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If you are interested in finding out how much traffic a particular website is getting, or how much your website is getting, head to Visualize Traffic.

Visualize Traffic is a web service that estimates daily traffic and lets users visualize the data by comparing statistics against the population of countries. Helping users understand just how much people are visiting that website.

To use Visualize Traffic...

• enter a domain name in the large search box; and
• click the search button to...

This video clip is a short introduction to the Equality Act 2010, presented by Trevor Phillips and Stephen Alambritis.

Can also be watched at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mYPWIl8BTM.

AddThis is an easy, one-stop shop for sharing tools that can help a learning provider's current and potential stakeholders, share anything to anyone, anywhere.

AddThis helps their website publishers and bloggers spread their content across the web by making it easy for learners, practitioners, administrators, managers, etc., to bookmark and share content to their favourite social destinations.

AddThis maximizes the distribution of content and traffic brought to a learning providers site...

If you decide to add the Directgov Student Finance Widget to your website, it will allow current and future students to access a variety of relevant information and services from Directgov.

Here is the Sample Widget...

Visit http://innovate-apps.direct.gov.uk/widgets/uni/ to view and/or acquire the code to add to your website.

Touration is an excellent service for adding a guided tour to your web presence.

The Next and Previous controls can be seen near the bottom of the screen once the tour has been opened.

All this without any scripting, just using a visual editor.

Increase user understanding by providing 'just in time' support, helping your visitors, learners, s...

Conducting surveys is a good way for learners and practitioners to collect data.

Functional Skills practitioners could use the results for work with statistics, fractions and percentages.

MicroPoll makes it very easy to create a poll, customize it, and embed it into a blog, website, VLE etc.

To use MicroPoll...

• enter your question,
• enter answer choices, and
• enter an email address.

After completing those first three steps, users can...

• preview their poll,
• change the theme...

With such a diverse community across the UK today, there are plenty of good reasons to make learner provider websites and portals as accessible as possible to learners and other stakeholders from outside of the UK, or for those whom English is a second language.

The new version of the Microsoft Translator tool could therefore be really useful. It's free, and it translates web pages into 30 languages!

Basically, Microsoft Translator is a little web widget that sits on your website or port...

Micro Mobs could be...

• a good private platform for hosting a backchannel chat in your learning environment;
  
• a good platform for keeping in contact with stakeholders - learners; employers; carers; colleagues etc.

Micro Mobs is a free service that allows anyone to create their own public or private micromessaging network.

To get started users just...

• name their mob (network);
  
• pick a URL; then
  
• register for an account.
  

Note: Users can register for a Micro Mobs account or use th...

Have you found yourself trying to explain to learners or colleagues the differences between copyright and Creative Commons licensed works?

This Sharing Creative Works video is based upon a comic about Creative Commons. Both aim to explain the basics of CC licensing as simply as possible to a general audience, including children.

To make remixes and translations as easy as possible, the original artwork is in SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format; all the assets are available for do...