[1 of] 7 Ways to Avoid Inbox Overload When Collecting Assignments

Richard Byrne made DROPitTOme sound like a winner:

"DROPitTOme works by synchronizing with your Drop Box account. After connecting the two services DROPitTOme provides a url that you can give to others to upload files to your Drop Box account." (Byrne, 2011.09.06, 7 Ways..., DROPitTOme, ¶2).

Free Technology for Teachers: 

7 Ways to Avoid Inbox Overload 

When Collecting Assignments 

(via Blog this)

This two-minute, silent video shows how to get started:

YouTube video: Uploaded by DROPitTOme on Oct 8, 2010

Two face drawing videos

Austin Kleon

HOW TO DRAW FACES

MONDAY, JULY 27TH, 2009

http://www.austinkleon.com/2009/07/27/how-to-draw-faces/

Dave Gray | info

Videos – Drawing facial expressions

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

http://www.davegrayinfo.com/2010/10/28/drawing-facial-expressions/

Thanks to Nancy White for pointing these out in her Online Social Learning Practices - Benetec Slides (SlideShare, 2012.11.15).

An initial go at embedding from diagram.ly

It's hard to believe how easy it is to use this free diagramming tool. Thanks to who ever it was who pointed it out!

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Here's a rebuilt view:

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Networked Student - YouTube (2008.11.26)

Networked Student - YouTube: Uploaded by Wendy Drexler on Nov 26, 2008

"The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler's high school students." 

(YouTube description, link added)

The Networked Student (Drexler, 2008)

'via Blog this'

Massive open online c... ?

Curiosity consumed me, and Google provided some intriguing results today (2012.09.11):

• "massive open online course" – over 400,000 hits;
• "massive open online conference" – eight (8) hits, all from 2011; 
• "massive open online community" – six (6) hits, all from 2012; and
• "massive multiplayer online games" – over two million hits, for sake of comparison.

Though the middle two searches above for "... conference" and "... community" include a few redundancies, the recency of those few hits may indicate avenues for if not of innovation. 

Co-authoring acknowledgement

I co-authored this essay with ... (& ...). We used content from our previous, individual essay posts (1-02a-b).

Individual essay posts (1-02a-b)

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Here are links to each of our co-authored essays:

Joint essay posts (1-02c)

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Spell with flickr

Thanks to Isabelle Jones for point[ing] this out as a tool capable of supporting "development of both writing and speaking skills" (My Languages, Memory Joggers..., 2012.06.01). Check it out!

TED Gets Better & Better — Now With ‘TED Quotes”

In TED Gets Better & Better — Now With ‘TED Quotes”, Larry said, "TED began a new searchable feature called TED Quotes. They highlight great quotes from their TED Talks, and they link back to the presentation[s]" (February 14, 2012).

Which Google Docs for Beginners?

The presentation below recap's a pilot study I've undertaken to gather opinions regarding the most suitable Google Docs for beginning Google Docs users.

If you are willing to take part in the survey itself, please submit your responses, once, in a form you'll find here (opens in a new window). If you have questions or concerns about either the pilot study or the current survey, please post them in comments on this post. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Google Docs for Collaboration

2012-01-13_1456-GoogleDocs_project

The video in this post represents a Jing screencast recording with embedding code from Screencast.com. The default dimensions, 984 pixels wide by 667 tall, I've reduced to 338 and 222, respectively.

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IMG_1719, a photo by veryuseful on Flickr.