# What I've starred this week: September 8, 2009

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

- [Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber](http://mashable.com/2009/09/07/facebook-smarter-twitter-dumber/) - *September 7, 2009 - Research by Dr Tracy Alloway from the University of Stirling*
- [Google Wave: 5 Ways It Could Change the Web](http://mashable.com/2009/09/05/google-wave-ideas/) - *September 7, 2009 - A whole section (albeit brief) is devoted to 'Wave for Education'*
- [New e-Learning Publications launched at ALT-C](http://elearning.jiscinvolve.org/2009/09/07/new-e-learning-publications-launched-at-alt-c/) - *September 7, 2009 - The publicatioons are: Managing Curriculum Change; Responding to Learners; and Learning Literacies in a Digital Age*
- [T-Mobile introduces first pay-as-you-go Android smartphone, dubbed Pulse](http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/09/03/t-mobile-introduces-first-pay-as-you-go-smartphone-dubbed-pulse/) - *September 3, 2009 - Chuck in some more internal memory and you've got a serious competitor for the iTouch. Could be a xmas battle brewing.*
- [Universities on Twitter: We’ll be brief about this ... - Times Online](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/article6802305.ece) - *September 3, 2009 - Not just about marketing: "Lecturers at Sheffield Hallam use Twitter to gather student opinion on lecture halls and study areas."*
- [Applications invited for ADM-HEA project funding](http://www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk/news/subject-centre-news/applications-invited-for-adm-hea-project-funding) - *September 2, 2009 - The themes are: education for sustainable development; student engagement and quality enhancement and student assessment*
- [What is the Future of Teaching?](http://mashable.com/2009/08/31/online-education-teachers/) - *September 1, 2009 - Online apparently (with caveats).*

*Automatically generated from [my Google Reader Shared Items](http://www.google.com/reader/shared/11609741331127149470).*