Posted on April 26, 2008 by joanvinallcox
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My (New) Blogging Pattern
I used to try and blog once or twice a week - and felt badly if I failed to keep my blog current. My earliest blogs were long ruminations, almost essays, using academically correct formatting and referencing. I actually kept two, sometimes three blogs, trying to keep my professional, academic, [...]
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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 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 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 [...]
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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 5, 2008 by joanvinallcox
I’ve been playing with a new web application called Comiqs and I can see it being used for school assignments or for brief, visual manuals. Here are a couple of examples I whipped up in 20 to 30 minutes each, which is slow, because I was learning to use the application at the same time;->
First, [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2007 by joanvinallcox
I was sitting in my exercise Second Cup, a 20 minute walk each way, and leafing through one of the magazines - Forbes, I think, when I came across and article on a new make of computer. I could hardly get my head around the price for Zonbu, a computer.Just $99.00 - (and currently, it [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2007 by joanvinallcox
I stumbled across Top 10 Tools yesterday, and found it a rich resource for web tools I could using in my teaching, learning and playing on the web. I sent in my own choices:
Check out my full list - http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/joanvinallcox.htmland find the riches in the collection of lists - http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html
Thanks to Jane Hart and the [...]
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