Why is it that copy and paste from any text source into a rich text editor on virtually any web2.0 content publishing application results in all the font style being copied too - often using deprecated FONT tags? This is hardly ever what you actually want!

Please, rich text editor builders, support copy and paste by all means but please preserve the structure and not the styles. Let the new text inherit from the document being pasted into rather than copied from!

I really like this idea ... but would it work for 250+ students? Maybe for the maths drop in centre and examples classes. http://bit.ly/f4g4BP

Interesting post from James Clay in e-Learning Stuff. His recommendation for teachers (quoted) pretty much matches my own conclusions that resulted from some minor work I've done on social networks for Student Peer Support. http://bit.ly/f8eKg4

Topics and ideas are targetted at primary and secondary education, but there are some gems that could be used in Higher Education and beyond. My three suggestions: topic selection for project work; project assignment; learning tool bingo. Via @sadaat_m on #PLENK2010. http://bit.ly/hlZxb1

Modern student: "we started having a conversation with our students about bookmarking online resources - either they don't or they write stuff in a Word doc. Some write it out by hand... "Their knowledge is transient - they are completely brainwashed by modularized culture - file assessment and forget." http://bit.ly/gOCnoa

Via OLdaily, November 2010. http://bit.ly/e7iUVP

Report from Times Higher which covers recent announcements of Marc Prensky, due to speak in Bournemouth University next week, and Martin Hall, invited speaker at the ALT-C Conference this week. My summary ... the "nouns are changing but the verbs remain the same". http://bit.ly/d3hIF3