News Links: Educational Technology and Distance Learning

New Resources Available-

• Rare written works go online-

• MIT makes research available on the web-

• YouTube EDU- YouTube EDU is the new Educational version of YouTube which features videos from various College and University partners on YouTube-

• Common Cartridge news

• Virtual Operating Room in Second Life- Educause-

• Twitter (Micro Blogging) As a Learning Tool. Really. From ASTD-

• Pico Projectors- will these change education- I expect so.-

• The Semantic Web and E-learning

• How to Teach Yourself About Social Media When J-Schools Fail- from Mediashift (PBS)

• ID’s-Instructional Designers- as IA’s- Information Architects-

• Universities “irrelevant” by 2010?

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