Posted on April 16, 2008 by joanvinallcox
If you have 2 or 3 minutes available, help out a researcher, Dan Zarrella, by answering his survey - http://www.polldaddy.com/survey.aspx?id=edd7004ad2c1de47 When he reports the results, I’ll link to them from this blog.
A small additional suggestion, the image above was created using Skitch - http://skitch.com/ . I really recommend it for ease of grabbing and sharing [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by joanvinallcox
This is a great little video talking about our new communication tool, the web, and how it changing us. The video also demonstrates how using simplicity can really add to communication.
With thanks to Julie Lindsay who shared it on Twitter, and Charles Leadbeater who created it
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Posted on April 11, 2008 by joanvinallcox
Cathy Moore helps people learn how to replace is/are/ etc. with more active verbs. Check it out - http://blog.cathy-moore.com/?p=207 - It’s short, it’s fun, and it makes its point clearly. (Am I contradicting her point? ;->
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Posted on April 9, 2008 by joanvinallcox
People decide about what to read, on paper or on the web, before they de-code a single word. If the page looks dense and/or difficult, readers, unless they are highly motivated, will just move on. When people learn to write or to create a web page, they should, IMHO, learn about readability as the same [...]
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Posted on April 1, 2008 by joanvinallcox
Last night I gave the first of two workshops on how to use a wiki to board members of a non-profit organization. I had equipment problems. I discovered I should have done some more checking ahead. I had left the Mac dongle for connecting my laptop to the projector at home. My [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2008 by joanvinallcox
I enjoy playing with new applications, and I enjoy figuring out how to use them to accomplish tasks. My previous post was a screencast showing how to automatically generate a Table of Contents, something that is very easy once you see the steps. This post is focussed on how to automatically generate a Table of [...]
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Posted on March 15, 2008 by joanvinallcox
I have just had a fun couple of hours making and uploading my first screencast, just under 5 minutes long. You can see the results here:
I have found many people don’t know how to use Styles in MSWord, and many other word-processing applications, to automatically generate a Table of Contents. I think this is a [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by joanvinallcox
It seems to me that for teachers and entrepreneurs, one of the most useful, and the easiest, web2.0 applications is the wiki. Many people who are new to web2.0 aren’t sure what a wiki is. It is an interactive website that can be edited without using HTML, just by using a set of icons, [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2008 by joanvinallcox
Recently I posted a comment on a blog and checked off the little box that okays email notification every time a comment is added. The blog post is on Will Richardson’s Weblog-ed: learning with the read/write web and it is an urgent call for educators, aka teachers, to get more knowledgable about the web [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by joanvinallcox
Because I am part of the very active edublogger community, I sometimes have a false sense of security about what is happening in education. Every so often, though, I talk to a teacher, or even, as I did this morning, a tech professional, and am startled at the gaps in knowledge about our new communication [...]
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