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 25, 2008 by joanvinallcox
The web is a constantly changing space, and many people are afraid to dip their toes in the web stream for fear of being stung by a digital stingray. And rightfully so. In my experience, weaving through through the email flow, are false warnings and ugly offerings, fraudulent phishers, and identity thieves. The web is [...]
Filed under: Internet_use, communication, computers, e-learning, fraud, hacking, social_web, technology, tips, webtools | Tagged: online_safety, VirtualUniversity, web | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: business, education, essays, howto, image, learning, rewriting, screencast, teaching writing, tips, word-processing, writing | Tagged: "Table of Figures", papers, reports, Word, word-processing | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Styles, blip.tv, communication, e-learning, education, embed, essays, learning, screencast, teaching writing, tips, video, word-processing, writing | Tagged: blip.tv, iShowU, Styles, ToC, word-processing | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Internet_use, education, learning, learning 2.0, technology, tips, web2.0, webtools | Tagged: education, learning, read/write_web, social_media, teachers, teaching, web2.0 | No Comments »
Posted on January 15, 2008 by joanvinallcox
One of my favorite aspects of the web is the ability to link to other sites. My favorite part of being able to link to other sites is the capacity to store, organize, and re-find those sites using tagging, and social bookmarking. (If you aren’t familiar with these terms and actions, I’ve linked backup information [...]
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