PABeaufaitBookmarks 12/17/2009

• e-Strategy Update » Blog Archive » A Beginners Workshop for WordPress

  examples include publishiing "course content and modules on static pages" and using categories to represent most recent contributions on the front page

  tags: collab-bk-blogs-wikis, UBC, WordPress, workshops

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Quick and easy ways of strengthening passwords?

Find out by watching this short video in the Technology section of the New York Times. Animated displays in the foreground reinforce the suggestions from NYT techxperts, J. D. Biersdorfer and Sam Grobart, produced by Jigar Mehta (1:55 min.).

• Yo Jude: Strong Passwords (2009)

I gleaned the link to to that video from the UBC's e-Strategy Update, Blog Archive, Miscellany section (2009.12.09).

PABeaufaitBookmarks 12/15/2009

• Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Using wikis for teacher development

  Focuses on WetPaint, links to: How to create a wiki, and Using wikis with students

  tags: collab-bk-blogs-wikis, tutorials, wikis

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 12/01/2009

• My Languages: From Thinking Skills to Thinking Classrooms

  "... for ICT to support the devel[o]pment of Thinking Skills, there is a need to move away from the traditional ICT-based activities of drilling and practising skills such as grammar, spelling and out-of-context vocabulary recall.
  
  • Interactive exploratory environments where students can direct their own learning through guided discovery processes are more likely to develop Thinking Skills. They encourage risk-taking and 'enable pupils to hypothesise and experiment with immediate feedback'."

  tags: critical thinking

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.