PABeaufaitBookmarks 02/23/2010

• Numbering your blogger Comments ~ Blogger Widgets

  "This trick helps you to number each of your comments under a particular post" (¶1)

  tags: blogging, comments, numbering, templates, tips

• 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)

  tags: blogging, pages, user-friendly

• 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)

  tags: blogging, pages, user-friendly

• 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)

  tags: blogging, gadgets, labels, related posts, templates, widgets

• 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)

  tags: blogging, comments, user-friendly

• Technology in Modern Foreign Languages - A Practitioner's Perspective

  Edited by José Picardo

  tags: language teaching, modern languages, praxis

• Language Learning with Livemocha | Learn a Language Online - Free!

  "Free Online Courses ... in 36 different languages" (2010.02.22)

  tags: courses, conversation skills, free, language learning, languages, native speakers

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 02/22/2010

• Overview | Pew Internet & American Life Project

  Social media and mobile internet use among teens and young adults.February 2010

  tags: blogging, internet, overview, Pew Internet, social media

• 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.

  tags: Blogger, blogging, navigation, pages, templates

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 02/19/2010

• 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).

  tags: free, online, petitions

• 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).

  tags: mobile phones, photography, photos

• A Brief History of Learning With Mobile Computers | Mobile Learning

  tags: mobile learning, mobile technology

• 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)

  tags: music, photos, videos

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 02/16/2010

• room202isb - Wiki WarrantyTerms & Conditions

  "Terms and Conditions (adapted from Sample Wiki Warranty @ TeachersFirst.com)"

  tags: wikis, warranties

• stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site

  "leading FREE stock photo site" wholly owned by Getty Images

  tags: free, images

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 02/10/2010

• 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)

  tags: collaboration, collab-bk-collaboration

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 02/05/2010

• 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.
  

  tags: no_tag

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 02/04/2010

• eInstruction - ExamView Assessment Suite

  ExamView® user guides for Windows and Mac

  tags: assessment, testing, software

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 01/21/2010

• Discussion: Radical Inclusion - Open Virtual Collaboration | LinkedIn

  Introduction on featured discussion thread

  tags: change, collab-bk-collaboration, collaborat*, collaboration, processes

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 01/19/2010

• Dealing with student blogs at the end of the school year! | The Edublogger

  tags: no_tag

  • clearly not a good idea to name you blog with a date

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 01/12/2010

• 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)

  tags: cognitive presence, interaction, learning, learningtimes, social presence, system interaction, interpersonal interaction

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OpenOffice Extensions: Four selections from the top 50

Sun PDF Import Extension

by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Presentation Minimizer

by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Professional Template Pack II - English

by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Web2.0 OpenOffice.org collaboration & document management extension

by O3Spaces B.V.

Martin recommends removing the collaboration and document management extension (Better remove that extension, 2009.11.24), while rmentink suggests Martin's comment is dis-informative and recommends that Martin (and others) "read the eula more carefully" (Please remove the above comment, 2009.11.24).

Earlier on, millm had suggested there was a Trojan in the code (Trojan --- Key Logger, 2008.12.04). Though rmentink disputed that suggestion promptly, at present the Open Office Extensions site indicates only one download, and none this week.

PABeaufaitBookmarks 01/08/2010

• What Is Collaboration?

  Definition of collaboration Sebastien Pacquet point out in Radical Inclusion - Open Virtual Collaboration introductory discussion (Linked-In, c. Nov. 2009).

  tags: collab-bk-collaboration, collaboration

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 01/06/2010

• Free Technology for Teachers: Six Resources for Learning About Fair Use

  media presentations for educators and chart for classroom use

  tags: fair use, Creative Commons, media literacy, copyright

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 12/17/2009

• 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

  tags: collab-bk-blogs-wikis, UBC, WordPress, workshops

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Quick and easy ways of strengthening passwords?

Find out by watching this short video in the Technology section of the New York Times. Animated displays in the foreground reinforce the suggestions from NYT techxperts, J. D. Biersdorfer and Sam Grobart, produced by Jigar Mehta (1:55 min.).

• Yo Jude: Strong Passwords (2009)

I gleaned the link to to that video from the UBC's e-Strategy Update, Blog Archive, Miscellany section (2009.12.09).

PABeaufaitBookmarks 12/15/2009

• 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

  tags: collab-bk-blogs-wikis, tutorials, wikis

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 12/01/2009

• 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'."

  tags: critical thinking

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 11/14/2009

• e-Strategy Update » Blog Archive » e-Portfolios for Teacher Candidates

  Describes use of WordPress MU blogs for mandatory portfolio development in teacher education program

  tags: blogs, teacher education, portfolios, UBC, collab-bk-blogs-wikis, peer coaching

• SAGE book: Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization: David Coghlan, Teresa Brannick: SAGE the natural home for authors, editors and societies.

  tags: no_tag

• 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.

  tags: autonomy, learning, proceedings

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 11/06/2009

• 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).

  tags: Google Wave, communication, collaboration, repository, personal learning environments

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 11/02/2009

• ELI Online Fall Focus Session (ELIFS09) - 17 Resources

  Presentations tagged ELIFS09, many on collaboration

  tags: collaboration, collab-bk-collaboration, ELI

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