Global Outlook from the NorthShore: Re-imagining Collaboration For A New Age
"To realize the promise of virtual collaboration, leaders and collaborators alike ... need to learn to think strategically and critically about the most appropriate ways to choose tools, adapt processes and work in virtual spaces" (text box between ¶¶ 4 & 5).
Numbering your blogger Comments ~ Blogger Widgets
"This trick helps you to number each of your comments under a particular post" (¶1)
What Are Pages? - Blogger Help
"Blogger pages let you to publish static information on stand-alone pages linked from your blog. For example, you can use pages to create an About This Blog page that discusses the evolution of your blog, or a Contact Me page that provides directions, a phone number, and a map to your location." (¶1)
Blogger Pages are finally out ~ Blogger Widgets
"Blogger has now released the pages feature just like in Wordpress blogs. You can use these pages for about me, contact me etc. The blogger pages are more or less like the blogger posts. But these pages wont appear in the blog archives and the blog feeds." (¶1)
Related Posts Widget For Blogger ~ Blogger Widgets
"The related posts widget will show a new related posts section below your post page.The related posts widget fetches the related posts from those posts having the same label as the current post." (Related Posts Blogger Widget v1, ¶1)
Blogger Buzz: Commenting made easier
"Today we're bringing the embedded comment form out of Blogger in draft and making it easily available to everyone. This feature puts the comment form at the bottom of each post page, below the comments, instead of on the separate, Blogger-styled page." (2008.10.22, ¶1)
Technology in Modern Foreign Languages - A Practitioner's Perspective
Edited by José Picardo
Language Learning with Livemocha | Learn a Language Online - Free!
"Free Online Courses ... in 36 different languages" (2010.02.22)
Overview | Pew Internet & American Life Project
Social media and mobile internet use among teens and young adults.February 2010
Creating "Static" Pages With Blogger
Amanda Fazani from Blogger Buster explains how to "use a blog post as a 'page' and backdate the timestamp so that the page does not show up in recent feed entries" (Creating your "Static" Pages in Blogger, para. 1), and how to tweak your template header to add links for ease of navigation to backdated posts. The template re-coding may be unnecessary if yours already allows multiple header elements.
iPetitions - Start a free online petition in minutes
"Create a powerful online petition in just a few minutes. No technical knowledge is needed .... " (Free Online Petitions, ¶1).
Taking better pictures with camera phones | Mobile Learning
"Passing these ideas on to learners could help them to maximise the quality of the photos they take using the cameras they're already carrying around in their pockets" (¶3).
A Brief History of Learning With Mobile Computers | Mobile Learning
animoto - the end of slideshows
"Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy." (2010.02.18)
room202isb - Wiki WarrantyTerms & Conditions
"Terms and Conditions (adapted from Sample Wiki Warranty @ TeachersFirst.com)"
stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site
"leading FREE stock photo site" wholly owned by Getty Images
Professional Development through Collaboration | Professional Development through Collaboration
"MASH began in 2006 as a small study group for distance-learning students on the University of Birmingham's MA TEFL program. Inspired by the course contents, the original 4 students decided to Meet online, Ask questions, Share ideas & Help one another in order to get the most they could from this exciting learning opportunity. With almost a hundred members now, the MASH network continues to grow - organically, creatively and flexibly - as it uses synergy to further professional development through collaboration. It offers ELT educators at every stage of their professional development an array of meaningful opportunities: 1) connecting with like-minded EFL educators, 2) exploring classroom research, 3) publishing academic work, 4) improving presentations and 5) building networks. There is only one secret to the success of MASH; we all share a commitment to each others' growth. If you would like to "know more" or "get more" in your professional life, please contact us because we always have room for more." (What is MASH, Author's Profile, retrieved 2010.02.09)
Teachers for the 21st Century - A Program by the Council of Independent Colleges
This site contains resources for those who are just beginning and those who wish to explore in greater depth three important topics in higher education today, particularly as they are related to teacher preparation.
The three topics of this website are:
Multimedia Records of Practice to enable faculty to make public their typically invisible practice of teaching and to support their scholarship of teaching activities;
Electronic Portfolios to enable faculty and students to reflect upon their learning or professional development or to support program or institutional assessment; and
Digital Storytelling to enable faculty, students, and others to easily create digital stories with which they may share their reflections on their experiences in learning.
eInstruction - ExamView Assessment Suite
ExamView® user guides for Windows and Mac
Discussion: Radical Inclusion - Open Virtual Collaboration | LinkedIn
Introduction on featured discussion thread
Dealing with student blogs at the end of the school year! | The Edublogger
LearningTimes Network - "LearningTimes.org"
Alison argues: "For learners to establish their online social presence there are three necessary levels of interaction that need to be designed into the learning programme to assist this process. The three levels of interaction are:
1. Learner-to-computer (system interaction)
2. Learner-to-learner (interpersonal interaction)
3. Learner-to-teacher/facilitator/lecturer (building positive relationship with students)
Online social presence results in learners establishing their cognitive presence online. Once they have created their online social presence they can begin to interact with the content to be learnt (cognitive presence)." (Dec 29, 2009 10:06 PM, para. 1-2)
Definition of collaboration Sebastien Pacquet point out in Radical Inclusion - Open Virtual Collaboration introductory discussion (Linked-In, c. Nov. 2009).
Free Technology for Teachers: Six Resources for Learning About Fair Use
media presentations for educators and chart for classroom use
e-Strategy Update » Blog Archive » A Beginners Workshop for WordPress
examples include publishiing "course content and modules on static pages" and using categories to represent most recent contributions on the front page
Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Using wikis for teacher development
Focuses on WetPaint, links to: How to create a wiki, and Using wikis with students
My Languages: From Thinking Skills to Thinking Classrooms
"... for ICT to support the devel[o]pment of Thinking Skills, there is a need to move away from the traditional ICT-based activities of drilling and practising skills such as grammar, spelling and out-of-context vocabulary recall.
• Interactive exploratory environments where students can direct their own learning through guided discovery processes are more likely to develop Thinking Skills. They encourage risk-taking and 'enable pupils to hypothesise and experiment with immediate feedback'."
e-Strategy Update » Blog Archive » e-Portfolios for Teacher Candidates
Describes use of WordPress MU blogs for mandatory portfolio development in teacher education program
Conference Proceedings | ILA Third International Conference, Japan 2007
These proceedings comprise 42 of the 170 scheduled parallel sessions, and one paper written in response to one of the sessions.\n\nProceedings table of contents and papers\n\nThe proceedings have been registered as an online publication ISSN 2073-7513. All papers have been double-blind peer reviewed a minimum of twice.
7 things you should know about Google Wave
"As it moves into general use, Wave might be known as a communication medium, a collaboration space, a repository where all of these things are stored and can be retrieved-or something else altogether" (item 6).
ELI Online Fall Focus Session (ELIFS09) - 17 Resources
Presentations tagged ELIFS09, many on collaboration
Teaching knowledge wiki | Teaching English | British Council | BBC
"The teaching knowledge wiki is a collection of definitions of ELT terminology. Each entry includes a definition, an example illustrating the concept and information about how the concept can be applied in the classroom context." (subsite of BBC/British Council Teaching English site)
Online Survey Software - Web Survey Tool - SurveyGizmo.com
Offers 14-day free trials that will revert to a basic free plan, recommended by Ray Tolley: http://efoliointheuk.blogspot.com/2009/10/surveys-are-whiz.html
CompendiumLD learning design software
Overview of "a software tool for designing learning activities using a flexible visual interface" (What is CompendiumLD?, 2009.10.17)
RPX: Instant OpenID and Data Portability
Explains RPX login interface for logins with IDs and passwords from familiar third-party accounts
24 page list sorted by name (or most recent)
Using System Restore from the Vista Windows Recovery Environment
How to automatically repair Windows Vista using Startup Repair
How to automatically repair Windows Vista using Startup Repair
Table of Contents
Overview of the Windows Vista Repair options
How to perform an automatic repair of Windows Vista using Startup Repair
Advanced Tools overview
Conclusion
E-Learning Journeys: Connectivism Explained
introduces video on the Networked Student
E-Learning Curve Blog: Discovering Instructional Design 5: Stages in the Affective Taxonomy
Goal statements (sometimes called purpose statements) are often used with the Affective Taxonomy. They answer the question, "Why does the student need to learn this material?" Goal statements reflect the instructional designer's empathy for the learner's motivation and attitudes, which should enhance the outcome of the lesson (see Table 1).
eFolio in the UK: What is Reflection?
Unsubstantiated reflection is thus a possibly useless activity. However, by using an e-Portfolio to both present a project and also substantiate reflective argument with evidences is, in my opinion and experience, the only true and effective method in this web2.0 world. (final ¶)
E-Portfolios for Learning: Conversation with Teacher Educator
Describes another teacher educators decision to abandon a "rigid commercial system" and adopt WordPress blogs for blog portfolio developments (and possible replication in other learning and teaching venues
E-Learning Curve Blog: Exploring Podcasting for E-Learning (and new podcast episode released)
I'm exploring the medium of podcasting at the moment. I've previously discussed podcasting in general here, but in my view there can (and should) be more to the medium than the well-trodden 'single voice-over discusses topic' - what I call the 'fireside chat' - podcast format. To undertake this successfully demands a theoretical understanding and competency in a number of domains.
I will outline the technical aspects of creating, recording, producing, and distributing podcasts at a later time, but for now, I want to investigate some aspects of audio delivered via podcast as a learning channel.
E-Learning Curve Blog: Podcasting for E-Learning: Putting it all together
I've been discussing one of the lesser-covered aspects of podcasting: delivering effective voice-over narration. So far, we have covered three of the four 'P's' of engaging your audience:
Pace - click to view article
Pitch - click to view article
Projection - click to view article
Today, I will talk about the Art of the Pause.
E-Learning Curve Blog: Podcasting for E-Learning: Critically Analyzing Podcasts
Touches on technical aspects of podcasting including podcast structure, technical elements, and content
E-Learning Curve Blog: Podcasting for E-Learning: Editing and Producing Podcasts
So far in this series of posts about Podcasting for E-Learning from the E-Learning Curve Blog, I've covered a lot of material, including:
A Brief History of Audio in Education
The Four 'P's' of narration
Introduction to Audio Production
Digital Audio Basics
Now, it's time to look in some depth at editing and producing podcast content.
E-Learning Curve Blog: Podcasting for E-Learning: Audio Editing + Audacity
Familiarizes new users with digital recording environment
E-Learning Curve Blog: Podcasting for E-Learning – Tour of Audacity’s User Interface
Translate tape editing metaphor to digital recording tool
E-Learning Curve Blog: Podcasting for E-Learning: Setting Audacity Preferences
Illustrated guide to preparation for recording
E-Learning Curve Blog: Podcasting for E-Learning: Recording with Audacity
Step by step illustrated guide
Recipes4Success: Citation Maker
Tech4Learning. (2009). Citation Maker. Recipes4Success. Retrieved September 30, 2009, from http://myt4l.com/index.php?v=pl&page_ac=view&type=tools&tool=bibliographymaker.
DigiTales - The Art of Telling Digital Stories
Generates Digital Media Scoring Guides for student and teacher use
Five Tips for Helping Students Become Better Bloggers | BlogWalker
Digital_Storytelling_Guide_FINAL_revised.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Got Vroom? Learn The Top 3 Ways To Use Your New Virtual Meeting Room
2007 Elluminate recording with Jonathan Finkelstein
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.
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).
50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom | Smart Teaching - Annotated
Student Participation Evaluation for Introduction to Collaborative Learning course, ©2003 Linda J. Smith
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)
100 Best Blogs for Tech-Savvy Teachers - Online Courses
80-90: Higher Education and Research
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).
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.
Show Archives From Edublogs.Org Free Live Web Events
Sayings and Phrases - meanings and origins
Dictionary of phrases comprising categorical lists for Biblical, Sailor's, and Shakespearean lingo
New Feature: How to import your Google Documents to SlideShare (Update) | SlideShare Blog
Seems to be for fixed displays, rather than auto updating transclusions
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)
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)
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.
Dragos "grouped the tips into several areas: content, layout, plugins, promotion, networking and money" (¶1).
Building Communities--Strategies for Collaborative Learning - 2002 - ASTD
Suggests communities support collaboration
elearnspace. everything elearning.
Defines and explains benefits of collaboration, list additional resources
"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)
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.
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
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
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
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)
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).
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. ...
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)
LearningTimes Network - "LearningTimes.org"
Comment on Social Presence in Online learning indicating distinct categories of online collaboration during coursework
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)
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities | Facebook
| The Public Domain | [Enclosing the Commons of the Mind]
Boyle, James. (2008). [CC-BY-NC-SA]
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).
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.
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."
[kml_flashembed movie="http://v.wordpress.com/UyDfmflZ" width="400" height="224"/]
(Wordpress. tv, How-To, Introducing Gravatar: Your Globally Recognized Avatar)
One pick from a rack of attractive productions from case:
http://www.youtube.com/user/case
Case Western Reserve University
Safari
I tried following the link to the Google Adsense interface, not activating anything, and navigating back to the blog layout interface, to no avail.
