Posted on April 10, 2008 by joanvinallcox
This video by Loic Lemeur is intimidating, inspiring and irritating.
Intimidating because he has such wide ranging use of the social media;
Inspiring because I get some idea what I want to spend more time with; and
Irritating because it pauses every few seconds and you have to wait for it to go on.
found through my Bloglines - [...]
Filed under: Internet_use, PLE, RSS, communication, digital economy, mindmap, organizing_information, share, social_web, web2.0 | Tagged: socialmaps, socialmedia | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Internet_use, communication, e-learning, education, howto, learning, learning 2.0, mobile_learning, organizing_information, reading_online, share, teaching writing, technology, tips, webtools, wiki, writing | Tagged: icons, readability, wiki, wikispaces | No Comments »
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 December 27, 2007 by joanvinallcox
One of the most important aspects of the web today is a way of organizing information called tagging (or, on Blogger, labelling). You could say that tagging is the child of alphabetical indexing - a post-Gutenberg information management invention - and hyperlinking - a web networking development. You can see what this looks like in [...]
Filed under: blogging, delicious, folksonomy, indexing, labeling, organizing_information, printing, social_bookmarking, tagging, teaching writing, web2.0 | No Comments »
