Highlights from the eLearning, edtech & Moodle links I reviewed this week.

• A visual of Bloom's Taxonomy applied to Web 2.0 - this illustration, created by Mike Fisher, has actually been my desktop image for the last two months.  Two other great links discussing Bloom's as a digital taxonomy can be found here and here.  This is a topic I am in love with & can't wait to apply more in my work.
   
• Looking for a conference to attend this summer? The Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research (CIDER) has compiled a list to easily locate events by month.  They welcome suggestions for anything not on their list as well.
   
• Seventeen Interesting Ways to use Voicethread in the Classroom is a great Google Docs presentation featuring tips for use and ideas for assignments with Voicethread.  Voicethread is a free collaboration/presentation tool.  The Voicethread environment allows you to mashup powerpoint, videos, and images with Voicethread-recorded commentary (audio or webcam) and a text/doodle/comment whiteboard-type tool.  Take these creative ideas & easily embed student's Voicethread work in Moodle.
   
• Free eLearning White Papers. Epic, a UK eLearning development company, provides informative white papers on the subjects of eLearning benefits, blended learning and learning design theory, pedagogy and motivation, innovation, implementation, and more.
   
• The 2 Minute Moodles channel on Vimeo was launched recently, featuring bite-sized Moodle tutorials created by Tomaz Lasic - currently at 33 videos!
   
• Future Trend Report: SLOODLE is an informative news-style video on Moodle, Second Life, and their love-child SLOODLE.  The beginning is a bit long and talking-head, but stay with it for a great demo of SLOODLE features and their cute take on a virtual news-reporter video.  It was created by graduate students in the Educational Media Design and Technology Masters Degree Program at Full Sail University - looks like a cool program.

• Are you Ready for an Online Course? A live recording of Michelle Pacansky-Brock's 60-minute workshop to students at Sierra College that discuses the differences between face-to-face and online learning, requirements to be prepared and tips to support success.

• Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites.   A goldmine of links for those on a quest to find relevant video resources to education, culture, society - anything deemed "intelligent."  Currently lists 40 different sites with a promise to update as more are contributed by readers.