I co-organized a Nercomp event on Widgets in Education at U. Mass Amherst with Eileen McMahon from U. Mass Boston. In my presentation I sought to define and categorize “web widgets” from simple “RSS containers” to interactive “read/write” widgets.
Eileen gave a great tour of many different widgets used in education including those available in iGoogle and through Google Apps for Education. There were also a number of presentations on using WordPress for courses.