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68 Interesting Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom
A collective (social) and currently growing compilation explaining and illustrating how educators can use online data-collection forms both in and outside the classroom
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“A collection of web based tools to help learners exploit the web” (tagline, 2011.06.23)
Sunday, June 26, 2011
PABeaufaitBookmarks (weekly)
Sunday, June 19, 2011
PABeaufaitBookmarks (weekly)
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Free online services. Photo editing and fun. Photo sharing
Pho.to site offers a number of online services for photo editing, photo fun and sharing. All of them use our best digital imaging technologies and are designed to make your digital photography experience even more convenient and fun.
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ImageOid - Add effects to image
Online image editor, beta version, takes gif, jpg, and png files up to 800 Kb. In May 2011, Rhondda Powling said it "offers twenty-two effects" and combinations" (Diigo, Images4Education, 04 May 11).
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Single line of code to add to HTML blog gadgets:
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Wenger_Trayner_DeLaat_Value_creation.pdf - Powered by Google Docs
Wenger, Etienne; Trayner, Beverly; & de Laat, Maarten. (2011). Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks: a conceptual framework [PDF]. Retrieved June 18, 2011, from www.social-learning-strategies.com/documents/Wenger_Trayner_DeLaat_Value_creation.pdf
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When Images “Lie”: Critical Visual Literacy | Digital Is ...
A National Writing Project Collection headed with the following tags:
critical visual literacy, image manipulation, images, media, photos, [and] provocations -
The Problem of "Pedagogy" in a Web 2.0 Era -- Campus Technology
"This is the final issue of the Web 2.0 newsletter" (Editor's note, ¶1).
- To make the turn from teaching to learning become a reality and not just a phrase, the first step should be toward a faculty development effort across the board to dramatically increase awareness of the basic research in learning theory of the past 30 years.
- Situated cognition, and related research threads, seems to me a useful concept for beginning to understand the tendencies of information technology for teaching and learning.
- There is movement underfoot. This is not about technology, despite the crucial need to deploy and use technology in the best ways, but about how humans use our new technology.
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The Problem of "Pedagogy" in a Web 2.0 Era -- Campus Technology
- Situated cognition, and related research threads, seems to me a useful concept for beginning to understand the tendencies of information technology for teaching and learning.
- This is not about technology, despite the crucial need to deploy and use technology in the best ways, but about how humans use our new technology.
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The Problem of "Pedagogy" in a Web 2.0 Era -- Campus Technology
- To make the turn from teaching to learning become a reality and not just a phrase, the first step should be toward a faculty development effort across the board to dramatically increase awareness of the basic research in learning theory of the past 30 years.
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A Logo Is Not a Brand - Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review
Dan Palotta's June 15, 2011, post defining brands and dispelling misconceptions of what constitutes them.
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Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities » Action Notebook
This page provides access to "a practitioner-oriented summary of the book [Digital Habitats] that you can download for free. It is couched as an “action notebook” in the sense that it summarizes dozens of practical steps you can take to support your community" (Action Notebook, ¶1, 2011.06.16).
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ScreenSteps.me - Signing up for a Wordpress.com blog
by rickdude
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Flowchart for "Developing Research Questions and Proposal Preparation" (top level entry)
Sunday, June 12, 2011
PABeaufaitBookmarks (weekly)
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APA Style Blog: How Do You Cite an E-Book (e.g., Kindle Book)?
"This post shows how to cite any e-book in APA Style" (Lee, 2011.06.03, ¶1 [retrieved 2011.06.09]).
Sunday, June 05, 2011
PABeaufaitBookmarks (weekly)
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Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - Why Format Is Important With E-Mail
Six major points "to keep in mind when formatting e-mail to make it as readable as possible" (para. 4).
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Zotero vs. EndNote - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Brian Croxall sums up "the different strengths of the two platforms" (May 3, 2011).
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News: Tablets, Yes; E-Texts, Maybe - Inside Higher Ed
"Claims that tablets will revolutionize the learning experience often go hand-in-hand with a push for more digital textbooks, but the Pearson survey showed that students don't often link the two. While most students perceived an educational value to tablets, only 35 percent said they preferred digital editions to print editions, and only about half of those preferred tablets to other digital devices" (Keving Kiley, 2011.05.25, ¶8, retrieved 2011.05.30).
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Dead Poets Society (1989) - Synopsis
Internet Movie Database: "This synopsis may contain spoilers" (Warning).
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Dead Poets Society (1989) - Plot Summary
Internet Movie Database plot summary by Liz Jordan
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"Online programs for recording, uploading, mixing, and interacting" (tagline), found thanks to Carla Arena's micro-review of one of the tools: Audio Delivery Made Super Simple (Collablogatorium, May 23, 2011).
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