In the latest edition of the ISTE Journal for Computing Teachers there is a useful paper that reviews a range of tools that can be used to learn and teach introductory programming. It reviews Alice, Jeroo,  Scratch, Raptor, Jhave, Game Maker, and Baltie. Worth checking out:
Using Introductory Programming Tools to Teach Programming Concepts: A Literature [...]

An excellent introduction to Google Wave:

Emails/threads are called waves
Can drag and drop images into a wave, embed videos
Other people can type in the wave at the same time, synchronously (synchronous wiki)

Note: It is possible to setup Google alerts to give you everything about a topic over the last day.

(Keynote speaker at the LAMS 2009 conference)

Emphasis on research as part of the tertiary learning experience
Gaps in the role of technology as a means of integrating research, teaching and learning.
Desirable outcomes of tertiary ed include “critical being” (Barnett) “epistemic fluency” (Goodyear) - “different ways of thinking about creating new knowledge” Goodyear and Ellis (2007, Teaching [...]

Major databases to look for citations include:

Web of Science (Thomson Reuters)
SCOPUS
Google Scholar

The ResearchID website is also a good way to collect author citations. SCImago journal & country rank is another database that can be reviewed.
The Web of Science database not only allows a researcher to search for their own publications and how many times each [...]