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OLnet's Andreia Inamorato dos Santos took part in a round table discussing ‘OER as Learning Objects’ at the 16th International Conference on Distance Education – ABED (Brazilian Association for Distance Education) using Flashmeeting on the 2nd September 2010.

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ISKME's second annual Big Ideas Fest isn't your usual education conference.

The three-day Big Ideas Fest is an immersion into collaboration and design with a focus on inspiring and modeling cutting-edge thinking in K-20 education.

See what the buzz is all about by viewing videos from last year's inspirational speakers, participant interviews, and engaging group conversations.

To learn more about Big Ideas Fest, email at bigideas@iskme.org

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Your Ideas: What could Search Engines Do (to Make Finding Educational Content Easier). The Question: Could commercial search engines do a better job? What could a commercial search engine, or search engine company, do to make organizing, finding and accessing educational content easier and more effective?  To give your comments, ideas see: http://www.learningregistry.org/news/yourideaswhatcouldsearchenginesdotomakefindingeducationalcontenteasier

UKOER Evaluation and Synthesis Final Report is now available online on the team wiki

http://bit.ly/90Jkyg. The report offers a summary of strand activities and also includes individual strand synthesis work too.

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Karen has set up an OLnet podcast area on the KMI server.  There are two podcasts in it so far:

1. Presentations by OLnet Fellows: http://podcast.open.ac.uk/pod/OLnet_Fellows (which has Scott’s IET Coffee Morning Presentation)
2. All of the presentations from the Learning in an Open World Conference in June 2010 http://podcast.open.ac.uk/pod/OUConf10

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Videos of the presentations given at the Explorations around LabSpace: from OER content to OER Community Event held on the 29th June 2010 are now available to watch:

http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=31&whichevent=1543

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How information travels:  The SAIDE (South African Institute for Distance Learning) Current Awareness Service sends out a daily e-mail which gives information, articles and links on education found on the Intanet. This is sent to academics throughout South Africa.  In July Scott Leslie's blog OLNet Fellowship Week 2 – Initial Thoughts on Tracking Downloaded OERs received a mention.  To find out more about SAIDE their website is: http://www.saide.org.za/HOME/tabid/1220/Default.aspx

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Sad to say goodbye to Liam and Scott at team meeting this week.

HESTIA wins Google Award

Google Ancient Places, a joint project between The Open University, the University of Southampton and the University of California at Berkeley, received funding from Google to explore digitised literature.

Google Ancient Places will let users search for books related to specific geographic location during a particular time period, which are then visualised on Google Earth or Google Maps.

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A mention for OLnet in this blog following on from the CETIS gathering on 22nd June 2010 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2010/07/07/cetis-gathering/

Karen has been finalising and putting online the guidelines for the four OLnet-TESSA fellowships (closing date 20 September) following Elpida's example of using the books page format and liking it see: http://olnet.org/TESSAFellows