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Mark Pilgrim wrote Dive Into Python (bookmarked elsewhere in this collection) and here he is writing an emerging O'Reilly Book called "HTML5: up and running" which will be released in a similar way ... in paper with on-line version available under Creative Commons. It is now being maintained by the community.

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I will be following this with interest: "Want to find out how to write a computer game? Interested in learning programming? Curious about object-oriented programming and Java? Heard about Greenfoot, but don’t really know what it is? Teaching programming to others?"

Not because I need to lean Java, but because coding has dropped out of favour in ICT at schools and several people have recently asked for it to be added back.

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"Last year it seemed like every new LMS company was trying to position itself as the “Facebook” of online learning. Then Facebook started to make everyone angry (or bored, or both), and we saw that idea dry up pretty quick (well, for the most part). The new catch phrase battle seems to be heating up over the words “open” and “free.” Both Pearson and Blackboard are racing to establish either part or all of their services as open and/or free."

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Probably quite a lot!

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"A short description of how to start a PLN" OurSocialVoice on YouTube. Shared by Kyle Pace (www.kylepace.com) and Richard Byrne of www.freetech4teachers.com.

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"Earlier today Kyle Pace shared a link on Twitter with the phrase "great video to share, Sketchy Explanation: Starting a PLN." I just found the time to watch the video and Kyle is right it is a good video. The video uses sketches and words to explain the concepts of a PLN (personal learning network), how a PLN can improve your teaching practice, and how to go about creating a PLN. "\n\nThe video is nice and I'll be adding a seperate bookmark for it.

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Another curated collection of Free Learning Tools that you can use to build your own PLE or recommend to students building theirs. From Zaid Ali Alsagoff, @zaidlearn.

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"Jorum is a free online service providing access to teaching and learning resources, for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions." Via JSICMail Owners Announce mailing list.

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"This site is designed to help both students and tutors understand and overcome the challenges of group work. The learning path involves a series of 10 episodes, taking five students through the journey of a group work project. Each episode highlights a d

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Simple and elegant: create an instant chatroom with a tiny-url like URL. Invite some members and chat, then throw away. Login with your Twitter name if you like. AJ Cann reckons there is potential for peer support. We'll see!

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A list of free microsoft tools. Thanks to lifehacker for the link.

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Moodle site that hosts free videos and podcasts from the University of Berkeley.

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"The OpenLearn website gives free access to course materials from The Open University. The LearningSpace is open to learners anywhere in the world." There's a lot of stuff here!

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Community page for the collaborative planning of education projects linked with the development of free content and open education resources

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Interesting set of web pages on opera.dev on web standards covering history, web design, html. Form opera.dev with hopefully more to come. Acknowledgements to Molly @ molly.com http://tinyurl.com/6hak2r. Could be a good source of course materials.

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Ideas for using web resources instead of textbooks for teaching. On | TeachingTips.com: Stumbled upon via OUseful.info.

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On-line drawing tool discovered via OUseful.

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"Doctype is a Google-sponsored open encyclopedia and reference library for developers of web applications." Very techy: more a dictionary than a tutorial but a good place for looking stuff up which anyone can edit. Good for cross browser capabilities.

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"Does what it says on the tin". Online subscription course consisting of podcasts, screencasts and an example application. Registration needed. Discovered via list apart

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DiffMerge is an application to visually compare and merge files for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix.

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