It only took Google a few weeks after I professed my love for Google Notebook to announce that it was stopping development of this great service. And it only took a few more days for the online world to step up to the plate and offer alternatives.

Prominent EDU blogger and researcher Martin Weller proposed an interesting experiment in collaborative research leveraging the power of online communities to help bring toget

An interesting post by Martin Weller, a prominent blogger academic, mentions a trend (personal to him) in increase in blogging being related to a decrease in academic publications. And this, according to him, is a good thing. I agree.

An interesting experiment by a practicing digital ethnographer in the best tools for notetaking in qualitative projects. There is some exciting about the simplicity of some of these free tools when compared to the cumbersome unfriendliness of the QDA software.

I just came across a new book called how Wikipedia works. It is available via Amazon but also free on http://www.howwikipediaworks.com/.

It describes the editorial process of Wikipedia and gives many useful tips to its users.

LearnHub (formerly Nuuvo) relaunched recently as an interesting social learning and teaching space. Although it provides space for schools, it is particularly interesting for individual learners and teachers who can create communities and learn from each others.

What was the last time you found something eggregiously inaccurate on Wikipedia? And if the biggest problem in education is the occasional inaccurate information what happened to the skills focus of the last decades?

I have often recommended academic.live.com by Microsoft as a worthy rival to Google Scholar. At the very least, it was superior in its interface and sorting capabilities. Unfortunately, it provided much less relevant results in the humanities (focusing on more recent publications).

We live in exciting times. About 7 years ago (in the days of dialup internet) I gave a talk at a conference on teaching Slavonic languages and predicted that once broadband is more readily available, teaching languages online will be revolutionized because we will be able to exchange voice and eventually video which are essential to language learning.