PABeaufaitBookmarks 07/30/2010

• Screenjelly - What's on your screen?

  Worth a try? Registration necessary. Full-screen, w/ 3 min. limit

  tags: tools technology recording screencasting

• Flag Counter » free counters - collect flags - learn about your visitors!

  Customizable hit counter shows flags for visitors countries, with optional map view, country codes and pageview counts.

  tags: tools technology free blog gadgets and widgets wink_students

• DE Tools: DE Tools of the Trade

  "Free, Web[-]Based Tools & Resources for Online Educators" (tagline, 2010.07.29)

  tags: tools technology education resources free

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 07/28/2010

• Grouply Blog » Grouply for Education

  "Grouply provides a rich feature set with dozens of applications to help parents, teachers, and students communicate and collaborate online, yet it is remarkably simple to configure and easy to use" (¶2, 2010.07.27)

  tags: social networking alternatives tools technology education Grouply collaboration communication online

• Alternatives To Ning: Guide To The Best Social Networking Platforms And Online Group Services

  "If you are considering the option of switching to a different social networking platform to replace your soon-to-be discontinued free Ning community, in this MasterNewMedia guide you will find all the data you need to identify your best Ning alternative out there." (retrieved 2010.07.27)

  tags: social networking alternatives guide reviews tools technology resources

• whos.amung.us - dashboard » slzxwry7

  Offers free stat's page for blogs and other websites

  tags: free statistics tracking blog gadgets and widgets

• Projects By Jen | K6 Online Projects

  A social networking site for K6 educators

  tags: networking social online platforms services tools technology projects Jen Wagner collaboration teaching learning education resources

• Ning Alternatives: Best Social Networking Platforms And Online Group Services - MindMeister Mind Map

  Mindmap with links to various alternative services

  tags: networking social online platforms services education tools technology

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 07/24/2010

• World Affairs Council: Teacher Resource Packets ...

  "... [T]hese packets, in compliance with copyright law, are excerpted from those distributed at our professional development trainings. ...The full packets can only be obtained by enrolling in our professional development workshops" (Professional Development Programs, ¶2, 2010.07.23).

  tags: World Affairs Council global education professional development resources teacher development

• LearnCentral resource: World Affairs Council document (Aug. 18, 2009)

  Online Games and Virtual Worlds for Global Education: Resource Packet for Teachers

  tags: LearnCentral World Affairs Council global education online games educational games

• lists:2010classes [WinK Wiki] - Annotated

  • Jeff Cairn's PUK classes

• Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! on Vimeo

  Explains and illustrates features of version five, including a snapshot function enabling you to archive a webpage

  tags: Diigo Vimeo bookmarking videos

• TakingITGlobal - Youth Media - Games

  "This section of TakingITGlobal contains an assortment of fun and interactive educational games!" (TIGgames, sidebar, 2010.07.23)

  tags: TakingITGlobal educational games youth media interactive

• LearnCentral resource: Eaton (2010) Global Trends in Language Learning...

  Eaton, S.E. (2010). Global Trends in Language Learning in the Twenty-first Century. Calgary: Onate Press.

  tags: LearnCentral language learning resources languages education

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 07/23/2010

• Derek's Blog » Participation Online – the Four Cs

  "My diagram attempts to illustrate how many participants in the online environment move through phases as they gain understanding and confidence" (Wenmoth, 2006.11.10, ¶3).

  tags: blogging participation community online

• Making Learning Visible

  "The overall goal of Making Learning Visible is to create and sustain powerful cultures of learning in and across classrooms and schools that nurture and make visible individual and group learning" (MLV Home, ¶3; retrireved 2010.07.22).

  tags: cultural transmission group learning Harvard learning learning groups research culturally+diverse+learners

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 07/22/2010

• Interest - Global Education Conference

  "In partnership with Elluminate, we are in the process of organizing a free virtual online global education conference to hopefully take place November 15 - 19, 2010" (2010 Global Education Conference, ¶1).

  tags: collaborative conference education global online projects

• Terms and conditions ~ About ~ Huddle

  tags: terms conditions

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 07/16/2010

• City steps up English campaign - GlobalTimes

  Presents English language learning targets for broad segments of the Chinese populace, leading up to and extending beyond the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing; announce English website for Beijing

  tags: China English language learning goals plans policy Global Times

• 4 Easy Ways to Avoid Plagiarism on Your Blog

  "...[I]n most cases, online plagiarism checkers act as better wrappers to deliver the results from a search engine" (Google, ¶1).

  tags: plagiarism blogs technology

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 07/15/2010

• 'No English, no job' for some Japanese office workers-Jobs-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times

  Discusses prospects for employees of large Japanese retail firms having to learn English to keep their jobs and compete in international markets, in some cases without support from employers

  tags: English Japan language learning jobs self-development TOEIC proficiency testing

• City steps up English campaign - GlobalTimes

  Presents English language learning targets for broad segments of the Chinese populace, leading up to and extending beyond the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing

  tags: China English language learning goals plans language policy Global Times

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 07/10/2010

• Wordpress2Blogger conversion utility

  Instructions and online conversion tool

  tags: WordPress Blogger import export conversion utilities applications web applications

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Import from WordPress

Using an export file that WordPress generated in XML format (Dashboard: Tools: Export), and an online, WordPress-to-Blogger converter, I successfully imported a small number of posts from a WordPress blog to this one. Directions for importing posts and comments to Blogger are available here:

• How do I import and export blogs on Blogger? (answer=97416)

Since the number of posts I had on that other blog was small, and around half of them were notes about getting up to speed in a WordPress MU installation; rather than to republish them all automatically on this blog, I opted to republish only a select few by hand.

Though user content in the Blogger Help Forum indicated numerous problems (see, for example: query=import+data+Blogger), I encountered no glitches. The crux of the conversion may be file size; according to a warning on the Wordpress2Blogger conversion utility:

• NOTE: This hosted application [that utility] will only allow downloads smaller than 1MB. 

PABeaufaitBookmarks 07/02/2010

• Sync.in

  ..."a web-based word[-]processor...."
  "Free..." for public notes, "no sign-up required."

  tags: collaboration writing tools sharing online

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