the use of social software: here are three approaches. ...more

156. How can you download a streaming audio file? Tanasije Gjorgoski explains one way using the VLC Media Player. ...more

155. The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Statement of Best Practices For Fair Use in Teaching For Film and Media Educators. ...more

154. The wiki mind map allows you to map concepts as they are linked together on wikipedia. It's an interesting way to study and do research and to see conceptual relationships. ...more

153. There has been a lot written about web 2.0 and education. Here's a good bibliography and links to articles that will get you started. ...more

152. You can use Vimeo to upload and share your videos. Many different file types are accepted and you can set the video to be public or private (with a password). ...more

151. Mark Frydenberg and Lisa Gordis use PBwiki for their classes. ...more

150. Educause presents seven things you should know about YouTube. ...more

148. David Parry argues that RSS feeds are crucial for the blogging classroom. ...more

147. Is the internet changing the way scholars work? Christine Borgman discusses the issue in a new book. ...more

146. “The Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is a social network for educators. Find a wealth of content ranging from simple lesson ideas to in-depth curriculum units … showcasing campus projects, research and more.” ...more

145. Here's a A bank of digital resources (photos, images, graphs) for teaching biology. ...more

144. How to encourage participation and collaboration on wiki projects. ...more

143. Blended learning combines traditional classroom techniques with new technologies. A new book provides guidelines for enhancing the classroom experience....more

142. Lots of free Mac OS X software applications, many of which may have value in the classroom. ...more

141. Buzzword is an interesting new service that uses flash technology to put a word processor on the web. The editing capabilities are adequate and the commenting features are nice. Documents can be shared with readers or co-authors. ...more

140. Wetpaint, a free online wiki service, now offers a discussion forum. ...more

139. Dan Cohen writes about “the strange dynamics of technology adoption and promotion in academia.” ...more

138. In the quickly changing world of online resources, should we be teaching students literacy habits instead of just literacy skills? ...more

137. In Alisa Cooper's screencast learn how to create your own grading toolbar in MS Word to facilitate grading and feedback. ...more

136. Educause discusses the top ten technology-related teaching and learning challenges for 2007. ...more

135. Carnegie Mellon offers a very useful web site on instructional design and how to plan and design your Blackboard site. ...more

134. In “Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper” Andreas Brockhaus and Martha Groom discuss the value of asking students to write term papers for publication in Wikipedia. See their powerpoint presentation. ...more

133. The archives of Educational Pathways provides links to many publicly available articles about “online teaching and learning, education technology, information literacy/fluency, the globalization of higher education and much more.” ...more

132. Help on Blackboard can be found in the Atomic Learning tutorials, and Blackboard offers its own set of video tutorials. ...more

131. Palomar College provides a useful series of podcasts (and notes) in which they offer faculty advice about using Blackboard more effectively. ...more

130. Jason Rhode offers a comprehensive list of links to free web tools in his presentation “Web 2.0 Gizmos and Gadgets: Moving Beyond the Walls of Blackboard.” ...more

129. Media literacy and copyright. Read this report from the Center for Social Media on “The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy.” ...more

128. ECAR studies undergraduates and information technology: what they use, own and experience, with special attention to the impact of technology on their academic experience. ..more

127. “To best prepare twenty-first-century learners … institutions should implement … pedagogical practices that involve interactive, inquiry- or problem-based, technology-enriched teaching and learning.” ...more

126. Watch this presentation on the data collected from the University of Wisconsin System study of student response systems (clickers). ...more

125. Peter Schmidt has some ideas about using student podcasts in literature classes. ...more

124. Podcasts can be used to create and distribute lectures, deliver supplementary materials, or allow students to produce and submit responses to assignments. ...more

123. Helen Barrett discusses the difference between electronic portfolios and online assessment management systems. ...more

122. TurningPoint Learning Student Response Systems allow you to get immediate feedback from students in the classroom. Read about best practices. ...more

121. Academic Technologies for Learning (U Alberta) provides a helpful guide to distributed learning environments. Check this out if you are planning to use technology to enhance your teaching. ...more

120. Learn more about how to organize and manage the design of your Blackboard course. ...more

119. “Blended learning is defined as using various delivery methods to best meet course and session objectives.” Babson recommends some best practices. ...more

118. From MSU: Hybrid course design tips for technology-assisted learning. ...more

117.How to use PowerPoint for active learning. Take a look at the University of Minnesota's tutorial. ...more

116. Jon Udell talks about how he makes podcasts and screencasts. ...more

115. Digital Ethnography is “a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography.” Check out their videos. ...more

114. You can find some useful links to information about using wikis (and other things) at the blog OneManWrites. ...more

113. UC Berkeley is using YouTube to post videos of class lectures. ...more

112. What is Web 2.0? This Google presentation from Don Yourdon explains, and demonstrates what Google Presentations can do. ...more

111. Lots of advice for those who want to take notes online. Read through the comments to this student's plea for help. ...more

110. Want to post RSS feeds on your Blackboard site? It's possible using Feed2JS and these simple instructions. ...more

109. Scott McLemee reviews Zotero, the bibliography, bookmarking, annotation software tool for researchers that can be installed in FireFox browsers. ...more

108. You can find lots of great peer-reviewed articles about teaching online at MERLOT's Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT). ...more

107. Three faculty at Bentley College talk about how they use blogs in their classes as “a tool to help students prepare for meaningful classroom discussion.” ...more

106. Friday Laptop Lounge is held every Friday at 2:00 in SL 221. Summaries, with links to supplementary material, are now available online. ...more

105. Wikis and Podcasts and Blogs! Oh, My! What Is a Faculty Member Supposed to Do? Find out in this EduCause article. ...more

104. The Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET) offers useful answers to important questions about technology and its impact on learning and teaching. ...more

103. How do you decide which social bookmarking service to use? Read/Write Web provides a nice comparison along with a discussion about where they are going. ...more

102. Harvard and other universities are experimenting with virtual office hours. ...more

101. Lots of free Mac software for teachers and students. ...more

100. More students are using technology and they tend to think it improves learning. How does IT affect learning? Read the recent report from EduCause. ...more

99. 7 things you should know about social bookmarking (from EduCause). ...more

98. For NKU users: Now through Atomic Learning you can access over 30,000 tutorials on more than 110 software titles so you can develop your software skills at your convenience—24/7. (log in required off campus) ...more

97. “Your word processor can be used for the most basic—and essential—tasks: entering text, deleting text, copying and pasting text and images, and saving and printing documents. … This research guide discusses basic and advanced functions found in leading word processing programs.” ...more

96. Bits is a blog by Barclay Barrios (Director of Writing Programs and Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University) about teaching composition. ...more

95. The University of Wisconsin offers some useful advice about making and using podcasts in education. ...more

94. Diigo - the online clipping, annotation and bookmarking service - now allows you to create a slideshow from your bookmarked and annotated web sites. ...more

93. Gabriela Grosseck explains how to use del.icio.us, the social bookmarking system, in education. ...more

92. There are seven things you should know about podcasting. ...more

91. You can backup your hard drive with Mozy, a free online service for backup storage. Darrell Icenogle has a screencast that explains how it works. ...more

90. Vcasmo is a free web-based service that allows you to post a video alongside a powerpoint presentation. ...more

89. If we think of education as a collective effort, depending on a network of learners and on the character of information, then we need to be thinking about informatics. ...more

88. A new beta version of Adobe® Flash® Player–plays both H.264 and flash videos and operates on a number of different platforms–is now available. ...more

87. This Canadian teacher asks students to use RSS feeds to follow current information. Is it better to use a standard RSS feed reader or iGoogle's personal homepages to keep track of the feeds? ...more

86. New to the FireFox browser? They now offer a “Campus Edition” with add-ons they predict college students will find useful. ...more

85. Helen Barrett recommends using Google Pages to create online portfolios. ...more

84. How can you use EduBlogs (or any blog) to teach? Here are ten suggestions. ...more

83. St. Mary's College professor Barry Eckhouse has gone paperless in his MBA class. Find out how technology makes this possible. ...more

82. The Learning Toolbox offers recommendations and suggestions for tools to use for different learning activities. ...more

81. The Web Worker Daily reviews seven applications for online note-taking. ...more

80. Dean Shareski explains how to use RSS feeds to keep track of updated news and information. ...more

79. Use Zentation to synchronize a video (uploaded to Google video) with a slide presentation. ...more

78. As one of a growing number of online bibliographic search engines, Google Scholar has a number of interesting features, both strengths and weaknesses. ...more

77. Mary Ellen Bertolini of the writing program at Middlebury College has her students learning with audio. ...more

76. From the Wisdom of Crowds to the Wisdom of Wikis. ...more

75. “There is a lot of web 2.0 activity in the e-learning space…. The current era of the Web is all about two-way communication, collaboration and 'read/write'; and the classroom is an ideal place to utilize these technologies.” ...more

74. Social live streaming video is gaining more attention. Here are five services currently available. ...more

73. Here are “5 things you probably didn't know you could do in Google Docs & Spreadsheets.” ...more

72. What does it take to educate the Net-Generation? This free e-book (pdf) from Educause “explores the Net Gen and the implications for institutions in areas such as teaching, service, learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum.” ...more

71. Open source software in education? Jay Pfaffman makes the case. ...more

70. You can use this rubric to decide whether your distance courses are interactive enough. ...more

69. “A successful online discussion has the same synergistic effect of group or in-class discussion, in which students build on one another's perspectives to gain a deeper understanding of the materials.” ...more

68. Collaborate on documents and spreadsheets; you can keep them private or make them public. It's available at Google. ...more

67. The slideshow and links for the Summer Institute workshop “Building Community with Social Software” are available online. More links at del.icio.us/nkupod. ...more

66. Are you a social scholar? Social scholars are using Web 2.0 research and publication applications as part of their scholarship. ...more

65. Do you want to take notes online? Here's a review of seven online note-taking applications. ...more

64. Create a screencast with Screencast-O-Matic. Use only your browser; no installation required. ...more

63. Weblogs (blogs) and message boards (aka discussion boards) are different. Lee Lefever explains. ...more

62. The most recent version of iTunes (7.2) now has a link to iTunes U (free lectures, seminars and university podcasts) from the iTunes Store. NKU iTunes U is available here. ...more

61. Want to capture a flash videos (.flv) like those found on YouTube and download them to your hard drive? It's easy at vixy.net. ...more

60. Zotero is a new Firefox extension that serves as “a personal research assistant.” You can collect, manage and cite sources on and off the internet. ...more

59. There are a number of good reference management applications available for the avid web reader. Here are a few. ...more

58. Brian Dvorak podcasts about using Skype for free video conferencing in education. ...more

57. Which wiki should you use? The School Library Journal compares three popular models. ...more

56. Viddler: A web application that lets you upload, enhance, and share digital video inside your web browser. There are a number of other free web applications for online video editing also available. ...more

55. From across the pond: Web 2.0 for Content for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. “This report is the result of a study into the use of Web 2.0 technologies for content creation for learning and teaching in Higher Education.” ...more

54. Second Life is a virtual environment that “provides a unique and flexible environment for educators interested in distance learning….” The Second Life Education Wiki provides resources for those who want to explore its potential. ...more

53. Free online file conversion at Zamzar. You can save and convert YouTube videos. ...more

52. Ready for downloading: The 2007 Horizon Report…highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years. ...more

51. del.icio.us is great for bookmarking a website but Web-Chops and Clipmarks are two browser-based web clipping services that let you clip only the part of the page you want to save. ...more

50. “This article is about the facilitation of bounded groups. However, this is now just one subsection of online facilitation. There really is a huge need for more knowledge about network facilitation.” ...more

49. “I have been in college almost three years now and have been using many different Web tools that saved me time, helped me learn more and, most importantly, did not cost a penny. Here are 10 tools that I recommend for every college student.” ...more

48. These tools are for users to store files (whether it be documents, images, videos etc), to tag them and to share them with others. ...more

47. Is a blog a better choice than Blackboard? Will they meet all or most of your class needs? ...more

46. Use Skype and ZohoShow to make a presentation at a distance. ...more

45. “CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser.” ...more

44. Robert Scoble follows 622 RSS feeds (about 1300 items) each day. How does he do it? ...more>>

43. Are social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us better at search than Google? ...more>>

42. The confessions of a podcast junkie can be found in the recent Educause Review. Sound advice for faculty. ...more>>

41. A recent survey suggests that faculty are split on whether new social software will change student learning. ...more>>

40. With Fleck you can add note to a web page and share it with others or post it to a blog. ...more>>

39. Reading on a browser differs from reading a book. Bookmarklets can help. Academic Hacks explains how and refers us to this video presentation. ...more>>

38. Neighboroo lets you search and explore a number of different demographic, environmental, lifestyle trends across the country. ...more>>

37. In this video interview Teemu Arina, a Finnish educational scholar, talks about how the future of learning is informal and mobile. ...more>>

36. Why is the wiki is such an important asset in knowledge management? ...more>>

35. Today we use tags to create a taxonomy of web content (sites, articles, images, videos) that is easily searched and shared. The result of this bottom-up system of categorization is folksonomy. ...more>> and ...more>>

34. Lots of examples of how to use Google Maps mashups (a map created to present specific data)–as well as the tools needed to do it yourself–can be found at Google Maps Mania. ...more>>

33. In this comprehensive article, Renée Fountain explains wiki pedagogy–its uses, tools, examples, strategies, and challenges. ...more>>

32. Now you can highlight text and annotate web pages. Diigo is a social annotation application. This YouTube video explains how it works. ...more>>

31. New technologies have changed the nature of collaboration in interesting ways. A comparison chart starts the conversation at Teaching Hacks. ...more>>

30. Mobile Phones (for both e-learning and emergencies) are the topic of the latest podcast from Rod's Pulse Podcast. ..more>>

29. Jon Udell gave the keynote address at the University of Mary Washington's Faculty Academy 2006 on 21st Century Literacy. The talk is available as a podcast. ...more>>

28. Does new research pronounce the death of PowerPoint presentations? ...more>>

27. Stanford's Tom Byers recently presented his ideas about using new technologies in the classroom. His Educators Corner website for Entrepreneurship educators provides some good examples. Check out Kendall Madden's review. ...more>>

26. My Maps is a new Google tool that lets you create and customize your own maps, with markers, trails and the ability to include images and videos. Instructions are easy and you can even keep your data in a Google Spreadsheet. ...more>>

25. In Tomorrow's Professor José Bowen suggests that one of the main benefits of using technology out of class is that it frees you to “increase and improve your naked, untechnological face-to-face interaction with students.” ...more>>

24. Are you already using Blackboard? Christian Dalsgaard argues that you should go beyond learning management systems and use social software to “engage students in an active use of the web.” ...more>>

23. Google has just released Google Notebook. From any computer, without leaving your browser, you can clip text or images from web pages, organize your research, and keep notes in different notebooks that you can share with others. ...more>>

22. POD is using the del.icio.us social bookmarking site to keep track of a variety of interesting and useful internet sites. Start your own del.icio.us bookmarking account and add NKUPOD to your network. ...more>>

21. Doodle is a free online service that let's users schedule meetings. You create a poll with possible meeting times and dates, then give participants the link and let them identify convenient times. ...more>>

20. There are differences between traditional portfolios and e-portfolios. Members attending the recent Conference on College Composition and Communication discussed new guidelines and raised a number of important issues. ...more>>

19. Check out this very clever, perhaps inspiring, YouTube video designed to motivate the use of technology in teaching. ...more>>

18. Searching the Internet is a blog all about … searching the internet. Some great tips and good advice. ...more>>

17. Several educators who use PBWiki have created videos in which they explain the wiki and its many uses. ...more>>

16. Recent studies on cognitive load–the amount of information the brain juggles–recommend several ideas for more effective teaching. ...more>> and ...more>>

15. Find lots of online teaching and learning materials, including multimedia resources, at Merlot. ...more>>

14. This video will fill you in on the significance of Web 2.0. But don't miss this creative YouTube video response, "The Machine is Us/ing Us." ...more>>

13. Wayfaring is a web service that lets you create and share personalized maps. ...more>>

12. Gapminder provides technological tools for presenting data on globalization, life expectancy and income distribution. Check out this amazing presentation delivered at this year's TED conference. ...more>>

11. Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, messaging. Todd Bryant explains how Dickinson College is using social software to enhance student collaboration and communication. ...more>>

10. What does it take to give a good PowerPoint presentation? Chad Orzel offers some rules of thumb for a successful scientific talk. ...more>>

9. A variety of web clipping services make it easy to organize you research and keep track of specific information. Highlight selected text or images, save clippings, add notes and comments, and share with your colleagues and friends. ...more>>

8. Web 2.0 applications and services are everywhere and it is difficult to keep track of them and sort through the ones you want. But there is a web site that promises to guide you through a comprehensive directory. ...more>>

7. Has the “wiki revolution” come to your class yet? Piotr Konieczny argues that “global peer review” can enhance the quality and relevance of teaching and learning. ...more>>

6. Instant messaging is nothing new to students. Can it serve as a useful tool in higher education classes? Educause Quarterly publishes a study of the advantages and obstacles of using IM in education. ...more>>

5. Teaching with a wiki. At Appalachian State University Derek Stanovsky is having his students write a Wikipedia entry on Marx's Capitalism, Vol. I. There is also a class blog for this Interdisciplinary Studies course. ...more>>

4. Eide Neurolearning is a blog operated by Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide. Their entries are dedicated to brain research and its relation learning differences and development. ...more>>

3. iSquint is Mac OS X software (free in a minimal version) that let's you convert video files to iPod-ready files. It's drag-and-drop, fast, and easy to use. ...more>>

2. What is social software? Read more about how this easy-to-use web-based software can help students engage with one another and the course material. ...updated>>

1. Do you want to embed a YouTube video in your Blackboard course material? It's easier than you think. ...more>>