The beauty of this list is that no server side coding is needed.

6. Display Del.icio.us feeds with the aptly titled Del.icio.us Feeds Displayer.
5. Display RSS and ATOM feeds with jFeed.
4. Display an image gallery/slideshow with Galleria.
3. Add formatted tooltips to any link with clueTip.
2. Help visualise tabular data, by transforming the data to graph with graphTable.
1. Embed all types of multimedia files with jQuery Media.

“Four Reasons to be Happy about Internet Plagiarism” is both confronting and controvercial. I agree with all 4 points. On a side note, Ryerson University has fun animations to explain academic integrity: “The Illustrated Guide to Academic Integrity“.

Edupunk - the anti ppt and blackboard movement, or rather the avoidance of ppt and blackboard. Start the revolution NOW! More info: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=44760

JavaBat, provides a unique way to learn Java in an online enviroment ie no SDK or IDE to install - just a way to concentrate on the syntax and get immediate feedback. I’d clasify JavaBat as a programming online tutor, intelligence still to be determined.

Mahara has developed in leaps and bounds as a viable ePortfolio alternative since I last took a look about a year ago. I particularly like the ability to create Views, that bundle artefacts together with common access control.

Feel sceptical about the ‘learning’ value of Second Life, then check out these examples of houses/buildings modeled for sustainable design.

It must be a good day - I have after all encountered two EDU 2.0 apps. Cohere, from Open Uni UK, takes concept/idea mapping to a new collaborative level. Add ideas, make connections and then discover related ideas and people.

Research paper on Cohere: Towards Web 2.0 Argumentation.

The problem based learning creation and deployment/playback tool from UQ just got renamed to SBLInteractive - Scenario Based Learning. Theres even an article in the Australian on PBLInteractive.

Common Craft do for Photo Sharing what they did for Social Networking, Social Bookmarking, RSS and Wiki’s - that is explain the concepts in a way anybody can understand.

Common Craft have a wonderful slogan - “Our product is explanation”

An all time classic from Common Craft circa 2004 - “What are the Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs?“

QUT is hosting an ePortfoilio Symposium. I’d be interested to hear about the tools showcase. Hopefully some of my friends at QUT will share their observations