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This was posted to the TechRhet listserv by Alice J. Robinson (copied verbatim from her email):

A friend just sent me this interesting tool for discussion and debate across the web. It seems to be a computational model similar to the way Wikipedia authors and community members discuss claim-worthiness.

http://confront.intel-research.net/Think_Link.html

Jane Hart, founder of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, offer a directory of over 3,000 learning tools--free, open source, and commercial--in 25 main categories for formal and informal learning.

The site also features a list of the "top 100," as voted on by 176 "learning professionals."

A really smart article from Campus Technology about how to grade an online conversation. Useful ideas for many online professors!

Learning in the Webiverse: How Do You Grade a Conversation?

Former English professor Trent Batson notes that faculty might look for the following conversational elements:

An interesting look at how web 2.0 is changing the way we think about research: http://hoefler.wikispaces.com/Research+2.0.

A colleague recently asked about using Twitter in the classroom, so I thought I'd share some sites here.

•  This is one of the better ones: http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/.
• more to come...!

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Hi, all.

We've heard from Dr. Helen Padgett, President Elect of ISTE, and she has given us a national and international context for the work that we do within the NYSUT Committee on Educational Technology. I've also attended several "The Way Forward" workshops with Stan Silverman and our friend Joe Pesavento, and they've been spreading the word about the state's tech plan initiatives.

Here are some FREE software programs for students -- and for professors too if you're looking for new or free programs to try out!

• PortableApps.com -- This site lets students download many programs, including Mozilla's Firefox browser and the OpenOffice suite (as well as several of the other programs listed below).

  All of the software can be downloaded onto and run from a flash drive -- VERY useful for students, who may or may not have regular access to a single computer -- and students can download all or some of the applications.