Here is the news

Nothing special, but I quite liked

• 100 top elearning resources at Jane Knight's Blog
• Free software for the mac at local boy Simon Elliott's site
• James Clay experiencing how the other half live at his holiday blog

.....and anything about Mr Obama's victory of course
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So called "Low Threshold Applications"

Came across this piece of jargon today, defined as:

"A Low Threshold Application (LTA) is a teaching/learning application of information technology that is reliable, accessible, easy to learn, non-intimidating and (incrementally) inexpensive."

(from The Teaching, Learning and Technology group/ which has a list of 50 ideas/tips/applications/little tutorials, though with an American focus.

Anyway, the emphasis is on things that are easy to learn, easy to use, free or cheap,or likely to use things that are already on your computer.

Please tell us what you'd add to this list....

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Got this one from Learning Times, an online community of teachers.
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Welcome to the Foothills of eL

Here I am writing to you from a little FE college in the far West of the UK (ok, a little FE college that's now part of a bigger one). eL is short for eLearning, which is short for something else, I suppose.

Anyway, I should have done this ages ago - a blog of ideas for using eLearning and ICT in teaching, in a college. I'm speaking to my colleagues, but anyone else is welcome.

There are plenty of blogs around to keep you up with the cutting edge of eLearning - have a look right for headlines from a couple of the best. Read more!