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I recently received an email invitation to NfoMedia, a new free social networking utility designed especially for faculty and their courses. I’ve setup a free account and poked around a bit, but since NIU isn’t yet listed as one of the home institutions, I’ve not dabbled any further. I’m sure it’s just a [...]

I just came across this new service, Page2RSS, that makes it easy to create an RSS feed for any webpage. It helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. Page2RSS will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator.
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Thanks to a link from Ken Sadowski, I stumbled across this free online guide by Micah Ovadia offering practical tips regarding podcasting in education. This is appears to be a great resource for anyone looking at getting into more of the finer aspects of podcasting and is definitely worth bookmarking for future reference.

Edublogs sent out the following email announcing their new campus hosting service. Looks promising…
Dear Edublogger,
Today we’d like to share something really special with you, our new blogging system for schools, colleges and other institutions, Edublogs Campus.
http://edublogs.org/campus/
It’s a simple, powerful and safe way to bring blogs to your school. You can host the site at [...]

Mike Offerman, vice chairman of Capella University, is authoring a new blog on critical issues facing the future of higher education. Research shows that only about 15 percent of higher education students still fit the traditional definition of a college student: age 18 to 22, living on campus, and going to school full time. That [...]

I just stumbled across Kaltura, a free collaborative online video editing tool. Similar to other online media editors like Jumpcut, Kaltura “…is a free online site for group video making. For the first time, users are given the ability to CREATE RICH MEDIA TOGETHER. Like the Wiki platform that enables users to collaborate on the [...]

Blackboard has recently released two new web services as part of its “Blackboard Beyond” initiative…Scholar and SafeAssign. Scholar is basically an academic resource sharing (aka: “social bookmarking”) service that is integrated within Blackboard.  SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service that again is incorporated into Blackboard.NIU has recently just rolled out both Scholar and SafeAssign.  As part of this process, I’ve [...]

I’ve recently been looking to organize and backup my photo libraries from Flickr. Unfortunately, Flickr has no built-in batch downloading of photos. But, I did come across several great free utilities that do allow for batch downloading of photos from your Flickr account.

FlickrDown [PC]
FlickrBackup [Mac]
FlickrEdit [Mac]

Since FlickrDown was the first utility I came [...]

Here’s a great bibliography of articles related to Web 2.0 and Education. I have a couple of these I already have in my personal archive of Web 2.0 articles but I certainly will bookmark this for future reference.
Thanks Stephen for the link!

What follows doesn’t have much to do with pedagogy of online teaching and learning, but it’s a pretty cool little application of web 2.0 technology! I came across a little Flickr utility that lets you spell any word or series of words with photos from Flickr. Great for visually representing an acrostic or key term…
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I just stumbled across a free, open source internet tv and video player called “Miro”. Details at http://www.getmiro.com
I’m really impressed with the list of features and head-to-head comparison of Miro to Joost. Miro boasts some great features…no DRM, access to any publisher with video RSS feeds, anyone can create a content guide, and that it [...]

One of what I consider to be the “perks” of my job is that I get to meet once a month with some great people who also are involved in supporting learning and technology in education. This great group of people from across the Midwest comprise SLATE, the Midwest Blackboard User’s Group.
SLATE, the Midwest Blackboard [...]

The Ohio Learning Network (OLN) has announced the following two new online communities (listservs):
Second Life:
OLN invites you to join this interactive environment for open conversation. Members of the Second Life Listserv can share ideas about using SL in education, get support, share SL objects, and gain insights regarding effective SL practices. They will also have [...]

Looking for music and video that is freely available online? Try seeqpod.com. SeeqPod boasts to be the, “first consumer site empowers users by allowing them to search and discover music and video all over the Web. Our intelligent software robots [...]

Dr. Dennis Mills shared this list of research tools and social networking resources. There are so many great resources listed here that I haven’t had a chance yet to review, so I’m just posting his list and look forward to getting back to these…
Search Engines
http://www.scholar.google.com Google Scholar
http://vivisimo.com or http://clusty.com Vivisimo and [...]