YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
this is great, you could get students to produce an annotated version of their video, describing cuts, choice of sound plus loads of other stuff
Social Bookmarking in Plain English
Plain speaking, no nonsense explaination of the advantage of using social bookmarking, specifically delicious in this instance.
mTrends - mobile media lifestyle trends - m-trends.org
Mobile communication information. from free sms to looking at the latest technology.
Software4Students | Discounted Microsoft Office & Others for Students
Need Microsoft Office? As student you can buy it from Software for Students.
Office 2008 fro Mac (full version) is only £35.89 and for PC it’s only £35.94
Now I know we’re all supposed to hate M$ but at those prices how can you. You can also buy other MS applications from there too. Just ordered mine for home, as an OU student I’m eligible.
Review of Open Source Content Management Systems - Adobe Edge: April 2008
from the April newsletter, the article looks at OS CMS and what they offer.
Useful..
Communities of practice
Short article on Communities of Practice by Etienne Wenger
The Ed Techie: More Twitter types
More of Martin Weller’s musings of everyones favourite shoutbox Twitter. He makes some interesting observations of it’s use, but (and no disrepect to him) do most of it’s users actually care what Twitter type they are. Incidentally, I actually I would regard myself and usage of it as falling into Martin’s Wide Peer Network definition of twitter usage.
OutsideTheText
Link to David Parry’s blog. lots of educational stuff about digital narrative and storytelling.
The Ed Techie: The Social:Learn project
Article about how HE needs to find ways of embracing social web2.0 technology.