Embrace wireless technology in the classroom. If you don't have the budget to buy expensive polling hardware, Poll Everywhere is a great, cheap tool to add a new dimension to your lessons. Ask a poll question, have your students or participants text their answer using their cell phones. Then watch an instant graph compile, tallying your votes. Encourages participation & makes lectures interactive
This directory from the UK also ran a vote for Top 100 in 2007, and is repeating the vote in 2008 - tools that can be used for creating learning and performance support solutions as well as for managing your own personal learning.
Article which summarizes Web 2.0 usage and finds that it's ability to interconnect *people* is being underused in traditional learning environments. The author suggests that the ability to make use of such networks will be an important skill for future generations.
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