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The Voice and the Realities 2007 profile and index
Part-time University Teachers 2007 -The Voice and the RealitiesConditions of Part-time University Lecturers Survey Result (2005-6)
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Tyler Sticka: WordPress-Powered Portfolios « WordPress.tv
Sticka suggests differentiating blog-only items (posts) from portfolio content consisting of posts, gallery items, and thumbnails chosen to represent your best work; explains custom meta-fields and themes (tn & gallery) and php to create templates for them using built-in pagination; mentions putting this presentation on his blog (http://tylersticka.com)
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Using Google Forms | LearnCentral
Eaton, Sarah. (2011.02.11). Using Google forms [webinar].
"Learn how to use Google forms and embed them on your website or use them in your own e-learning presentations. ... You can also download the manual that was given out here." (Detaile[ed] Description). -
The Innovative Educator: 10 Ways Technology Supports 21st Century Learners in Being Self Directed
Thanks to Maggie for pointing out this post urging us to "begin supporting students using tools and strategies available to the 21st century learner" (10 Ways ..., ¶1) to the Classroom 2.0 group.
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Lily Puff Designs: Tutorial: "How to revert back the Minima/Minima Stretch Templates"
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3 Reasons Why Students Should Be Using Dropbox
"The best part about Dropbox as a collaborative tool, is that two people can edit the same file simultaneously. In that situation, Dropbox saves two distinct copies of the same files, each with a person’s edits to ensure that both edits are preserved" (3. Be Smarter About Collaborating On Projects, ¶3, 2011.02.23).
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Tuesday's Tech Tip 02/15/11 - Technology Integration
Thanks to Allison for pointing out this "short screen cast explaining how to separate or merge PDF files with Preview" (Technology Integration) in the EdTechTalk group.
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Arab Democracy Reference and Live Feeds - Home / Map
"news and reference site on the protests and activities in the Middle East" (Steve Hargadon, personal correspondence, Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 01:33(
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Rewriting research / Special report: Social academia / Special Reports / Home - Broker
Ward, Janelle. (2009). Rewriting research. The Broker 15, 12-18. Retrieved February 21, 2011, from http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/en/Special-Reports/Special-report-Social-academia/Rewriting-research
Source of recast: Online Collaborative Writing: How Blogs And Wikis Are Changing The Academic Publishing Process
Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/online-collaborative-writing-how-blogs-and-wikis-are-changing-the-academic-publishing-process/- Above all, to be successful, a wiki needs constant maintenance. ‘Group buy-in’ and ‘collective adoption’ are essential, which means that all members of the group must share an enthusiasm to make regular contributions.
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Above all, to be successful, a wiki needs constant maintenance. ‘Group buy-in’ and ‘collective adoption’ are essential, which means that all members of the group must share an enthusiasm to make regular contributions.
In contrast with academic blogs, where the identity of the main contributor is clear, wikis tend to downplay individual identity in favour of the group. They also feature research that often places equal value on academic and non-academic perspectives.
- Proponents of wikis argue that such collaboration has the potential to ensure that the quality of research is higher than that produced by individual scholars. But in an academic setting this will happen only if Surowiecki’s collaboration and cooperation problems are resolved.
- The most important requirement for a successful collaborative writing project via a wiki is that all those involved must be motivated to contribute.
- Although it is difficult to argue that the quality of publications is actually improved through blogging or online collaborative writing, evidence from various scholars does suggest that this is a possibility.
- Perhaps we are witnessing the start of an era of separation between what could become two realms of research. One is the realm of traditional ‘pure’ research where, independent of technologies like the internet, the goal is to achieve scientific discoveries that may eventually trickle down to the outside world. In the other, a realm that is much more closely focused on society and policy, practitioners communicate directly, and in real time, with that outside world.
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Online Collaborative Writing: How Blogs And Wikis Are Changing The Academic Publishing Process
"Originally written by Janelle Ward for The Broker, and first published on August 5th, 2009 as Rewriting Research" (footnote [URL revised, PB, 2011.02.21]), this article covers the following topics:
Academic Blogging
Blog Types and Purposes
Who Are Academic Bloggers
Blogging Rewards
Collaborative Writing and Wikis
Pros and Cons of Using Wikis
Wikis['] Effectiveness
Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Beyond
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RoundPic - rounded corners for avatars and images [web 2.0 style]
"Online tool for making anti-aliased rounded corners ... for avatars and images"
Sunday, February 27, 2011
PABeaufaitBookmarks (weekly)
Sunday, February 20, 2011
PABeaufaitBookmarks (weekly)
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Educating for Global Citizenship Home - Educating for Global Citizenship
A "wetpaint wiki created to allow students and teachers from around the world to share their experience about what makes safe and peaceful schools" (Purpose of wiki)
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Introduces free service, points out FAQs and tutorials, users' discussion space, and lesson plan database
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Report: Blended learning could hit or miss | Policy | eSchoolNews.com
Covers "'The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning,' by Michael B. Horn, co-founder and executive director of education at the Innosight Institute, and Heather Clayton Staker, a senior research fellow for education practice at the institute, [which] describes how blended learning can affect education, but why it also could fall short of its potential" (¶3).
- According to the report, blended learning, which it defines as “any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace,” has grown exponentially over the past decade.
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Yakushima - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Well-rounded overview with links to NHK media and World Heritage Forest Programme activities
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Yakushima travel guide - Wikitravel
- part of a museum complex at the base of the road leading to Yakusugiland and the Arakawa trail to Jomon sugi
- A short walk away is the World Heritage Conservation Center
- the steep trail to and from Jomon sugi does not go through the most impressive forest on the island. To see the silent, mossy, primeval forest pictured in the tourist brochures, the better destination is the Shiratani Unsuikyo forest, and it doesn't require an early start and hours of tough hiking to get there
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"[L]anguage education policy [in Korea] needs greater coordination so that it can effectively promote individual development and the national interest" (¶1).
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"a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics"
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How to Use Google Documents: Video Series | eHow Videos
"Learn how to use Google documents to organize personal and business documents and spreadsheets ..." (You are viewing an eHow Video Series, ¶1).
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"timesaving educational resources that use technology to improve instruction across all content areas and grade levels" (4Teachers Family of Tools, ¶1)
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Text 2 Mind Map - The text-to-mind-map converter
"Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that converts texts to mind maps.
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University Guide to Going Google
"This site contains tools and guidelines to use as a starting point to getting your students, faculty, and alumni ready and excited about Google Apps" (University Edition, ¶1). There is a counter-part, K-12 Edition.
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"EmbedPlus lets you easily upgrade video embeds with enhanced playback and relevant content" (banner, 2011.02.16).
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"This web page is for people interested in learning the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols. This is a useful skill for learners and teachers of English who may want to check the pronunciation of a word in a dictionary. Use the phonetic chart to learn the sounds of English. Then do a quiz to see how well you have learnt them" (The Phonetic Chart, ¶1).
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Reverse Outlines | Explorations of Style: A Blog about Academic Writing
First post on one of "five key strategies for improving academic writing" (¶1).
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Wayne Mackintosh on an Open Educational Resources University | LearnCentral
A LearnCentral "webinar with Wayne Mackintosh on designing an "Open Educational Resources" (OER) university and creating free learning for all students worldwide" (Event Details, Detail[ed] Description, ¶1).
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Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - Open Educational Resources
"The [OECD's OER] project analyses and maps the scale and scope of initiatives regarding “open educational resources” (OER) in terms of their purpose, content, and funding" (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - Open Educational Resources, ¶2).
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Online Education Database - Online Colleges and Universities | OEDb
"OEDb currently contains reviews of 1,025 programs from 83 accredited online colleges. Unlike other leading online education directories, our database only lists accredited online colleges ..." (Welcome to the Online Education Database, ¶1).
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"TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.... It is free for non-commercial searching" (home page, 2011.02.14), and there is a Firefox plug-in (Introducing TinEye [video]).
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Nordic River: TextFlow Redliner
"a cloud based document comparison and redlining tool making it easier to share, delegate and collaborate" (Document comparison in the cloud, ¶1, 2010.02.14)
Sunday, February 06, 2011
PABeaufaitBookmarks (weekly)
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Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - Writing Effective E-Mail - Paragraphing
Provides rationales and tips for paragraph formation in mail messages to make them reader-friendly
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For learners of English, sports posts in various categories: adjectives, grammatical expression[s], grammatical word[s], idioms, phrasal verbs, and the difference[s] between words (Categories, 2011.02.02)
