Posts from pab's ning t'ing

Today's the last day I can say:

[I'm a member of pab's ning t'ing]

Free access to such Ning networking sites is phasing out as I type. As a matter of fact, I wonder how long the badge (gadget) that I've embedded above will last.

I've grabbed a couple of posts from My Blog on that site as keepsakes:

pab's ning t'ing

a microcosm in a nanosecond 

Tweaking RSS Feeds on Main Page

• Posted by pab on February 21, 2008 at 6:02pm

In order to show enough, but not too much, of the posts coming in through RSS feeds on the Main page, I have tweaked the settings on the various feeds:

1. Blogger blog feeds: Titles only - five per blog

The first couple of Blogger feeds, if not all of them, were coming through in full - with embedded videos and all the rest of the media dragging down page loading insufferably. So I trimmed them back to titles only. Then I increased the number of recent posts showing from three to five to show more a bit more content, and make it slightly easier to distinguish one blog feed from the next.

2. Edublogs and Vox blog feeds: Extended views - three per blog

Since RSS feeds from both of these types of blogs seem to limit themselves to several lines of text, I went ahead with the extended view option for all of them. However, I limited each feed display to the three most recent post, so as not to make it necessarily to scroll virtually endlessly to read down through the entire list of posts.

Arranging RSS Feeds on Main Page: Like Herding Cats?

• Posted by pab on February 21, 2008 at 5:00pm

Arranging RSS feeds in the Main page today has taken much more time here in Ning than it does on any page in Pageflakes. That is mainly because when you go to Manage - Features in Ning, you cannot see any content in the modular elements, or edit the titles on them to make them readily identifiable. Moreover, you cannot rearrange the elements directly in Ning page view like you can in Pageflakes.

The Main Page of pab's ning t'ing now contains nine RSS feeds, three from each of three educators in the Weblogging in Kumamoto (WinK) community. I've organized those nine feeds alphabetically: first by authors' family names (unlisted), then by blog titles. I reckon the list will stay in that order for a while, at least.

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 08/19/2010

• ELI Discovery Tool: Collaborative Learning Workshop Guide | EDUCAUSE

  "comprehensive collaborative learning workshop guide, developed from the ELI 2009 Fall Focus Session" (¶3, retrieved 2010.08.18)

  tags: collaboration technology collaborative learning learning spaces resources workshops learning EDUCAUSE education guides

• Interview with Charles Fadel on the Neuroscience of Learning | Learncentral

  In this interview by Steve Hargedon (Tuesday, August 10th, 2010), Charles Fadel "review[s] the basic mechanisms [of learning] (physiological and cognitive) ... [and] address[es] understanding (the 5 C's: Context, Caring, Construction, Competence, Community). He ... also cover[s] issues of plasticity, timeliness, interdependence of dualities and various socio-cultural differences, as well as applications to multimodal learning, and how to evaluate interactivity" (Detail[ed] Description, ¶1, retrieved 2010.08.18).\n \n

  tags: cognition learning memory motivation multi-modal neuroscience

• The Ning Thing [TESL-EJ: June 2010—Volume 14, Number 1] - Annotated

  Vance Stevens recaps recent Ning corporate decisions influencing virtual educational community developers, and outlines alternatives.

  tags: Ning virtual communities networking social networking social networking sites

  • it would be folly for educators having suffered inconvenience at best, data loss at worst, to commit their content yet again to a potentially unreliable cloud provider. Alec Couros sees this kind of thing happening more and more in the crystal ball future and suggests that schools and educators would be better off investing in self-hosting using FOSS, free and open source software (Couros, 2010).
  • As suggested above, the only reliable alternative to Ning is to host your community yourself, or at a trusted institution, where you do your own regular backups, and your content is safe behind a firewall, with a UPS power source in case of power outages, and perhaps some sort of RAID system to keep you running through system crashes.

• The Non-Designer's Design Book - Google Books

  Offers previews of book by Robin Williams (Peachpit Press, 2008)

  tags: books design proximity alignment repetition contrast

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 08/18/2010

• TOEIC(R) | Group Application | Differences between SP test and IP test group applcations | Japan

  Chart for comparison of Secure Program and Institutional Program TOEIC and TOEIC Bridge

  tags: ETS TOEIC English language tests

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

PABeaufaitBookmarks 08/07/2010

• 
  
  Blogger in Draft: Introducing Blogger Stats
  "Blogger Stats ... monitors and analyzes your visitor traffic in near-real-time. You can see which posts are getting the most visits and which sites are sending traffic to your blog" (Staszek Paśko and Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineers; THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010; ¶2, retrieved 2010.08.06).
  tags: Blogger Blogger in Draft blog traffic statistics blog gadgets and widgets

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 08/06/2010

• Introduction to LessonWriter

  Demo video shows Bloom's taxonomy-based question prompts used to help generate text-based worksheets with the automated, online, lesson preparation tool, LessonWriter.

  tags: LessonWriter lesson plans lessons worksheets Bloom Bloom's taxonomy tools technology teaching

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 08/04/2010

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Changing the way we think

  "The current generation of 'search engines' seem to encourage a model of exploration that is disposed towards assimilative learning, finding sources, references and documents which can be slotted into existing frameworks, rather than providing material for deeper contemplation of the sort that could provoke accommodation and the extension, revision or even abandonment of views, opinions or even whole belief systems" (Tech drug, ¶10, retrieved 2010.08.04).

  tags: assimilation accomodation BBC brains concentration learning Piaget technology searches

• Google Drawings - Google Docs Help

  Access point for help and tutorials - Categories include: Getting Started; Organizing your Docs List; Creating and Editing Drawings; Sharing, Collaborating and Publishing; Uploading and Exporting; Fixing a Problem; and More.

  tags: drawings documents Google Docs Google graphics concept mapping and outlining wink_students

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 08/03/2010

• CI5472 Teaching Film, Television, and Media

  "This website is designed to support the book Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Web-Linked Guide to Resources and Activities" (index page, ¶1, 2010.08.03)

  tags: teaching resources wikis media literacy curriculum literacy film media education

• Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools

  Authors of Teaching Writing Using Blogs... are hoping to collect "material related to the topics in this wikibook: links, references, files, descriptions of teaching activities, or student work." For permission to comment on or edit this wiki, "request access from Richard Beach, University of Minnesota, at rbeach@umn.edu" (Front Page, 2010.08.03).

  tags: writing tools teaching resources wikis activities

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 08/01/2010

• Q is for Quote marks « An A-Z of ELT

  Fascinating perspectives, including comments on 2010.07.26, on the use or omission of quotation marks for a variety of pragmatic purposes and stylistic effects.

  tags: writing punctuation quotations quotes pragmatics stylistics

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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

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/29/2010

• Tomei's Typing Tools

  Typing topic generator (favorites), timer, and word-count tool, plus a list of practice typing sites

  tags: practice, tools, typing, wink_students

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/25/2010

• Social Media Workshop « Language Acquisition Resource Center

  Blended participation, 2010.08.09-13 (PDT): "What’s happening with blogs, wikis, podcasts and social networking?  How can we use the tools our students use to connect, share, and inform in the language classroom?"

  tags: social, media, workshops, blended, online, summer institute, education, learning, teaching, technology, languages

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/22/2010

• Reputation Management and Social Media | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

  "Reputation management has now become a defining feature of online life for many internet users, especially the young. While some internet users are careful to project themselves online in a way that suits specific audiences, other internet users embrace an open approach to sharing information about themselves and do not take steps to restrict what they share" (OVERVIEW, ¶2).

  tags: digital footprints, reputation, privacy, social, media, social media, profiles, education, management, adults, young adults

• New YouTube Editor Lets You Remix Your Videos Online

  "YouTube has launched a brand new video editor that allows users to easily remix their own videos and turn them into brand new video creations.  The editor, which has a super simple interface, lets users create clips using pieces of their own videos and music from an AudioSwap library of tunes" (O'Neill, 2010.06.16)

  tags: YouTube, video, remix, editor, tools, online

• Why I Returned My iPad - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review

  "Boredom.
  
  Being bored is a precious thing, a state of mind we should pursue. Once boredom sets in, our minds begin to wander, looking for something exciting, something interesting to land on. And that's where creativity arises." (Bregman, 2010.06.16)

  tags: iPad, creativity, multitasking, connectedness, boredom, tools, technology

• ESL Video :: Free ESL/EFL Video Activities for English Students

  "Learn English with free videos" (tagline, 2010.06.21).

  tags: activities, free, listening, quizzes, skills, viewing, wink_students

• Dogme language teaching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  Represents a do-it-yourself approach to forming and fostering language teaching movements

  tags: Dogme, language, language teaching, methodology, teaching

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/21/2010

• Ed Tech Widgets

  Tim Holt's collection of widgets for educators

  tags: widgets, technology, education

• How To Moderate All Comments and Posts On Student Blogs | The Edublogger

  Explains blog setup with gmail+ addresses, and revising default comment moderation settings to implement post and comment supervision

  tags: comments, moderation, settings

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/18/2010

• Discussion: TESOL | LinkedIn

  "... thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars" (JD Velasquez, relative date: "9 months ago"; retrieved 2010.06.17)

  tags: TESOL, Linkedin, videos, lectures, lists

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/15/2010

• PDFJoin! - Join PDF files online for free.

  tags: pdf, files, tools, technology

• French songs for teaching

  "a tagged collection of songs suitable for teaching French from nursery to early secondary" (tagline, 2010.06.14)

  tags: songs, teaching, French, chansons

• Blogs as Web-Based Portfolios PDF | The Thinking Stick

  Offers "the Free PDF of the Web-Based Portfolio series I’ve been working on for the past couple of months" (Jeff Utrecht, 2010.06.04).

  tags: blogs, web-based, blogging

• Best WebQuests . com - What WebQuests Are (Really)

  tags: Webquests, education, technology, constructivism

  • The main critical attribute of a WebQuest is to facilitate this transformation of information into a newly constructed, assimilated understanding.
  • WebQuests aren’t anything new. What they are is a way to integrate a number of sound learning strategies while also making substantial educational use of the Web.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/12/2010

• Dash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  tags: dashes, en dash, em dash, punctuation, style, Wikipedia, wink_students

• Online Community Toolkit

  "... building or hosting an online community? Looking for specific tips, tools and ideas? Start here." (Last edited 1/06, retrieved 2010.06.11)

  tags: case studies, communities, communities of practice, facilitation, tools

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/10/2010

• Tutorial for Flash MP3 Player

  Explains how to adapt  a WordPress audio player plugin for use in web pages and Blogger posts, which for Blogger requires template modification

  tags: podcasting and digital storytelling, Flash, audio

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/09/2010

• Protecting Your Privacy On Social Networking Sites : NPR

  Science Friday program in which Ira Flatow discusses privacy issues relating in particular to Facebook and Twitter with Rich Mogull and Michael Zimmer

  tags: privacy, networking, social, technology, tools, NPR

• Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard

  "Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into desktop apps." 

  tags: browsers, SSBs, applications, MacOSX, free

• Prism - Get Started

  Site-specific browser extension and stand-alone application

  tags: applications, browsers, SSBs, free

• : : : British Council - English Teacher's Portfolio : : :

  "... a unique self-study language improvement programme, specifically designed to help Brazilian teachers of English develop listening and speaking skills. / ETP focuses on pronunciation and vocabulary development. There are also teaching tips and all from a Brazilian context." (English Teachers' Portfolios, ¶¶1-2)

  tags: Brazil, British Council, English, listening, pronunciation, self-access, speaking, skills

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/08/2010

• Abstract and Findings — Eportfolios:

  This page introduces findings from Meg Goodine's examination of numerous case studies in comparison with broader post-secondary electronic portfolio research. "While not a silver bullet, with careful planning and attention to key questions, there is strong evidence that eportfolios can help students more authentically demonstrate what they have learned and connect this learning to their lives beyond our institutions." (Abstract, ¶4, retrieved 2010.06.07)

  tags: SCoPE, seminars, portfolios, higher education, reports, research, post-secondary

• QUT | Australian ePortfolio Project | Australian ePortfolio Project - Final Report

  Stage 1 "findings revealed that there was a high level of interest in the use of ePortfolios in the context of higher education, particularly in terms of the potential to help students become reflective learners who are conscious of their personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, as well as to make their existing and developing skills more explicit."

  tags: SCoPE, seminars, portfolios, Australia, higher education, research, reports

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/06/2010

• 10 Simple Google Search Tricks - NYTimes.com

  10 of Simon Mackiie's favorites (2010.04.02)

  tags: Google, search, NYTimes, tips, wink_students

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/31/2010

• Change Magazine - May/June 2010

  "In this article, I want to go beyond just enrollment numbers to examine key indicators about male experience in college. As I will show, the story about men in higher education doesn't boil down to either “men are in trouble” or “men are fine,” as popular debates might suggest. Instead, both assertions have some truth." (Marcus B. Weaver-HIghtower, ¶3, retrieved 2010.05.31) 

  tags: education, enrollment, gender, graduation, post-secondary, pay differential, tertiary, statistics

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/28/2010

• Thinklinkr: signup and start outlining

  "Basic
  FREE forever
  Unlimited public outlines
  No private outlines" (Choose a pricing plan)

  tags: free, collaborative, online, outliners, concept mapping and outlining, thinklinkr

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/26/2010

• Pearson Longman Author Link

  tags: authors, ELT, Longman, Pearson

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/25/2010

• Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options - Graphic - NYTimes.com

  Graphic presentation helping users "navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options" (¶1),

  tags: Facebook, privacy, social media, visualization, infographics, NYTimes, social, infographic

• H2 Handy Recorder

  "...[N]o matter what kind of recording you want to make, the H2 can effortlessly record it" (Simplicity is a beautiful thing, ¶1).

  tags: audio, recorders

• Free online Audio Editor - Aviary.com's Myna

  "Use Myna to remix music tracks and audio clips. Apply sound effects and record your own voice or instruments!" (Tools, Myna, Audio Editor, retrieved 2010.05.24)

  tags: audio, editor, free, mixer, online, recorders, podcasting and digital storytelling, wink_students

• Tag Clouds on Blogger | BTemplates | Diigo

  Covers Blogger native and enhanced CSS options

  tags: clouds, tags

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/24/2010

• ScreenToaster - Online screen recorder. Capture screencasts instantly.

  "Register & use it anywhere, anytime
  No download. Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux.
  Capture videos of onscreen action in one click
  Record screencasts, tutorials, demos, training, lectures and more.
  Share and stream videos online in Flash
  Embed them on blogs and webpages or send them by email." (Free Online Screen Recorder)

  tags: screencasting, recorders, tools, podcasting and digital storytelling

• DISQUS Comments | Powering Discussion on the Web

  Reasons for adopting Disqus Comments

  tags: comments, blogging, social networking

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/22/2010

• Pronunciation Tutorials -

  This tutorial will help you chose the right focus words to emphasize when speaking with a North American Accent.

  tags: tutorials, pronunciation

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/19/2010

• TidBITS Networking: How to Protect Your Privacy from Facebook

  "Thanks to Facebook's complex, ever-changing set of privacy-related options, protecting your privacy on - and from - Facebook is essentially impossible. But by understanding how Facebook's privacy settings currently work, and by following my Three Golden Rules of Facebook Privacy, you can both control what the world knows about you and be prepared for future privacy changes." (¶3)

  tags: Facebook, privacy, networking, TidBITS, social media, social, data

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/18/2010

• The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

  "The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. The population sizes are statistics from Google, the Facebook Data Team, and wild guesses based on what seemed reasonable..." (Matt McKeon, Data, ¶1, 2010.05.18).

  tags: Facebook, privacy, visualization, social media, infographics, social, data

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/16/2010

• Sentenceworks - Home

  "Patent-pending technology identifies problem areas in student writing and delivers instructional feedback on over 100 different points of grammar." (Automated Grammar Tutoring)

  tags: writing, grammar, tutoring, web-based

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Outline for Essay 1-02a: Curling

Introduction

• What sites are about; curling
• How I found them; searched for rules and federations
• Why I chose the one(s) I did: 
• One on Canadian and one on the world associations, plus
• A grab-bag of pre-reviewed sites

Canadian Curling Association

• (Site map: FreeMind [export as JPEG or PNG])
• History
• Rules
• News

World Curling Federation

• (Site map: FreeMind)
• History
• Rules
• News

Other websites of interest about curling

• List
• Features
• Sections
• Highlights

Conclusion

• Summary of selections
• Summary of highlights
• Recommendations to readers

[100 words]

Outline for Essay 1-02a: Curling

Introduction

• What sites are about
• How you found them
• Why you chose the one(s) you did

Canadian Curling Association

• Map of site (optional)
• Features
• Sections
• Highlights

World Curling Federation

• Map of site (optional)
• Features
• Sections
• Highlights

Other websites of interest

• Features
• Sections
• Highlights

Conclusion

• Summary of selections
• Summary of highlights
• Recommendations

[43 {+ 8} words]

Curling: search terms and short list of possible sites for review

Search terms

curling, associations, rules, Canada, Japan

Short list of possible sites (3+)

1. Canadian Curling Association
2. World Curling Federation
3. Top Curling Sites Reviewed – The 10 Best Curling Websites

[28 words]

Curling: Free-writing

I like curling; I don’t know all the rules. There are difference sports associations. Curling is popular in Japan, because NHK and other TV stations broadcast lots of matches with the Japanese players, from places like Aomori and Nagano.

[33 {+6} words]

Winter Sports: Brainstorm

Sports

Winter sports

Olympics

Snow and ice

Ice skating

Ice hockey

Curling

Arena

Players

Equipment

Rules

Scoring

Ends?

Officials

TV broadcasts
NHK

Teams

Aomori

Nagano

Canada

[26 words]

PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/11/2010

• Category:Children's Bookshelf - Gutenberg

  "From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books... " (retrieved 2010.05.10).

  tags: books, children, reading, resources, wink_students

• free mp3 poetry Poets' Coop

  "poetic manuscripts ... available for ... free download", a counterpart of "Pay to Print" and "Print & Listen" collections from the Poets' Coop.

  tags: free, poetry, books, resources, reading

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/07/2010

• WorksheetWorks.com - Graphic Organizers

  "The graphic organizers on our site were selected for their value and broad appeal to many different educational situations" (Graphic Organizers, ¶1, 2010.05.06).

  tags: graphic, organizers, worksheets

• Virtual Organization Management Institute Blog

  "Microsoft Office Live, their version of a web collaboration application, does not even come close to the functionality you find in Google Apps, and seems more and more like an afterthought, with no real push behind that effort." (MICROSOFT. ¶3, 2010.05.06)

  tags: virtual, management, organization, Microsoft, Google

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 05/01/2010

• YouTube - Life After Death by PowerPoint

  Found via Google Buzz from Carla Arena

  tags: powerpoint, youtube

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