PABeaufaitBookmarks 09/30/2009

• Five Tips for Helping Students Become Better Bloggers | BlogWalker

  tags: blogging, students, education, blogwalker, blogs, edublogs

• Digital_Storytelling_Guide_FINAL_revised.pdf (application/pdf Object)

  tags: storytelling

• Got Vroom? Learn The Top 3 Ways To Use Your New Virtual Meeting Room

  2007 Elluminate recording with Jonathan Finkelstein

  tags: Elluminate, vRoom, recordings

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

Slideshare defaults new Account Type from default!

Slideshare apparently added new Account Type options to improve users profiles. A drop down menu at the head of Personal Information pages offers choices of Default, Company, Event Organizer, and four more. That's all well and good, if one of the types fits you better than the default.

The problem is, on first login since Slideshare's update, I found a hot-linked organizational name glaring from the top corner of the display, which opened My Slidespace when I clicked on it. Though the slidespace then announced "Hello, [+ username]!" at the top right, the "Welcome back, ..." message in the sidebar to the left still displayed the organizational name.

The work around to get back to me required:

1. Opening the user profile page for editing (Edit profile),
2. Switching the Account Type to Default, and
3. Saving the changes.

Talk about a make work proposition for users not seeking to usurp an entire organization's Slideshare identity! Why is it that web site builders seem to think they know better than users do what users' identities and preferences are?

PABeaufaitBookmarks 09/26/2009

• Monster.ie: Are You Cut Out for Teamwork? (Quiz)

  Try this little test to see how suited you are to being an effective team member. If the feedback you get is disappointing and being the next Lone Ranger is not your idea of a good career track, remember to visit our online experts for some guidance on how to improve your teaming skills. You're gonna need them for the Millennium.

  tags: teamwork, teams, quizzes, skills

• SCoPE: Seminars: Collaborative Projects on WikiEducator: August 10-28, 2009

  Online seminar introducing "many opportunities available to educators to learn from others, to collaborate on curriculum projects, and to explore new technologies that will improve educational access and quality" (forum blurb).

  tags: collab-bk-collaboration, collaboration, projects, Wikieducator

• 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom | Smart Teaching - Annotated

  tags: wikis, collaboration, education, classroom, technology, collab-bk-collaboration

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

PABeaufaitBookmarks 09/25/2009

• Untitled Document

  Student Participation Evaluation for Introduction to Collaborative Learning course, ©2003 Linda J. Smith

  tags: collaborative, learning, participation, evaluation

• 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom

  tags: skype, classroom, technology, teaching, education, communication, collaboration

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

PABeaufaitBookmarks 09/19/2009

• Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online

  "... here are ten practices that contribute to an effective, efficient and satisfying teaching and learning experience for both faculty and students" (Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online, ¶1)

  tags: Judith V. Boettcher, online, learning, teaching, principles

• 100 Best Blogs for Tech-Savvy Teachers - Online Courses

  80-90: Higher Education and Research

  tags: blogs, blogging, technology, teachers, education, lists

• Inventory of Ecoaching Tips

  61 tips from Judith V. Boettcher, up till fall 2008: "This set of ecoaching tips is for faculty who are designing and teaching online courses and blended campus courses" (Designing for Learning - Consulting, Advising and Facilitating, http://www.designingforlearning.info/index.html, retrieved 2009.09.18).

  tags: Judith V. Boettcher, ecoaching, tips

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

Thanks for dropping by!

Though the chart below suggests that the number of visitors took a turn upward over the past few months, I'm at a loss to explain why. pab's potpourri has been on MyBlogLog for years, and I haven't pinged Technorati recently.

While I've embedded a few videos here and there, the main new development has been feeding Diigo bookmarks automatically into micro-posts. Are those what attracted extra attention to this potpourri? There is an aggregate feed from all my blogs on one or more of the others; maybe that's generating some cross-checking.

If you're here checking out this post, and have a few keystrokes to spare, would you please leave a brief comment explaining what brought you here? I'd sure appreciate it.

PABeaufaitBookmarks 09/18/2009

• O3Spaces - O3Spaces Workplace

  About O3Spaces Workplace\nO3Spaces Workplace is a Web 2.0 Document Management & Document Collaboration Solution\n\nO3Spaces Document CollaborationO3Spaces document collaborationO3Spaces Workplace offers a fresh approach to document management and document collaboration. With ease of use and end user adoption in mind, O3Spaces Workplace seamlessly integrates its functionality into your every day office work.

  tags: collab-bk-collaboration, collaboration, O3Spaces, document management

• Edublogs Live

  Show Archives From Edublogs.Org Free Live Web Events

  tags: archives, Edublogs, education, blogging, blogs, resources, tools, tutorials

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

PABeaufaitBookmarks 09/17/2009

• Sayings and Phrases - meanings and origins

  Dictionary of phrases comprising categorical lists for Biblical, Sailor's, and Shakespearean lingo

  tags: reference, phrases, language, English, dictionary, quotations, sayings, writing

  • Phrases, sayings and idioms at

    
    

    The Phrase Finder

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

PABeaufaitBookmarks 09/15/2009

• New Feature: How to import your Google Documents to SlideShare (Update) | SlideShare Blog

  Seems to be for fixed displays, rather than auto updating transclusions

  tags: documents, Google, imports, Slideshare, spreadsheets, transclusions

  • We will not ask you for your credentials.

• Athabasca University Press - Mobile Learning

  "This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research. Businesses and governments can learn how to deliver timely information to staff using mobile devices. Professors can use this book as a textbook for courses on distance education, mobile learning, and educational technology." (Details, ¶1)

  tags: mobile learning, distance learning, distributed learning, mobile technology

  • This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research. Businesses and governments can learn how to deliver timely information to staff using mobile devices. Professors can use this book as a textbook for courses on distance education, mobile learning, and educational technology.

• Centre for Distance Education - Collaborative Tools Evaluation Site

  "The site is designed to help distance educators and their students to select appropriate methods of course development and delivery. Athabasca University (AU) in Alberta is Canada's Distance Education University, teaching over 20,000 students around the world, completely via distance education methods and media. The evaluation site is maintained by AU's Centre for Distance Education (CDE), as a collaborative activity by its faculty and graduate students." (Intended Audience, ¶1)
  
  Retrieved 2009.09.14, "last updated February 21, 2008" (page footer)

  tags: applications, asynchronous, evaluations, free, online, synchronous, tools

  • The highest priority is given to software that can be downloaded from the internet
    and used at no cost.
    

    
    New product categories will be added, and the existing ratings updated.

  • he site is designed to help distance educators and their students to select appropriate methods of course development and delivery. Athabasca University (AU) in Alberta is Canada's Distance Education University, teaching over 20,000 students around the world, completely via distance education methods and media. The evaluation site is maintained by AU's Centre for Distance Education (CDE), as a collaborative activity by its faculty and graduate students.

• 100 Ways To Improve Your Blog

  Dragos "grouped the tips into several areas: content, layout, plugins, promotion, networking and money" (¶1).

  tags: blogging, blogs

  • This post is a follow-up of my first “100 things” attempt, 100 Ways To Live A Better Life, which was absolutely a blast. This time, for your convenience, I grouped the tips into several areas: content, layout, plugins, promotion, networking and money.
  • I grouped the tips into several areas: content, layout, plugins, promotion, networking and money.

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

PABeaufaitBookmarks 09/14/2009

• Building Communities--Strategies for Collaborative Learning - 2002 - ASTD

  Suggests communities support collaboration

  tags: collab-bk-collaboration, collaboration

  • E-learning communities are groups of people connected solely via technology. All interactions begin and occur over the Internet, through conference calls, via videoconferencing, and so forth. These communities promote virtual collaboration that's focused on addressing a specific topic, and they are supported by one or more online learning and media tools.
  • Blended learning communities integrate online learning and face-to-face meetings. Two core assumptions of this type of community are 1) deep personal relationships between learners create richer collaborative learning experiences and 2) relationships between learners can be strengthened through structured group interactions that employ technology before and/or after a face-to-face learning event.

• elearnspace. everything elearning.

  Defines and explains benefits of collaboration, list additional resources

  tags: collab-bk-collaboration, collaboration

  • At it's simplest level, collaboration may be simply sharing information with another person, department, or organization...at it's most advanced level, collaboration involves unifying communication processes and content and establishing forums for accessing resources and building content and value together. An effective collaborative project that is sustained may involve into more complex relationships and purposes

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

PABeaufaitBookmarks 09/11/2009

• Issuu - You Publish

  "Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best." (Issuu - You Publish [home page], Publish by millions, ¶1, 2009.09.10)

  tags: publishing, pdf, magazines, books

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

Herding Cats

This appears to be the source of a concept I recall James Farmer included in a presentation years ago. If you recall that pres., and know where it is, I'd appreciate a pointer to help me track it down.

PABeaufaitBookmarks 09/09/2009

• Learning about Learning | collaboration | movies

  Cover page for informative, illustrative, and perspective movies (videos) about collaborative learning in Scottish schools, presenting principles, spotlighting teaching techniques and learning experiences, offering educational leadership views; updated 06 September 2007

  tags: collaboration, schools, Scotland

• A Guide to Protecting Your Online Identity - Annotated

  Online identity management and personal branding, that includes social media optimization, can work to fight online identity theft. There are several tools and companies that monitor, repair, or build online reputations. - para. 6

  tags: Identity, security, safety, online, branding

• FACEBOOK FAIL: How to Use Facebook Privacy Settings and Avoid Disaster

  The beauty of Facebook’s many features is that now you can choose what you show and to what type of people. By using friend lists and playing with your privacy settings, you can create different views for each segment of your life. - para. 3

  tags: facebook, privacy, settings, security, identities, social media

  • No one will know you’ve changed settings, either for them or in general; these updates will not show up in your news feed, so block people with abandon. Also note that photo albums settings must be changed individually, either when you set up a new album or by going to the Photos section of the Privacy page. However, any photo you use as a profile picture goes in a separate album called “Profile Pictures” which the settings cannot be changed for. So don’t make an inappropriate photo your profile pic. But you knew that.

• Canada: Facebook Doesn’t Comply with Our Privacy Laws

  "A Canadian privacy commission report released on Thursday says that Facebook breaches privacy laws there" (para. 1)

  tags: Facebook, privacy, Canada

• My Languages: Summer Reading: Guy Claxton-What's The Point of School?

  Outlines Guy Claxton's Building Learning Power program, and asserts that: "As students are being coached in how to be usefully reflective about their own learning journeys, they are also developing collaboration skills and developing a richer meta-language in which to talk, not just about the content of their learning, but bout its process as well" (para. 4).

  tags: assessment, coaching, reflection, collaboration, meta-language, confidence, enthusiasm

  • As students are being coached in how to be usefully reflective about their own learning journeys, they are also developing collaboration skills and developing a richer meta-language in which to talk, not just about the content of their learning, but bout its process as well.
  • Collaboration
  • I also loved the words from Joseph Payne, dating back to 1856, against continual testing and likening it to “continually pulling up the plants to see the conditions of the roots, the consequence of which was that all good natural growth was stopped”.

• Diigo Blog » Diigo vs. Google Notebook (& importer…) - Annotated

  Google just announced that it will gradually phase out Google Notebook and many people are looking for alternatives. Here is a brief side-by-side comparison of Google Notebook and Diigo:
  
  1. Google Notebook is very much similar to Diigo Lists. ...

  tags: diigo, google, bookmarking, technology, education, importer, google notebook

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

PABeaufaitBookmarks 09/08/2009

• LearningTimes Network - "LearningTimes.org"

  Comment on Social Presence in Online Learning that resonates with points in Stephen Downes recent presentation at Ars Electronica (2009.09.05): The Cloud and Collaboration
  (http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/the-cloud-and-collaboration)

  tags: collaboration, collab-bk-collaboration

• LearningTimes Network - "LearningTimes.org"

  Comment on Social Presence in Online learning indicating distinct categories of online collaboration during coursework

  tags: collab-bk-collaboration

  • We can divide this 'social presence' into two categories, I feel... (a) the interaction which is graded as part of the collaborative learning process, involving discussions amongst participants and comments on the content of others' posts. There are obviously elements of quantity and quality to be considered here.... and (b) the kind of interaction which takes place spontaneously (and is not graded by the e-tutor)... where participants simply share useful info or their personal feelings about a particular topic, thus establishing affective links not only with the other learners, but also with the e-tutors.

• Digital Citizenship

  Within this website are many examples of how educators can begin the process of teaching their students how to use technology more appropriately. These resources can be used by any anyone who is interested in helping students or others better understand appropriate technology use. (Digital Citizenship Today,¶1)

  tags: appropriacy, technology, citizenship, digital, education, publications, resources

• XMind - Social Brainstorming and Mind Mapping

  tags: mindmapping, opensource, software, download, brainstorming

• Statement of Rights and Responsibilities | Facebook

  tags: Facebook, services, terms of service

  • you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook
  • You will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law.
  • You can use your privacy settings to limit how your name and profile picture may be associated with commercial or sponsored content served by us. You give us permission to use your name and profile picture in connection with that content, subject to the limits you place.

• | The Public Domain | [Enclosing the Commons of the Mind]

  Boyle, James. (2008). [CC-BY-NC-SA]
  

  tags: copyright, laws, intellectual property, books, opensource, public domain, cultures, sciences, technology, policies

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 09/05/2009

• McToonish » ... » The Death of Communities When Courses End

  "Fortunately Facebook, Ning, Google and Yahoo Groups and many other options for social networking don’t work that way. Those communities can continue for as long as the members of the community put in the effort to keep it alive. This can be very useful for students to stay in contact for social, professional and learning opportunities" (Ross, 2008.10.06).

  tags: access, cohorts, communities, course management systems, courses, death, learning, learning opportunities, glossaries, opportunities, professionalism, resources, social networking sites, third-party sites, universities, wikis

• Plaxo

  tags: no_tag

  • an opt-opt confirmation

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

The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity

Wesch (YouTube, 2009.07.16) presents "a brief history" and extolls a new age of "whatever" (33:44 min.), which as Couros (2009.07.21) suggests is well worth our time.

pabspotpourri 09/04/2009

• sleeping alone and starting out early: on social networking guidelines for teachers

  Jenna McWilliams' post frames and follows on from Steve Taffee's post comprising Proposed Guidelines for Use of Social Networks by School Faculty and Staff (Blogg-Ed Indetermination, Social Networking Guidelines for School Employees, 2009.02.12). Follow-ons focus "On 'Misrepresentation'" and "On Course Use of Social Networking."

  tags: social networking, guidelines, strategies, misrepresentation

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

Removing mail from servers

Now that I've switched to LDAP mail services for most of my accounts (three of five), to enable synchronization across multiple machines, in various venues, I have run into problems where message that I'm sure I sorted, replied to, or deleted, show up again as unread messages. That is, mainly in alternate users areas (Restorers) in which I hardly ever open mail.

In Mac Mail, I used to delete trashed messages permanently from mail servers after a month, just in case I mishandled some, and didn't discover the errors in my ways till more than a week afterwards. I'm resetting preferences to delete them after one week, and may switch to after one day, or to when quitting mail, if necessary.