<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/xsl/rss2html.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/scripts/wpcss/wiki/swinilearn/skin/organic/rss" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Swinilearn Community - Recently Updated Pages</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/pageSearch/updated</link><description>Recently Updated Pages on http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com</description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>info@wetpaint.com</webMaster><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:44:07 CDT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:44:07 CDT</lastBuildDate><generator>wetpaint.com</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>Swinilearn Community</title><url>http://www.wetpaint.com/img/logo.gif</url><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com</link><description>Using e-learning and Blackboard LMS </description></image><item><title>Video Page</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Video+Page</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Video+Page</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:44:07 CDT</pubDate><description>Just a collection of videos that I liked.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;table align=&quot;bottom&quot; cellpadding=&quot;3&quot; class=&quot;WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23ebebeb&amp;color2=%23c7c7c7&quot; width=&quot;400&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Google Wave</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Google+Wave</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Google+Wave</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:34:09 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Twitter</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Twitter</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Twitter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:33:21 CDT</pubDate><description>For all the &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://tinyurl.com/r7ksku&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;visual learners&quot;&gt;visual learners&lt;/a&gt; out there, here are some images to stimulate the artist or mathematician - could one be both? Description of twitter- network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.bitrebels.com/geek/how-to-develop-into-a-leader-on-twitter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;How to develop into a leader on twitter&quot;&gt;How to develop into a leader on twitter&lt;/a&gt; Twenty leaders on Twitter agreed to answer the question:  What is your #1 tip for how a person can develop into a leader on Twitter? Of course, there are many additional people that deserve to be on this list, but this is a very special handful of people selected because they have helped me in developing my own social media leadership skills.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/03/19/100-tips-apps-and-resources-for-teachers-on-twitter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;100 Tips, Apps and Resources for Teachers on Twitter&quot;&gt;100 Tips, Apps and Resources for Teachers on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_118cfb8msf8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Twenty-One Interesting Ways* to use Twitter in the Classroom&quot;&gt;Twenty-One Interesting Ways* to use Twitter in the Classroom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3705&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class - via Twitter&quot;&gt;Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class - via Twitter&lt;/a&gt; read down into some of the comments in this article.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/06/08/50-ways-to-use-twitter-in-the-college-classroom/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom&quot;&gt;50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom&lt;/a&gt; from OnlineColleges.net&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://mashable.com/2009/08/21/13-twitter-tools/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;TWEET IDEAS: 13 Things to Do on Twitter Besides Tweet&quot;&gt;TWEET IDEAS: 13 Things to Do on Twitter Besides Tweet&lt;/a&gt; Tired of delivering the typical stream of status updates on &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://twitter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.blippr.com/apps/336651-Twitter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; ( )&lt;/a&gt;? Why not try some of the following ideas for other things you can do with the service?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.jarche.com/2009/06/learning-and-micro-blogging/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;earning and micro-blogging&quot;&gt;Learning and micro-blogging&lt;/a&gt; - nice post on using Twitter with good resources&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://shrinkingthecamel.com/2009/09/26/the-twidiots-guide-to-twitter-etiquette-essential-dos-and-donts-for-twitter-beginners/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;The Twidiot’s Guide to Twitter Etiquette: Twelve Essential Do’s and Dont’s for Twitter Beginners&quot;&gt;The Twidiot&amp;rsquo;s Guide to Twitter Etiquette: Twelve Essential Do&amp;rsquo;s and Dont&amp;rsquo;s for Twitter Beginners&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Introduction to Twitter for Educators from Samantha Morra&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://tweetbeep.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Tweetbeep&quot;&gt;Tweetbeep&lt;/a&gt; If you love Twitter, you&amp;#39;ll love TweetBeep! Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company, anything, &lt;b&gt;with hourly updates&lt;/b&gt;! You can even keep track of who&amp;#39;s tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL (like bit.ly or tinyurl.com). Now, how cool is that?!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/14062777/Twitter-Handbook-for-Teachers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Twitter Handbook for Teachers&quot;&gt;Twitter Handbook for Teachers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Bit of fun - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.thehenry.net/2009/10/if-60s-had-twitter.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;If the 60's had Twitter&quot;&gt;If the 60&amp;#39;s had Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.danah.org/TwitterResearch.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Research on Twitter and Microblogging&quot;&gt;Research on Twitter and Microblogging&lt;/a&gt; The research contained in this link is focused specifically on Twitter and other  microblogging phenomena. This list is not methodologically or disciplinarily  organized. There is work here from communications, information science,  anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, cultural studies,  computer science, etc. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.vrml.k12.la.us/curriculum/tech/socialnetwork/twitter/twitter.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Twitter Help for Educators&quot;&gt;Twitter Help for Educators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://listorious.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;The best twitter lists&quot;&gt;The best twitter lists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Little interesting note - all this info on Twitter came from Twitter&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Podcasting</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Podcasting</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Podcasting</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:56:17 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;br&gt;This theme page presents information and resources about &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/vet/themes/pid/3118&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;podcasting&quot;&gt;podcasting&lt;/a&gt; and related contacts.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://epnweb.org/index.php?view_mode=about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Education Podcast Network&quot;&gt;Education Podcast Network&lt;/a&gt; has a range of Podcasts for educators&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;How to Podcast&quot;&gt;How to Podcast&lt;/a&gt; This is the home of the free podcast tutorial that will takeyour podcast from concept to launch fast and for minimal costbrought to  you by, Jason Van Orden, author of Promoting Your Podcast.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://mashable.com/2007/07/04/podcasting-toolbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources&quot;&gt;Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/howtoarticles/podcasting-basics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Teaching Today&quot;&gt;Teaching Today&lt;/a&gt; Blog Post on Podcasting Basics from Teaching Today&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://hivelogic.com/articles/podcasting-equipment-guide-2009/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Podcasting Equipment Guide 2009&quot;&gt;Podcasting Equipment Guide 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Mobile Devices</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Mobile+Devices</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Mobile+Devices</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:56:44 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://ow.ly/l6So&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Classroom Tech, Part VI: Cell Phones&quot;&gt;Classroom Tech, Part VI: Cell Phones&lt;/a&gt; Kevin Hurt&amp;#39;s Blog - ed.u.ma.ca.tion &amp;quot;As I wind down this summer&amp;rsquo;s Classroom Tech series, I want to focus a little bit of time on a tool that most students are not even allowed to use in their classes &amp;ndash; cell phones.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/09/03/for-teens-has-texting-replaced-talking/?mod=rss_WSJBlog?mod=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;For Teens, Has Texting Replaced Talking?&quot;&gt;For Teens, Has Texting Replaced Talking?&lt;/a&gt; From &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2009/09/03/for-teens-has-texting-replaced-talking/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The  Juggle&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; Sue Shellenbarger:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also can use tools like &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.polleverywhere.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;polleverywhere&quot;&gt;polleverywhere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://classtools.net/twitter/tweet.php?message=Ipod%2520Touch%2520in%2520Education&amp;url=http://learninginhand.com/ipod/touch.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;So much to do with an iPod Touch&quot;&gt;So much to do with an iPod Touch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.l4l.co.uk/?p=835&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod touch each?&quot;&gt;What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod touch each?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://ipodclassroom.wikispaces.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;iPods in the classroom&quot;&gt;iPods in the classroom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>E-Learning Design</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/E-Learning+Design</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/E-Learning+Design</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:55:19 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Australian Flexible Learning Framework has a Learning Design Tool. The Learning Design Tool is a FREE online resource which guides you step-by-step  through the four essential stages to write high quality, learner-focused course  content, and to create your own learning design template.Click&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://toolboxes.flexiblelearning.net.au/ldt/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;here&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to download.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/03/coaching-critical-thinking-to-think.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Coaching Critical Thinking to Think Creatively&quot;&gt;Coaching Critical Thinking to Think Creatively&lt;/a&gt; Great blog which is written by a Higher Ed teacher - Zaid Alsagoff. He creatively explains the process that he has developed to design an e-learning environment for his students which is very engaging. I hope you find it interesting!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://mattybee.freehostia.com/blog/2009/06/29/designing-practical-e-learning/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Designing Practical E-Learning&quot;&gt;Designing Practical E-Learning &lt;/a&gt;post from the Virtual Lore blog of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;MattyBee. MattyBee is Matt Blackstock. Husband, dad, consultant, learning &amp;amp; development specialist and self-confessed geek.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/downloads/Insiders_Guide_To_Becoming_A_Rapid_E-Learning_Pro.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;The Insiders Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro&quot;&gt;The Insiders Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro&lt;/a&gt; - free e-book.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;The Rapid e-Learning Blog&quot;&gt;The Rapid e-Learning Blog&lt;/a&gt; is hosted by &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/about-tom/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Tom Kuhlmann&lt;/a&gt; who has over 15 years of hands-on experience in the training industry and currently runs the community at &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.articulate.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Articulate&quot;&gt;Articulate.&lt;/a&gt; Is a great blog to subscribe to for tips and tricks on building an e-Learning Course.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;There is a video that Tom&amp;#39;s links to in his Rapid e-Learning Blog above - around &amp;#39;When You&amp;#39;re Interested in Something, You&amp;#39;re Motivated to Learn - it&amp;#39;s about how children teach themselves and then teach other children - very interesting video from Ted&amp;#39;s (Teds website is listed under Finding Resources).&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/font&gt;  &lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;main section&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;widget Blog&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blog-posts hfeed&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;post hentry&quot;&gt;  &lt;h3 class=&quot;post-title entry-title&quot;&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/03/coaching-critical-thinking-to-think.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://pipwerks.com/2009/10/21/best-practices-in-e-learning/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Best Practices in eLearning&quot;&gt;Best Practices in eLearning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Learning Professionals</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Learning+Professionals</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Learning+Professionals</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:54:10 CDT</pubDate><description>I can hear you say &amp;#39;Learning Professionals&amp;#39;? Why is this under Finding Resoures? People are a huge source of resources online, there are many ways to connect to other teachers, technologists etc on the web.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.techlearning.com/blogs/24126&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;How To Connect Your Students Globally by Kim Cofino&quot;&gt;How To Connect Your Students Globally by Kim Cofino&lt;/a&gt; Great blog post about how to connect students globally to solve common problems.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://c4lpt.co.uk/connexions/100featured.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;100 Featured Learning Professionals Online&quot;&gt;100 Featured Learning Professionals Online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2009/09/do-you-follow.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Who do you follow?&quot;&gt;Who do you follow?&lt;/a&gt; from Learning with E&amp;#39;s &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://tweepml.org/follow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;tweepml&quot;&gt;tweepml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2009/100-incredibly-inspiring-blog-posts-for-educators/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;100 Inspiring Blog Posts for Educators&quot;&gt;100 Inspiring Blog Posts for Educators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/09/two-guides-for-constructing-pln.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Two Guides for Constructing and PLN&quot;&gt;Two Guides for Constructing and PLN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.thethinkingstick.com/stages-of-pln-adoption&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Stages of PLN Adoption&quot;&gt;Stages of PLN Adoption&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/2009/10/07/presto-how-to-build-a-pln-using-twitter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;How to build a PLN using Twitter&quot;&gt;How to build a PLN using Twitter&lt;/a&gt; from Shelley Terrell&amp;#39;s blog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://bethstill.edublogs.org/2009/10/18/how-my-pln-saved-the-day/#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;How My PLN Saved the Day&quot;&gt;How My PLN Saved the Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Online Facilitation</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Online+Facilitation</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Online+Facilitation</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:49:51 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Don&amp;#39;t forget to check out any attached documents at the bottom of the page.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://farr-integratingit.net/Trainings/StopPlagiarism/intro.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Use Technology to Promote Integrity and Battle Cheating and Plagiarism&quot;&gt;Use Technology to Promote Integrity and Battle Cheating and Plagiarism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://users.sa.chariot.net.au/%7Emichaelc/ttt/tttindex.htm#top&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;So You Want to Teach Online&quot;&gt;So You Want to Teach Online &lt;/a&gt;A great article by Micheal Coghlin from TAFE SA on online teaching using WebCT.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Facilitating_Online#31st_August_Looking_for_online_community:_Discussion_forums&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Wikiversity - Facilitating Online Course&quot;&gt;Wikiversity - Facilitating Online Course&lt;/a&gt; This course is designed to help people to access and interpret models, research, and develop professional expertise in online facilitation. After completing this course people should be confident in facilitating online and/or be able to critique and offer advice to other people in online facilitation. The next facilitated course started 27 July 2009 and runs to 4 December 2009.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.lehigh.edu/%7Eindiscus/main_overview.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Improving the Discussion Board&quot;&gt;Improving the Discussion Board&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; This report contains complete information about the design, offering, and assessment of a new American literature course in order to experiment with improving the discussion board -- including background material, a running narrative, handouts, eight student surveys with responses and commentary, and, especially, annotations of nearly 200 discussion board posts and exchanges. by Edward J. Gallagher &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.asaecenter.org/PublicationsResources/articledetail.cfm?ItemNumber=13572&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication Tools  &quot;&gt;Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication Tools&lt;/a&gt; As an online complement to their December 2003 Executive Update article,&amp;quot;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.asaecenter.org/knowledge/article.cfm?ID=2584&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beyond the Breakout Room: How Technology Can Help Sustain Community&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;quot;Soren Kaplan and Julia Lynn Ashley present a detailed view of some of the synchronous and asynchronous communication tools that associations can use to create a full, rich learning experience and sense of community for their members.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://knowledgetree.flexiblelearning.net.au/edition06/download/harris.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Facilitation Skills in an Online World&quot;&gt;Facilitation Skills in an Online World&lt;/a&gt; article by F Harris &lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Copyright &amp;copy; 2004 Harris F. The author assigns to the Knowledge Tree e-journal and educational non-profit institutions a non-exclusive license to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The author also grants to the Knowledge Tree e-journal a non-exclusive license to publish this document in electronic or print form within Knowledge Tree e-journal publications and/or the World Wide Web. Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the author.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/v8n3/pdf/v8n3_pelz.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Three Principles of Effective Online Pedagogy &lt;/a&gt;- a really interesting article and best of all - it talks about the students doing most of the work.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NLI0434d.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Online Classroom Dialogue Using Synchronous and Asynchronous Tools as a Scaffold for Deeper Learning&quot;&gt;Online Classroom Dialogue Using Synchronous and Asynchronous Tools as a Scaffold for Deeper Learning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.fullcirc.com/community/tooltour.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Full Circle Associates' Online Interaction Tool Tour&quot;&gt;Full Circle Associates&amp;#39; Online Interaction Tool Tour&lt;/a&gt; The Tool Tour is designed to give you a sense of the range of online interaction and collaboration tools available. Different tools are applied for different functions. There are a LOT of tools here. Feel free to skip around as time allows. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://frank.mtsu.edu/%7Ewebctsup/faculty/manual/WebCT_DiscussionBoard_Tips-Pedagogy.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Discussion Board Tips and Pedagogy&quot;&gt;Discussion Board Tips and Pedagogy&lt;/a&gt; This is a very useful article that contains sample rubrics, ideas for topics, advantages and disadvantages. From the Middle Tennessee State University.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.tulsacc.edu/dl/faculty/bb_tips/discussion_rubric1.doc+-+Similar+-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Sample Discussion Board Rubric&quot;&gt;Sample Discussion Board Rubric&lt;/a&gt; by Lynnda L Brown&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Online Facilitation Wiki&quot;&gt;Online Facilitation Wiki&lt;/a&gt; This wiki is a resource collection place for Nancy White, &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.fullcirc.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Full Circle Associates&lt;/a&gt; and an adjunct to the Online Facilitation list on Yahoogroups, founded in August 1999. Consider it a general playground around online facilitation and online community work. When I can, I will do client work here openly that may be useful to others. Consider it a shared resource. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/InstantMessaginginOnSiteandOnl/157440&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;    Instant Messaging in On-Site and Online Classes in Higher Education Instant Messaging in On-Site and Online Classes in Higher Education&quot;&gt;  	 Instant Messaging in On-Site and Online Classes in Higher Education Instant Messaging in On-Site and Online Classes in Higher Education&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttps://admin.connectpro.acrobat.com/_a751959191/p18182299/&quot; target=&quot;_self&quot; title=&quot;Learning in Virtual Worlds - Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier with Cynthia Calongne&quot;&gt;Learning in Virtual Worlds - Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier with Cynthia Calongne&lt;/a&gt; In this Keynote Session, Cynthia Calongne, also known as Lyr Lobo in Second Life, will offer perspectives on the use of virtual worlds for engaging learners. Calongne&amp;#39;s software engineering courses at Colorado Technical University include class and projects in Second Life. For thirteen years, she worked as a software engineer in support of Air Force Space Command and on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Her doctoral research specialized in the design of easy-to-use, immersive virtual reality systems. Today, her research includes games and game-based rubrics in education and in virtual worlds.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.learncentral.org/browse/events&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Learn Central&quot;&gt;Learn Central&lt;/a&gt; Site created by Elluminate with some good training and resources&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.techlearning.com/article/article.aspx?Id=8670&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Bloom's Taxonomy - Bloom's Digitally&quot;&gt;Bloom&amp;#39;s Taxonomy - Bloom&amp;#39;s Digitally&lt;/a&gt; by Andrew Churches&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/download/ng/file/group-661/n2304-online-discourse--4-in-eprimer-series-pdf.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Online Discourse&quot;&gt;Online Discourse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; - article on discussions in online courses. Authorship must be attributed to Mark Nichols, Laidlaw College, New Zealand.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://academics.rmu.edu/%7Etomei/taxonomy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;The Taxonomy for the Technology Domain&quot;&gt;The Taxonomy for the Technology Domain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.facultyfocus.com/free-reports/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Faculty Focus - Free Reports&quot;&gt;Faculty Focus - Free Reports&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;   &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/2182222/Handbook-on-Synchronous-ELearning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Handbook on Synchronous E-Learning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The discussion method is one of the most commonly used pedagogical  techniques in the online classroom. Discussion is widely used because it can  promote several types of &lt;b&gt;thinking&lt;/b&gt;-and certain types of thinking  especially those characterized as constructivist, are important in education.  Proper attention to the design, facilitation, and maintenance of an online  instructional discussion is critical to promote students&amp;#39; constructive thinking.  Questioning is a significant instructional design element for the promotion of  effective discussion. This article describes a theoretical framework for  designing questions for starting online discussion and follow-up questions to  maintain the discussion. This framework is placed within a broader context of  discussion within a constructivist, online environment. Numerous examples of  discussion questions which were gathered from experienced online instructors are  presented with the goal of preparing students and teachers to participate  effectively in online discussions.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.tcpd.org/Thornburg/Handouts.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.tcpd.org/Thornburg/Handouts.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;infin;  this site contains some wonderful articles:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &amp;#39;Campfires in Cyerspace: Primordial Metaphors for Learning in the 21st Century&amp;#39; which I found fascinating and really relevant &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &amp;#39;Redefining Teaching in a disintermedated World&amp;#39; redefining what education is today&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;A Web of Connections: Why the Read/Write Web Changes Everything&amp;#39; was a conference for educators held in May 2008 - though mostly focused towards primary and secondary teachers the information was still relevant to TAFE. One of the presenters will Will Richardson and he has a wiki that he runs his presentation from. There is lots of information, links etc on the wiki, so if you interested, go have a look at &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://willrichardson.wikispaces.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Will's Wiki&quot;&gt;Will&amp;#39;s Wiki&lt;/a&gt;. Will also has a blog which is interesting also worth having a look at -&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://weblogg-ed.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Will's Blog&quot;&gt;Will&amp;#39;s Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Stephen D. Brookfield and Jonathan Finkelstein met again for an intriguing conversation about education, and I thought you would enjoy hearing it. Thousands of educators listened to their last podcast on Critical Thinking. This time, Brookfield and Finkelstein explored a new way of looking at leadership that has important implications for how we teach or &amp;ldquo;lead&amp;rdquo; our courses, as well as how we teach our students to be leaders. The short podcast will interest anyone looking for ways to improve their facilitation skills and foster more inclusive learning communities &amp;mdash; online or offline. The discussion is a pre-cursor to the 7th Annual International Online Conference for Teaching and Learning (IOC2009) to be held March 30-31, 2009, during which Brookfield will address this topic further as part of his online keynote address. The podcast and keynote session are based on a recent book co-authored by Brookfield and Stephen Preskill, entitled &amp;quot;Learning as a Way of Leading: Lessons from the Struggle for Social Justice&amp;quot; (Jossey-Bass, 2008). Brookfield&amp;rsquo;s session is sponsored by Jossey-Bass. To listen to the podcast &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.internationalonlineconference.org/brookfield&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;click here&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Authors Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt recently spoke to LearningTimes Executive Producer Jonathan Finkelstein about assessing learners in online courses, and offered practical ideas for measuring learner progress and gauging understanding online &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.onlineteachingandlearning.com/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;to listen to the podcast, click here&quot;&gt;to listen to the podcast, click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com&lt;/a&gt; This is another Wiki about online facilitation&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://community.flexiblelearning.net.au/TeachingTrainingLearners/content/article_4729.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Top Tips for Online Facilitation&quot;&gt;Top Tips for Online Facilitation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; During LearnScope Online this forum and quiz focused on the &amp;#39;High and Low Lights&amp;#39; of online facilitation. Participants were asked to share their experience of &amp;#39;Things to do and things to avoid&amp;#39; in online facilitation and were asked to vote in an online poll on &amp;#39;things which motivate you online&amp;#39;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://community.flexiblelearning.net.au/TechnologiesforLearning/content/article_6883.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;What's New in E-Learning Technologies&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s New in E-Learning Technologies &lt;/a&gt;(from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework Site)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://marketing.nettrekker.com/images/pdf/ebook/ebook_-_web_2_0.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;10 Tips to Keep Students Safe in a Web 2.0 World&quot;&gt;10 Tips to Keep Students Safe in a Web 2.0 World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Finding/Creating Resources</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Finding%2FCreating+Resources</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Finding%2FCreating+Resources</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:43:23 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;There are heaps and heaps of resources &amp;#39;out there&amp;#39; to use - but what is the best way of finding them, how do you find things to use? On this, and the attached pages are many places to go to find resources.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Welcome to &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.linksforeducators.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Links for Educators&quot;&gt;Links for Educators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;is our goal to provide educators with the most up-to-date and latest websites  available. It is created by teachers and edited by teachers for teachers. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…&quot;&gt;Larry Ferlazzo&amp;rsquo;s Websites of the Day&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt; has great 10 best lists - including &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/05/04/the-best-websites-to-teach-learn-life-skills/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;10 best websites to teach learn life skills&quot;&gt;10 best websites to teach learn life skills&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.archive.org/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt; a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Free access is provided to researchers, historians, scholars and the general public.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://digg.com/about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Digg&quot;&gt;Digg&lt;/a&gt; is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won&amp;rsquo;t find editors at Digg &amp;mdash; we&amp;rsquo;re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we&amp;rsquo;re changing the way people consume information online.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://lorn.flexiblelearning.net.au/Home.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;LORN&quot;&gt;LORN&lt;/a&gt; is the Learning Object Repository Network - with heaps of free resources available.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Wikimedia Commons&quot;&gt;Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt; A database of &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Special:Statistics&quot;&gt;4,194,088&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia&quot;&gt;freely usable&lt;/a&gt; media files to which &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Commons:Welcome&quot;&gt;anyone can contribute&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.scribd.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Scribd&quot;&gt;Scribd&lt;/a&gt; Scribd is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.slideshare.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Slideshare&quot;&gt;Slideshare&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations and Word documents on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://creativenerds.co.uk/freebies/25-free-must-download-design-programs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;25 Free Must Download Design Programs&quot;&gt;25 Free Must Download Design Programs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://classtools.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;classtools.net is a&quot;&gt;classtools.net&lt;/a&gt; is a website that allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.bubbl.us/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;bubbl.us&quot;&gt;bubbl.us&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mindmapping software&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://aceonlineschools.com/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Ace Online Schools&quot;&gt;Ace Online Schools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Wikiversity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-websites-with-free-cool-media-clips-for-powerpoint/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;10 Places To Get Cool Media Clips For PowerPoint Presentations&quot;&gt;10 Places To Get Cool Media Clips For PowerPoint Presentations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Free Technology Toolkit for UDL in All Classrooms&quot;&gt;Free Technology Toolkit for UDL in All Classrooms&lt;/a&gt; Free Technology Toolkit for UDL in All Classrooms - has an ubundance of tools for Study Skills, Literacy, Writing, Collaborative, Maths etc.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://oedb.org/library/features/236-open-courseware-collections&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos&quot;&gt;Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://marynabadenhorst.globalteacher.org.au/royalty-free-stuff/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Royalty Free Stuff&quot;&gt;Royalty Free Stuff&lt;/a&gt; &lt;h3&gt;Mixtures of free stuff andCollections of free photos, sounds, music, gifs, clipart, fonts, icons, satellite images, cartoons, graphics, animations, etc.&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://universityonline.org/100-interesting-and-fun-open-courses-you-wished-you%E2%80%99d-taken-in-college/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;University Online&quot;&gt;University Online&lt;/a&gt; 100 Interesting and Fun Open Courses you wish you&amp;#39;d taken in college.&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>You Tube</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/You+Tube</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/You+Tube</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:42:08 CDT</pubDate><description>Smart Copy - The Official Guide to Copyright Issues for Australian Schools and TAFE - has information on &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/cache/offonce/pid/856;jsessionid=89DE2ADB5900677E2106B652E5E3135C&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Using YouTube&quot;&gt;Using YouTube&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/859&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Using TeacherTube&quot;&gt;Using TeacherTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/03/uc-berkeley-puts-courses-on-youtube/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;UC Berkeley Puts Courses On YouTube&quot;&gt;UC Berkeley Puts Courses On YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/ReadingLists/youtube.html&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/100-best-youtube-videos-for-teachers/&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l72UFXqa8ZU&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1480&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;80+ Videos for Tech. &amp; Media Literacy &quot;&gt;80+ Videos for Tech. &amp;amp; Media Literacy &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://classtools.net/twitter/tweet.htm?url=http://tipline.blogspot.com/2009/05/linking-to-specific-spot-in-youtube.html&amp;message=How%2520to%2520point%2520students%2520to%2520different%2520spots%2520in%2520a%2520YouTube%2520video&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Linking to a specifc spot in youtube video&quot;&gt;Linking to a specifc spot in youtube video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The following YouTube video has some great instructions on how to embed a YouTube into a PowerPoint (2007) Show - I&amp;#39;ve added some instructions underneath, as it is hard to watch and do at the same time !! It might be best to watch the video first and then have a try.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Blogs</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Blogs</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Blogs</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:54:38 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;What is a Blog?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#39; A &lt;b&gt;blog&lt;/b&gt; (a &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_%28grammar%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Contraction (grammar)&quot;&gt;contraction&lt;/a&gt; of the term &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;weblog&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) is a type of &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Website&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. &amp;quot;Blog&amp;quot; can also be used as a verb, meaning &lt;i&gt;to maintain or add content to a blog&amp;#39;&lt;/i&gt;.from &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Wikipedia&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world. Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules. In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what&amp;#39;s new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.&amp;#39; from &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Blogger&quot;&gt;Blogger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is a letter to a Blogger to their Mum explaining what a Blog is - I love it! from &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://blogpond.com.au/2007/07/31/what-is-a-blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Dipping into the Blogpond&quot;&gt;Dipping into the Blogpond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Watch this video on Blogs from In Plain English:&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The non tech blog ? &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://whiteafrican.com/2009/03/12/the-blackboard-blogger-of-monrovia/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;The Blackboard Blogger of Monrovia&quot;&gt;The Blackboard Blogger of Monrovia &lt;/a&gt;from the &amp;#39;White African&amp;#39; blog - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Erik Hersman&amp;#39;s blog&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Uses for a Blog:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Reflection&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Promotion (art, writing)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Sharing (photos, thoughts)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;There are many, many examples, here are some that I liked:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A group of six boys blog about the books they are currently reading in &lt;a href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/A+group+of+six+boys+blog+about+the+books+they+are+currently+reading.&quot; target=&quot;_self&quot; title=&quot;Boys Blogging Books&quot;&gt;Boys Blogging Books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Teaching Tips.com has a great post on &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.teachingtips.com/blog/2008/07/21/50-useful-blogging-tools-for-teachers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;50 Useful Blogging Tools&quot;&gt;50 Useful Blogging Tools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To make your Taxes less Taxing, check out &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Don't mess with Taxes&quot;&gt;Don&amp;#39;t mess with Taxes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Why Blog - by David Truss&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Uses for Blogs in Education:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Great post on blogging from&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Blogging#BlogScoringChecklist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;'Digitally Speaking'&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;Digitally Speaking&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt; which includes checklists for marking student blogs and handouts to structure successful blogging experiences for students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The blog by J Black - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://web20intheclassroom.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogging-in-classroom-why-how-and-lots.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Web 2.0 in the Classroom&quot;&gt;Web 2.0 in the Classroom&lt;/a&gt; has an excellent post on&lt;u&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://web20intheclassroom.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogging-in-classroom-why-how-and-lots.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; Using Blogs to Promote Authentic Learning in the Classroom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://web20intheclassroom.blogspot.com/2008/10/ways-to-use-blogs-in-your-classroom-and.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Ways to use Blogs in your classroom&quot;&gt;Ways to use Blogs in your classroom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Watch this video on using Web2.0 tools for students writing&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;g posts with new trends! &lt;a href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Blogs&quot; target=&quot;_self&quot;&gt;Swineblogger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/15-free-tools-for-better-blogging-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;15 Free Tools for Better Blogging&quot;&gt;15 Free Tools for Better Blogging&lt;/a&gt; Teachers and other education professionals who are interested in starting their own blog or integrating blogging into a classroom can find many online resources to improve their blogging experience. Many of these resources are free and easy to implement on a variety of platforms. Here are 15 no-cost tools to explore today. This is a guest post from&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/author/karen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Karen Schweitzer&lt;/a&gt;. Karen is the About.com Guide to Business School.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bits and Pieces</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Bits+and+Pieces</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Bits+and+Pieces</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:12:20 CDT</pubDate><description>In here are &amp;#39;Bits and Pieces&amp;#39; that ticked my fancy, floated my boat and caught my attention, but didn&amp;#39;t know where to put them!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.dbachrach.com/showyourself/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Show Yourself Widget&quot;&gt;Show Yourself Widget&lt;/a&gt; ShowYourself is a simple to make, easy, free and fun utility to help establish your identity across the web. Have a Flickr account and a Facebook and AIM? Combine all your profiles on the web into one attractive widget that you can put on your blog, your myspace or anywhere on the web.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/03/grading&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Getting Out of Grading &quot;&gt;Getting Out of Grading &lt;/a&gt;Cathy Davidson, professor at Duke University, announced on her blog last week that she was going to give students the power to  earn A&amp;#39;s or some other grade based on a simple formula in which she wouldn&amp;#39;t  play much of a role&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://weblogg-ed.com/2008/waking-up-with-a-cognitive-surplus/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Clay Shirkey Video&quot;&gt;Clay Shirkey Video&lt;/a&gt; from Web 2.0 Conference&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Bits+and+Pieces&quot; target=&quot;_self&quot; title=&quot;Webtools for disabilities&quot;&gt;Webtools for disabilities&lt;/a&gt; A useful link for teaching people with disabilities or for providing accessibility when building e-learning resources&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.scribblemaps.com/#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Scribble Maps&quot;&gt;Scribble Maps&lt;/a&gt; Scribble Maps is the quick and easy way to rapidly make and share maps!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://blog.litmos.com/2009/09/rise-and-rise-of-online-learning.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;the rise and rise of online learning&quot;&gt;the rise and rise of online learning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Student Video Keynote for the Net Generation Education Project at &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.necc2008.org/video/no-future-left-behind&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;NECC Ning&quot;&gt;NECC Ning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From Ted&amp;#39;s Talks - Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Web 2.0 Tools</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Web+2.0+Tools</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Web+2.0+Tools</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:11:11 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;This page contains lots of different information on Web 2.0 tools.  Don&amp;#39;t forget to look at specific pages under this heading on specific tools - if you have any &amp;#39;expertise&amp;#39; in these tools, then feel free to add information to the pages.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;There are also documents attached to the very bottom of this page.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Facebook</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Facebook</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Facebook</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:07:38 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.collegedegree.com/library/college-life/15-facebook-apps-perfect-for-online-education&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;The Facebook Classroom: 25 Facebook Apps That Are Perfect for Online Education&quot;&gt;The Facebook Classroom: 25 Facebook Apps That Are Perfect for Online Education&lt;/a&gt; With so many students, teachers, and librarians on Facebook these days, the social media site has become somewhat of a platform, offering developers a way to create and share applications for education. This, of course, is great news for online education, as it provides all sorts of great tools designed to make learning and administration easier. Check out these applications that represent some of the ideal tools Facebook has to offer for online education. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://stephencuyos.com/?p=835&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;10 Lessons I learned from Farmville&quot;&gt;10 Lessons I learned from Farmville&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Videos</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Videos</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Videos</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:02:20 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.ted.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Teds&quot;&gt;Teds&lt;/a&gt; is a website on Inspired talks by the worlds great thinkers and doers. Jill Gordon has listed &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://classtools.net/twitter/tweet.php?message=25%2520Incredible%2520TED%2520Talks%2520for%2520Educators&amp;url=http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2009/25-incredible-ted-talks-for-educators/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;25 Incredible Teds talks for Educators&quot;&gt;25 Incredible Teds talks for Educators&lt;/a&gt; on her blog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.teachertube.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;TeacherTube&quot;&gt;TeacherTube&lt;/a&gt; Our goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.videojug.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Videojug&quot;&gt;Videojug&lt;/a&gt; has grown into the world&amp;rsquo;s most comprehensive library of free factual video content online.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://forum-network.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Forum Network&quot;&gt;Forum Network&lt;/a&gt; free lecture videos&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://info.ulrich-schrader.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Ulrich Schrader's&quot;&gt;Ulrich Schrader&amp;#39;s&lt;/a&gt; Website, a blog post with a list of portals of recorded acadenmic lectures and talks.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://academicearth.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Academic Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Quote:Thousands of  video lectures from the world&amp;#39;s top scholars Many different subjects.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://lecturefox.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;LectureFox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mostly physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, but look also under faculty mix. There are some great lectures there, too&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://mitworld.mit.edu/browse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;MIT World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Talks about diverse  topics covered by well-known speakers and experts in the field&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://oyc.yale.edu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Open Yale Courses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Free and open access  to introductory courses at Yale University.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Princeton University  WebMedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Long list of recorded lectures. Many subjects.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1110&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Royal Society  TV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Public events and prize lectures of the Royal Society&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.ted.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;TED talks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;My all-time favorite site for really great mind-expanding talks. They are short but very worth listening to. Great variety of subjects.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://videolectures.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;VideoLectures.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Many different  subjects, the focus is on computer science&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://webcast.berkeley.edu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Webcast.Berkeley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;UC Berkeley  current and archived course and recorded special events&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.youtube.com/edu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;YouTube - Edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Videos from  colleges and university partners. Not just lectures and talks, but other videos  as well.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1480&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;80+ Videos for Tech. &amp; Media Literacy &quot;&gt;80+ Videos for Tech. &amp;amp; Media Literacy &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#39;In Plain English&amp;#39; - I loved these videos that explain really clearly different things. The first one here is on Podcasting - there is a whole series of them. &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.commoncraft.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Common Craft&quot;&gt;Common Craft&lt;/a&gt; is a website that you can go to - to access the range of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;In Plain English&amp;#39; videos. T&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;hey have a range of video&amp;#39;s that you can use free - also if you want to use the &amp;#39;beefed up&amp;#39; versions you can purchase licenced versions. Make sure to visit their &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.commoncraft.com/sharing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;sharing&quot;&gt;sharing&lt;/a&gt; page about the rules and regulations of sharing videos.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.teachersdomain.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;teachers'domain&quot;&gt;teachers&amp;#39;domain &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Teachers&amp;#39; Domain is a extensive library of free digital media resources produced  by public television, designed for classroom use and professional development.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Wikis</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Wikis</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Wikis</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:56:24 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;In Plain English&amp;#39; - Here is one on Wiki&amp;#39;s - I think this will explain all.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;To make a long story short, wikis are simply websites that erase the boundaries between authors and readers. A wiki can be changed by anyone who bothers to change it. Just click EDIT and hammer away. Simple. Quick. Democratic. Wiki.&amp;#39; - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;from an article on Matt Barton&amp;#39;s wiki&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.mattbarton.net/tikiwiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Embrace the Wiki Way&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;A wiki is a page or collection of &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Web page&quot;&gt;Web pages&lt;/a&gt; designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Markup language&quot;&gt;markup language&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#cite_note-0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#cite_note-Britannica-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; Wikis are often used to create &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboration&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Collaboration&quot;&gt;collaborative&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Website&quot;&gt;websites&lt;/a&gt; and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Wikipedia&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; is one of the best-known wikis.&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#cite_note-Britannica-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; Wikis are used in business to provide &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intranet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Intranet&quot;&gt;intranet&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Management&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Knowledge Management&quot;&gt;Knowledge Management&lt;/a&gt; systems. &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Ward Cunningham&quot;&gt;Ward Cunningham&lt;/a&gt;, the developer of the first &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_software&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Wiki software&quot;&gt;wiki software&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;WikiWikiWeb&quot;&gt;WikiWikiWeb&lt;/a&gt;, originally described it as &amp;quot;the simplest online database that could possibly work&amp;quot;.&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#cite_note-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;b&gt;from &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Wikipedia&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;A wiki is web software designed for collaboration. Unlike a traditional website where pages can only be read, in a wiki everyone can edit, update and append pages with new information and without knowing HTML.&amp;#39; &lt;b&gt;from &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.jot.com/tours/hosted-wiki/1-wiki-definition.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Jotspot&quot;&gt;Jotspot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Watch the &amp;#39;Wikis - In Plain English&amp;#39; Video on You Tube&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Watch the pbWiki - &amp;#39;What is a Wiki&amp;#39; video on You Tube&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Uses for a wiki:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Think of a situation that you want people to collaborate and share information and a wiki could be used. If you search for a topic, there is probably a wiki for it - below are some examples of the diverse range of uses for wikis: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Running a Presentation&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://willrichardson.wikispaces.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Will's Wiki&quot;&gt;Will&amp;#39;s Wiki&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Will Richardson runs his presentations from his wiki which is a great idea (what I am doing today) people can access all the information afterwards if they want to go back to things. This could be how you run your class - off a wiki - store all your info in the one place.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sharing/Gathering Intelligence&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.ikiw.org/2008/06/10/why-does-the-cia-keep-top-secret-intelligence-in-a-wiki/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;'Why does the CIA keep top secret intelligence in a wiki'&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;Why does the CIA keep top secret intelligence in a wiki&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt; article from &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.ikiw.org/stewart/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;'Future Changes'&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;Future Changes&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fun&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Who%27s_Who_in_the_New_Jedi_Order&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Wookieepedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - the &amp;#39;Star Wars&amp;#39; wiki&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://theyoungandtherestless.wetpaint.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;The Young and the Restless Wiki&quot;&gt;The Young and the Restless Wiki &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;had to put this one in !!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Staff Intranet&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.e-gineer.com/v2/blog/2007/08/our-intranet-wiki-case-study-of-wiki.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Our Intranet, the wiki: A Case Study on how a wiki changed an Organisation&quot;&gt;Our Intranet, the wiki: Case Study of a wiki changing an Enterprise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; -  &lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.janssen-cilag.com.au/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Janssen-Cilag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is a research based pharmaceutical companies in Australia, this article talks about how they are using a wiki for their staff intranet.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://onceuponateacher.blogspot.com/2009/10/kicking-off-with-wiki.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Elementary School&quot;&gt;Chets Creek Elementary School&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Blog post on creating a Teacher Information Wiki&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Community Registry&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://bushfireaid.wikispaces.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Bushfire Aid Wiki&quot;&gt;Bushfire Aid Wiki &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;was set up &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;to allow both donors and recipients to register their interest in a way that won&amp;#39;t be a strain on the resources of the various authorities.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;and, of course, wikis can be used in Education&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Uses for a wiki in Education:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.mattbarton.net/tikiwiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Embrace the Wiki Way&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt; - &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Matt Barton&amp;#39;s article on how to&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt; &amp;quot;Embrace the Wiki Way&amp;#39;&lt;/b&gt; has some great ideas on what you might use a wiki for:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/wikiideas1.cfm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;TeachersFirst&quot;&gt;TeachersFirst&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; has great wiki ideas for the classroom.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://k12onlineconference.org/?p=38&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Wiki Collaboration Across the Curriculum&quot;&gt;Wiki Collaboration Across the Curriculum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; a presentation at the K12 Online Conference 2008 by Victoria A Davis a teacher and technology administrator at Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-i-use-wikis-what-do-you-do.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;The Cool Cat Teacher Blog&quot;&gt;The Cool Cat Teacher Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; has ideas on using Wikis in the classroom - this is Vicki&amp;#39;s blog (see presentation above)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_use_a_wiki_to_facilitate_learning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;How to use a wiki to facilitate learning&quot;&gt;How to use a wiki to facilitate learning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; is a wiki that dicusses ways to use wikis in Education, Pedagogical Potential, Problem Potential and Wiki Culture&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=979&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Using Wikis to catalog protest songs&quot;&gt;Using Wikis to catalog protest songs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is a lesson plan that incorporates the use of wikis&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://misstarvin.wetpaint.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;El Mundo Tarvin&quot;&gt;El Mundo Tarvin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is a wiki for a History Class&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://welkerswikinomics.wetpaint.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Welkers Wikinomics&quot;&gt;Welkers Wikinomics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is a wiki for students and teachers of Economics&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://aquasquad.wetpaint.com/page/tips+to+save+water&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Aquasquad&quot;&gt;Aquasquad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; A class wiki on a saving water project.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://digiteen.wikispaces.com/Digital+Communication&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Digital Communication Wiki - &quot;&gt;Digital Communication Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#333333&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt; A class wiki with the Aim: To create a &amp;#39;c-book&amp;#39; on what it means to be a digital citizen in  the 21st century&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.bethknittle.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Beth's Wiki&quot;&gt;Beth&amp;#39;s Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; or &lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://www.bethknittle.net/WP_Blog/?p=173&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Beth's Blog&quot;&gt;Beth&amp;#39;s Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; I liked this blog and wiki from Beth - Thought&amp;#39;s on Technology in the Classroom&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://classroomtechtrends.wetpaint.com/thread&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Classroom Trends in 2.0&quot;&gt;Classroom Trends in 2.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; An wiki for educators&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;10 Interesting Ways to use a Wiki in a Classroom by &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://tbarrett.edublogs.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Tom Barrett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#be12e0&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rationale for Using Wikis and Blogs in the Classroom&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Jason De Nys has a marvellous powerpoint on - a look at the rationale for using wikis and blogs in the classroom (&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Jason de Nys April, 2008) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#be12e0&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttp://langwitches.org/blog/2009/10/09/thoughts-on-setting-up-a-student-created-wiki/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Thoughts on setting up a student created wiki&quot;&gt;Thoughts on setting up a student created wiki&lt;/a&gt; &lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;from Langwitches Blog&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://swinilearn.wetpaint.comhttps://jdorman.wikispaces.com/file/view/Wikispaces+Getting+Started+1.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_self&quot; title=&quot;Getting Started with your Wikispaces&quot;&gt;Getting Started with your Wikispaces&lt;/a&gt; a pdf that will take you through getting up and running with a wiki&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Creating Resources</title><link>http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Creating+Resources</link><author>limms</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://swinilearn.wetpaint.com/page/Creating+Resources</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:37:04 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; 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