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"Wptuts+ is a site dedicated to teaching people how to use WordPress, develop widgets, plugins and themes, successfully scale sites, find interesting WordPress resources, and build a freelance business around the platform. Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call "home", and it's by far and away the most successful blogging platform online."

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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 asked for suggestions for a replacement for Netskills TONIC and Chris Hall (@chris_hall) passed on this recommendation from one of his students: BBC WebWise. This is a beginner's course aimed at adults who are new to computers and the internet. It has a very wide brief which seems to be the closest to TONIC in it's range of topics. Very high-quality resources as well as you'd expect from the BBC. Although not a direct replacement, WebWise was the best alternative that I have come across so far, and is the one I will be using with my EG-152 class this year (I will be linking to the Internet Detective and OU Safari too).

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"Last month I did a talk at the Campus Party, one of the biggest technology events of the world, talking about Fireworks, HTML5 and CSS3. It was very nice, the receptivity of the audience was sensational, and thinking that many of you would also like to see the contents of the workshop, so decided to write a full case study and share here on the blog."

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A resource for developers looking to put HTML5 to use today, including information on specific features and when to use them in your apps.

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Definitive reference to the JavaScript language. Bookmark so you have somewhere to lookup the properties and methods of the JavaScript objects you are working with. Part of the Mozilla Developer Network, which is a useful resource in itself. The "learning" resources are worth a look.

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"This website provides an introduction to digital collections designed for education. They are mainly aimed at university students, researchers and librarians but many of the online archives are open to anyone. The collections cover areas such as history, social sciences, or science and engineering and include, for example, journals, newspapers and images."

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A new social network from google with a more fine-grained relationships model than twitter or facebook called circles.God sharing features and also useful connectivity features for collaboration such as hangouts. +1 button on web sites makes it easy to share when web browsing and control who you share with.

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Presentation used for Briefing 3. You will need flash to view!

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A sadly now defunct cataloguing service for the internet. Although the service closed in July 2011 and no new links have been added since then, it may still provide a useful jumping off point.

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"Objective tests require a user to choose or provide a response to a question whose correct answer is predetermined. Such a question might require a student to :

* select a solution from a set of choices (MCQ, true-false, matching)
* identify an object or position (graphical hotspot) or
* supply brief numeric or text responses (text input)

Because the correct answers to objective test questions are pre-determined, they are well suited to the many forms of CAA that involve automated marking. The electronic marking of the responses is completely non-subjective as no judgement has to be made on the correctness or otherwise of an answer at the time of marking. However, it is worth noting that in terms of in-built bias, an objective test is only as objective as the test's designer makes it. The tutorial below offers an introduction to a selection of question types in popular use with advice on construction and best practice. As the question type most commonly associated with CAA is multiple choice, particular emphasis has been given to this and should be viewed first. The principles detailed within that section should however, be of use when considering other types. "

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Cited by Paul Latreille in his SALT Seminar on Large Group Assessment and Feedback, 25th February 2011.

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Open Educational Resources (OERs) are increasingly being made available by Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) institutions. They are resources licensed in a way such that they can be re-used, re-purposed, re-mixed and re-distributed. There are a number of license options for individuals or organisations considering releasing OERs, perhaps the most common being various iterations of the Creative Commons license. This infoKit, as with the whole of the JISC infoNet website, is itself released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.



There are a number of considerations to take into account when dealing with OERs. These range from specific technical issues to barriers and enablers to institutional adoption. This infoKit aims to both inform and explain OERs and the issues surrounding them for managers, academics and those in learning support. It is aimed at senior managers, learning technologists, technical staff and educators with an interest in releasing OERs to the
educational community.
The Pilot Programme: OER Release Outputs contains links to the relevant project pages and resource.

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@suifaijohnmak has created a list of references for weeks 1 and 2 of #plen2010. Includes the readings and a selection of the conversations, resources, etc that have been shared. Hopefully this will continue to be developed.

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YouTube - BSCESupport's Channel - TechLunch 3

"TechLunch 3 deals with concept mapping and the software CmapTools that is well-suited to generate concept maps."

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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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If you visit this site you'll see on the home page the famous Web2.0 tools image that has become a cliche in e-Learning presentations. Nonetheless, this comprehensive collection of free to use tools, curated by Paul Andrews, is a useful resource for people wishing to build a PLE or inform students what tools they might want to use in their own PLEs. \n\nThanks to PLENK2010 link gopher @pgsimoes for tweeting this. It was new to me, but looking at the Facebook likes page not new to my colleagues at Swansea - and Paul only lives 50 miles down the road in Newport Wales!

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In Their Own Words: British Novelists. Another great resource from the BBC and OU. Dig further for an extensive archive of radio and television interviews: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/; and an OU OpenLearn site to support the series: http://www.o

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"Social media overdrive and can cause social media overload. The dizzying speed of communication on social media platforms makes it tough to keep up with. It doesn't matter if you're purely a Facebook user, a die-hard Digg fanatic, a LinkedIn addict or so

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