YouTube - Life After Death by PowerPoint
Found via Google Buzz from Carla Arena
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Saturday, May 01, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/01/2010
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 04/27/2010
Bad Writing and Bad Thinking - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Rachel Toor recap's George Orwell's essay on "Politics and the English Language, notiingl: "In bad writing, Orwell continues, 'The passive voice is wherever possible used in preference to the active, and noun constructions are used instead of gerunds ('by examination' of instead of 'by examining').'"
She then surmises: "Most writers know they should avoid the use of the passive voice. Few do. Sometimes it's more expedient to say that the bomb was dropped, or that the war ended, rather doing the work of assigning blame or awarding credit. I know the arguments for the use of the passive voice in science and agree that at times it's appropriate. Often, however, I think it's a result of conventions that are wrong and outdated."
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Monday, April 26, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 04/26/2010
Hate speech corrodes online games - Games - msnbc.com
"One gamer told an opponent he presumed to be Jewish that he wished Hitler had succeeded in his mission. Many exchanges involve talk of rape or exult over the atomic bombing of Japan. There are frequent slurs on homosexuals, Asians, Hispanics and women.\n\nSuch comments can be heard on all online video gaming systems, including PlayStation Network, Blizzard Entertainment (World of Warcraft) and others." (para. 3-4).
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Friday, April 23, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 04/23/2010
"Your 'Archived' Ning Network will not allow new posting or uploading, it will only be a copy of your Ning Network as of April 2010, so that it is available to all your members, preserved on the web, searchable, shareable, and fully readable" (What's the catch? ¶1),
Back up member profile information
"You can export your members' profile information at any time from the Manage Members page This will generate a comma-separated (CSV) text file that you can open using a program like Excel. It'll contain information about your members, including their name on your Ning Network, a link to their profile page, their email address, the date they joined, their birthday, and their answers to all of the profile questions on your Ning Network."
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 04/20/2010
Cool tool for finding associated pages in Wikipedias in various languages
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Friday, April 16, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 04/16/2010
Clicking copies character to clipboard for pasting elsewhere. Thanks to Wayne Udey and EdTech @ SIAST for pointing this out (CopyPasteCharacter - simple symbols, 2010.03.31).
Main Page - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"This is the front page of the Simple English Wikipedia. Wikipedias are places where people work together to write encyclopedias in different languages. We use simple English words and grammar here. The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone! That includes children and adults who are learning English." (About Wikipedia, ¶1)
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 04/15/2010
YouTube - Audacity Tutorial for Podcasting
"How to use Audacity for Windows..." (robwhiteus2007.10.08).
YouTube - Hows and Whys of Podcasting
Presentation reflecting on methods and rationales for producing ESL student audio and video podcasts
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 04/14/2010
Top 13 Screen Recorders to Record Your Screen Activities
"Here are few of the best screen recorders that will allow you to create videos and presentation from your activities and which are free to use" (¶1, 2010.04.13).
Free Stock Music for Educational Use
"If you are an educator who would like to use royalty free music in your classroom, click on the Free Music Programs link to submit an application to download stock music free of charge" (Free Royalty Free Stock Music for Education, ¶2, 2010.04.13))
Google Apps Topic Review - Improving the writing process with Google Docs.pdf - Google Docs
"This paper explores Google Docs’ capabilities and shares insights from educators on the benefits they’ve seen in their classrooms" (¶1).
Ten gadgets to make Google Wave more productive - and fun!
"You should bear in mind that these are all 'beta' gadgets. A lot of them work just fine but you might hit some bugs along the way. The 'direct import links' might also change at any time, so feel free to report any broken links!" (Sebastian Anthony, 2009.11.06, ¶4)
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 04/13/2010
Google Buzz Educates Teens About Privacy [VIDEO]
Christina Warren says on Mashable: the Social Media Guide, "Although aimed at teens, the tips are good for anyone using Buzz to keep in mind" (¶3, 2010.04.06).
ACTA: The acronym hardly anyone knows yet should be scared to death of
Multiple perspectives on secretive development of an "innocuous-sounding" (Building Frankenstein under NDA) trade agreement.
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Friday, April 09, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 04/09/2010
National Education Technology Plan 2010 | U.S. Department of Education
List of pages from sidebar on Home page (2010.07.08):
Home
Executive Summary
Introduction
Learning
Assessment
Teaching
Infrastructure
Productivity
Recommendations
Research and Development
The Grand Challenges
References
How This Plan Was Developed
Technical Working Group
The Contributors
Acknowledgments
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Quick Study of Blog Feed Stat's
When the ClustrMaps widget on the Writing Studio Blog started getting blotchy in locations other than Japan, I started wondering how all the blots came to be. Some, I knew, represented sources of comment spam that began showing up recently even though I've kept that blog out of Blogger listings (Settings: Basic: Add your blog to...: No!) since its inception.
So today I took a look at FeedBurner Feed Stat[']s for both the blog headline feed and the blog post feed that I'd redirected through FeedBurner, respectively:
A difference discernible in spite of the disparate ages of the redirected feeds is in how the feeds get used. The Headlines go to FeedBurner Email subscriptions, and, although there also is a "Get Mailed: Posts" from FeedBurner gadget in the blog sidebar, too, the Posts, by and large, go into feed readers and aggregators – over the past seven to 30 days, mainly to Mozilla Compatible Agents (5-10), Google FeedCatcher (2-3), and PubSub (2 [unchanged]).
Also over the past seven to thirty days, but for neither feed, have there been any hits (clicks on the feeds) from either Google Chrome or Internet Explorer browsers. Most hits have been from Firefox browsers; next most, from other Mozilla driven browsers.
The remainder of this post lists other findings as well as sources of this information, to which you may not have access (except in parallel locales relevant to your own FeedBurner feeds).
__________
Source: The Writing Studio Blog: Headlines – Analyze (Google FeedBurner)
Source: The Writing Studio Blog: Posts – Analyze (Google FeedBurner)
So today I took a look at FeedBurner Feed Stat[']s for both the blog headline feed and the blog post feed that I'd redirected through FeedBurner, respectively:
- Headlines: February 25, 2007
- Posts: January 15, 2009
A difference discernible in spite of the disparate ages of the redirected feeds is in how the feeds get used. The Headlines go to FeedBurner Email subscriptions, and, although there also is a "Get Mailed: Posts" from FeedBurner gadget in the blog sidebar, too, the Posts, by and large, go into feed readers and aggregators – over the past seven to 30 days, mainly to Mozilla Compatible Agents (5-10), Google FeedCatcher (2-3), and PubSub (2 [unchanged]).
Also over the past seven to thirty days, but for neither feed, have there been any hits (clicks on the feeds) from either Google Chrome or Internet Explorer browsers. Most hits have been from Firefox browsers; next most, from other Mozilla driven browsers.
The remainder of this post lists other findings as well as sources of this information, to which you may not have access (except in parallel locales relevant to your own FeedBurner feeds).
The Writing Studio Blog: Headlines
Current
33 subscribers
Last Seven Days: Wednesday, March 31 – Tuesday, April 06
28 subscribers (on average)
"This number provides a general understanding of the size of your subscriber base over a time period" (FeedBurner Help, What is a Subscriber? How does FeedBurner tally them? How does it look?).Last 30 Days: Monday, March 08 – Tuesday, April 06
28 subscribers (on average)
- including 27 email subscriptions
All Time: Sunday, February 25, 2007 – Tuesday, April 6, 2010
- since adding Post Feed Redirect URL to blog Site Feed settings
- jumped from two to almost 30 in April 2008
18 subscribers (on average)
- 18 email subscriptions
Source: The Writing Studio Blog: Headlines – Analyze (Google FeedBurner)
The Writing Studio Blog: Posts
Current
55 subscribers
- more than doubles average for Last Seven Days (below)
- almost triples average for Last 30 Days (below)
Last Seven Days: Wednesday, March 31 – Tuesday, April 06
24 subscribers (on average)
- including one email subscription
1 reach (on average)
"At any given time, you can expect that a certain percentage of this subscriber base is actively engaging with your content and this “Reach” measurement provides this additional insight." (FeedBurner Help, What is Reach?, What does it tell you?).Last 30 Days: Monday, March 08 – Tuesday, April 06
19 subscribers (on average)
- including one email subscription
1 reach (on average)
All Time: Friday, January 15, 2010 – Tuesday, April 6, 2010
- since adding Post Feed Redirect URL to blog Site Feed settings
16 subscribers (on average)
- zero email subscriptions
0 reach (on average)
__________Source: The Writing Studio Blog: Posts – Analyze (Google FeedBurner)
PABeaufaitBookmarks 04/08/2010
AWL Sublists - exercises & sublists
"For the exercises given in this website, the word families for each sublist have been further divided into six groups for ease of study, with three separate gap-fill exercises for each group" (¶2).
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 04/07/2010
An Intellectual Property Primer for Online Instructors
Main sections include: Copyright and Fair Use, The TEACH Act, Academic Traditions in Intellectual Property, Protecting your Intellectual Property, Using Other People's Property, and a Conclusion (sidebar)
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 04/01/2010
Social networking threat to language learning
provides overview, includes link to Full research report
Free Technology for Teachers: Use Drop.io's Upload Widget to Collect Student Work
"Drop.io offers a simple upload widget that you can embed into your course blog or website" ( ¶2). Mr Byrne's 2010.02.25 post includes slideshow of "directions for installing the Drop.io upload widget on Blogger blogs and Edublogs blogs" (¶2).
Welcome to Fotobabble - Talking Photos
Allows uploading photos plus voice recording, and generates embed-able widgets; free with username, password, and email registration
Op-Ed Contributor - Shake, Rattle, Seattle - NYTimes.com
"Despite Chile’s exacting construction codes, which often exceed those of California and Japan, the performance of numerous high-rise buildings was worryingly poor" (¶2).
How To Write the Perfect Password
10 tips for better password protection
U.S. Considers 'Internet Access for All'
In his "Blueprint for Change" economic recovery document, President Obama said that America "should lead the world in broadband penetration and Internet access."
Data indicates, however, that the U.S. is far behind other nations when it comes to providing broadband access for its citizens. Figures from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) show a sharp decline in U.S. broadband access rank among its 30 member nations. In 2001, the U.S. ranked 4th, but by the end of 2008 had fallen to 15th place.
As for speed, Akamai, one of the largest global networks, released its "Q3 2009 State of the Internet" report that shows the U.S. 18th with an average connection speed of 3.9 Mbps. In first place was South Korea, which clocked in at 14.6 Mbps. (America Lagging, ¶¶1-3)
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/30/2010
How Do You Feel When Someone Copies and Pastes Your Post? | The Edublogger
Shows and tells ways attributing quotations of words or short passages about which you blog to their original authors with links and acknowledgements
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Monday, March 29, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/29/2010
Macmillan’s DynamicBooks Lets Professors Rewrite E-Textbooks - NYTimes.com
"Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes" (Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally, para. 1).
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/25/2010
Daring Fireball: An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox
story of 100% data recovery, and suggestions for disk failure preparedness
TidBITS Opinion: Why Google Wave Needs a Major Overhaul
extensive review by Adam C. Engst
Wordle - Writing III-IV (2010-11)
Wordle of syllabus for Writing III-IV (2010-11)
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/23/2010
More problems with generation « explorations in the ed tech world
links to Friesen's pres. at the Open Ed conference
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Remember the Exxon Valdez
Keep off the gas!
This post follows on from Aren't Otters Extraordinarily Cute (pab's potpourri, 2009.04.01), 21 years on from the event that inspired composition of these bits and pieces. Pictures remind us vividly what our dependence on oil costs. If you need a graphic reminder, please check out these collections:- Seattle Times: Media Center: Photo Galleries: Exxon Valdez Spill;
- Flickr Creative Commons: oil spill; and
- Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council public domain pictures.
Further consequences of the Valdez spillage
Though a corporate piece on Spill prevention says,"The clean-up was declared complete by the State of Alaska and the U.S. Coast Guard in 1992" (ExxonMobil, [no date]), that must have been in reference to immediate and superficial clean-up, rather than restoration, and Mapes suggests undetected harm was still coming to light:
"Still to be litigated is a claim against Exxon by the federal government and state of Alaska for $92 million in so-called "re-opener" damages, intended to help pay for environmental harm not detected at the time of the spill."
(Mapes, 2008, The damage remains, ¶4)
Alaska's Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council paints a grim picture, not three but ten years after the Valdez ran ground:
"...[O]ne of the most stunning revelations of Trustee Council-funded monitoring over the last ten years is that Exxon Valdez oil persists in the environment and[,] in places, is nearly as toxic as it was the first few weeks after the spill."
(Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, no date, Status of Restoration, Lingering oil, ¶1)
"The amount of Exxon Valdez oil remaining substantially exceeds the sum total of all previous oil pollution on beaches in Prince William Sound, including oil spilled during the 1964 earthquake. This Exxon Valdez oil is decreasing at a rate of 0-4% per year, with only a 5% chance that the rate is as high as 4%. At this rate, the remaining oil will take decades and possibly centuries to disappear entirely."
(Exxon ValdezOil Spill Trustee Council, no date, Status of Restoration Lingering oil, ¶4)
Who has payed what price?
Who was ship's Master during the spill?
"Hazelwood was acquitted on all felony charges, but was convicted of a misdemeanor charge of negligent discharge of oil, fined $50,000, and sentenced to 1,000 hours of community service" (Wikipedia, Joseph Hazelwood, Exxon Valdez oil spill, ¶ 2 [2010.03.22]).
What says ExxonMobil?
A blurb on a corporate current issues web page says they "took immediate responsibility for the spill and have spent over $3.8 billion as a result of the accident, including compensatory payments, cleanup payments, settlements and fines" (ExxonMobil, 2009). That blurb doesn't specify what part of that $3.8, up from $3.5 (ExxonMobil, 2007) includes money spent on legal fees and court costs through appeals:
- To the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to reduce punitive damages from 4.5 to 2.5 billion (ExxonMobil, 2006), and then
- To "the Supreme Court [which] slashed those damages to about $500 million" (Lanfitt, 2008, ¶1).
A Seattle Times article pegs that figure at $507.5 million (Mapes, 2008, ¶2), and a factoid in the sidebar of that article suggests that it will take Exxon "about 12 hours of sales" to recoup that amount. ExxonMobil calls it $508 million (no date, ¶2).
How are our maths? (in rough billions USD)
3.8 Spent (ExxonMobil, 2009)
- 0.5 Compensation ordered (Mapes, 2008)
- 0.5 Punitive damages (Lanfit, 2008)
2.8 Other expenditures
Do those other expenditures include Exxon's legal costs? Mapes (2008) suggests there were "more than 60 / law firms involved" (sidebar: The spill by the numbers: The money).
When next where: Five more years till double hulls?
The U.S. "Congress has enacted legislation requiring all tankers to be double-hulled by 2015" (Wikipedia, 2010, Other consquences, ¶1). What about other countries?Better keep our feet off the gas for a few more years.
References
- Exxon ValdezOil Spill Trustee Council. ([no date]). Lingering oil. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/recovery/lingeringoil.cfm
- ExxonMobil (2006). ExxonMobil response to inquiries about 9th Circuit Court of Appeals 12/22/06 ruling on Valdez punitive damages, December 26, 2006. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/about_issues_valdez_sc_022708.aspx
- ExxonMobil. (2006). 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on Valdez, December 26, 2006. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/about_issues_valdez.aspx
- ExxonMobil. (2007). U.S. Supreme Court to hear Valdez appeal. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/about_issues_valdez_sc_103007.aspx
- ExxonMobil. (2009). Information and updates regarding the 1989 Valdez oil spill, March 19, 2009 [the most recent announcement, as of retrieval]. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from href="http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/about_issues_valdez.aspx
- ExxonMobil. ([no date]). Spill prevention. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/energy_impact_spill.aspx
- Lagnfitt, F. (2008). Supreme Court Cuts Damages in Exxon Valdez Spill. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91881057
- Mapes, Lynda V. (2008). Supreme Court drastically cuts payouts for plaintiffs in Exxon Valdez oil spill. The Seattle Times, Local News, June 26, 2008. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008018035_exxon26m.html
- Supreme Court of the United States. (2008). Journal: October 2007 Term. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/journal/jnl07.pdf
- Wikipedia (2010). Exxon Valdez oil spill. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/22/2010
Instructional Strategies Online - Graphic Organizers
explanations, suggestions, and links to resources
... [17] Interesting Ways to use Wallwisher in the Classroom - Sharein
CC 3.0 BY-NC-SA licensed presentation of tips for teachers
eBooks Search Engine
Modèles de BDHY by bdhy - Google 3D Warehouse
"Mes modèles séléctionnés dans Google Earth.
Updated Mar 18, 2010" (retrieved 2010.03.33)
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/21/2010
eLearning Blog Dont Waste Your Time
"eLearning, Web 2.0, Blogging and the stuff in between" (tagline)
Friesen, Norm. (2009). .... New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Nadine Norris comments on "effective collaboration", gives a definition gleaned from a related video on EdutopiaLearning and Working in the Collaborative Age, c. 2008), and offers a set of questions for self-assessment.
Facilitating a distributed discussion - an experiment by ClintLalonde.net
introduces a week-long experiment in "facilitating discussion through networked learning outside a closed discussion forum" (PB, Tools [SCoPE Moodle discussion], 19 March 2010, 09:06 PM)
Ted Panitz
Web2Access - Products - Type with Me
Univ. of Southampton's evaluation of a "Web 2.0 Service" offers a brief description and assessments from three perspectives: 1) accessibility, 2) disability-tailoring, and 3) activities for which Type with Me is useful, namely: a) Group Discussion; b) Text-based Editable Information [compilation], c) Note Taking, and d) Collaborative Writing.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
"We are they" (Lessig, Webside Chat @ Harvard).
Live at Harvard University - slides and audio
(Lawrence Lessig, Blip.tv, 2010.02.25 [42:15])
Removed from YouTube
"... since Lessig’s slidecast ... contained 15-second clips of copyrighted music by Warner Music" (Adi Kamdar, Open Video Alliance, Irony: Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig Silenced by Copyright, 2010.03.??)"... [W]e are currently working on a high quality archived version of the speech" (Neil Bates, Flumotion, Lawrence Lessig Wireside Chat on Copyright Silenced by Copyright, 2010.03.10)
Friday, March 19, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/19/2010
"Some roles relate to the task aspect of the group, while others promote social interaction. A third set of roles are self-centered and can be destructive for the group" (Roles in Groups, ¶1).
- Some roles relate to the task aspect of the group, while others promote social interaction. A third set of roles are self-centered and can be destructive for the group.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
'Bout time for a human post, eh? How 'bout some web radio fav's?
Radio stations discovered in iTunes:
TOP FM Ambient: "1ère RADIO CELTIQUE DE FRANCE" (TOP FM WEBRADIOS GRATUITES)
- Blues
WEMU-FM: "Blues, jazz and news from Ann Arbor's NPR affiilate" (WEMU Ypsilanti, MI)
- Classic
- Jazz
Fréquence Fusion: "La Radio Qui Fusionne Avec Tes Hits ..." (Nice, France)
- Reggae
La Yaute Reggae: "La Yaute Reggae diffuse que de son reggae..." (St Jean D'Aulps [?], France)
So far, so good! I can hardly wait to try La Yaute Celtic. I just wish iTunes would stay tuned to a station when you shut down and restart.
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/18/2010
SCoPE Collaboration Seminar - MindMeister Mind Map
Initiated March 2010
"TBL as an instructional strategy is profoundly different from just "using teams" in your courses. / TBL is an integrated system comprised of several elements that synergize to create powerful learning experiences for both students and teachers" (Why the trademark? ll. 1-2).
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/17/2010
Free Technology for Teachers: Nine Tools for Collaboratively Creating Mind Maps
"The following list contains nine tools that can be used by students to create mind maps independently or collaboratively" (¶1).
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/16/2010
Vocabulary Games - SAT/GRE words, Vocabulary Context Skills, Medical Jargon and more
"Named 'Outstanding Resource' by WebEnglishTeacher.com" (sidebar)
100 Little Ways You Can Dramatically Improve Your Writing | Online Colleges
Devices you say… | Literary and Rhetorical Devices
"Rhetoric is the ancient art of argumentation and discourse. Thus, rhetorical devices would be the devices used to manipulate the language to effectively transmit the author’s message to a reader" (Devices you say..., ¶1).
concept map of English sentence structure
from thewritingteacher.org
EmpTech: Products by Sub-Category: Organizational Tools: Mindmapping (Software)
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Monday, March 15, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/15/2010
"A weekly webcast on the EdTechTalk channel of the WorldBridges network"
Resource rich blog post primed for group specific discussion facilitated within Diigo
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/14/2010
Collaborative Projects | LearnCentral
"Some tips to build a successful collaborative project" (Description, para. 1)
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/13/2010
Web2Access - Activities - Collaborative Writing
"Sites that allow users to work with others on documents, or provide a shared workspace" (para. 1).
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Friday, March 12, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/12/2010
Building a Better Teacher - NYTimes.com
By ELIZABETH GREEN
Published: March 2, 2010
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/11/2010
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Top of site introduced by Bernard Robin on Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (FutureofEducation, 2010.03.10)
See in particular: Essentials and Web 2.0
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/10/2010
CollegeMaps.com • hedbergmaps.com
"Hedberg Maps publishes over 100 maps covering the world of American higher education. Since 1994, we’ve been helping prospective students, their parents and counselors, and academic professionals find their way around America’s educational landscape." (Welcome..., ¶1)
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Saturday, March 06, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/06/2010
Catching the Google Wave by Bill Brandon: Page 2 : Learning Solutions Magazine
2nd page of article on Google Wave in early stage of development (2009.11.02)
- Tags aid in searching. If a participant wants to find other waves that are tagged with “devlearn,” it may be more efficient to use that tag than to use Search.
- The Comprehensive Usage Guide to Google Wave
- New and Previewed Wave Features – What Are You Seeing – ContentWave ( TM )
- Useful Public Waves
- Search Cheat Sheet
- Google Wave Extensions (Copy)
There are quite a few waves that are very useful, run by users rather than by Google. Here are the ones that have become my favorites (you can find these by using Search from within Wave):
- with:public [keyword] (Finds public waves with that keyword in them, for example with:public Mobile Learning finds public waves that have Mobile Learning in the name or in the wave. Note that this also brings back waves that contain “Mobile, Alabama” – the Cheat Sheet explains the search operators that Wave uses, which are as arcane as the rest of the syntax.)
- in:inbox (shows all the waves you are listening to)
- by:me (all the waves I have contributed to)
- by:[WAVid] (all the waves this person has contributed to)
About Searching
Make good use of the Search Cheat Sheet listed above. The search syntax in Wave is a bit arcane, or at least it seems so to me. Here are the terms I have been using most often, with a short explanation of each in parentheses:
Catching the Google Wave by Bill Brandon : Learning Solutions Magazine
- When you first get your Wave account, any contacts in your Gmail address book who also have Wave accounts will automatically appear in your Contacts panel. (You must have a Gmail account to use Wave, by the way.) You can also add Wave users to your Contacts by searching for them, or by opening the “Manage Contacts” link and typing their WavID.
- if you open the Inbox link in the Navigation panel, any and all waves in it will appear in the Search panel. The same is true if you open, for example, one of your folders.
- The ellipsis at the end of the ribbon opens up a drop-down menu of other functions, such as moving a wave to a different Folder.
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Friday, March 05, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/05/2010
September 2, 2002
... about an international conference to standardize the names of cities, countries, and other features of the landscape.August 19, 2002: Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is out to cleanse the Japanese language of English influences. ...
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know published by Houghton Mifflin Company
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know published by Houghton Mifflin Company
4th edition list from the Editors of American Heritage Dictionaries mentioned in a program on NPR: 100 Key Words (2002.11.17 [+ audio]).
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/04/2010
"This resource aims to help those making decisions about their use of freely available 'Web 2.0' interactive and collaborate e-learning tools" (Welcome to Web2Access)..
Self assessment and tutorial
Educational Leadership:Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Footprints in the Digital Age
ASCD publication
Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman
Personas "uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you."
find out about anything
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010
PABeaufaitBookmarks 03/03/2010
How to Save the World: Will that Be Coordination, Cooperation, or Collaboration?
"Three Words: Coordination, Cooperation, and Collaboration, are often used interchangeably. They shouldn't be." (The Idea, ¶1)\n
Share recommended readings using Mendeley’s Public Collections
Six step production of recommended reading lists for publication in other sites
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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PABeaufaitBookmarks 02/26/2010
YouTube - Diigo - Improving how we find, share, and save information | Diigo
This video offers suggestions for use of Diigo for research projects and literary studies.
2-3 columns, artistic, minimalistic, ...
Main Page - Canadian Podcast Buffet (MediaWiki)
"The purpose of this site is to help all levels of podcasters, from newcomers to those with many years of experience."
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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