- This post provided reflections from multiple perspectives on prospects for streamlining submission and reviewing of scholarly articles. The blog on which it appeared seems to partially fulfil the mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (sidebar blurb).
- One challenge I’m considering is how we can better capture and surface information that is currently lost in the submission process. For example, many journals ask for highlights, key findings, implications, publicity/outreach summaries, statements of novelty and so on as part of the submission process, to assist editorial triage and review. Often, this information is never published alongside the article. Why not?
- When Charlie Rapple joined the crew in The Scholarly Kitchen in Feb. 2015, David Crotty wrote: "Charlie is a co-founder of Kudos, which helps researchers, institutions, funders and publishers maximize the visibility of research (covered in 2013 in this post). Charlie is also the Associate Director of strategic publishing consultancy TBI Communications, Treasurer of UKSG, and an Associate Editor of Learned Publishing" (Welcoming a New Chef into the Kitchen: Charlie Rapple, http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/02/23/welcoming-a-new-chef-into-the-kitchen-charlie-rapple/).
- Publishers have worked hard over the last decade to streamline the submission process and reduce the time from submission to publication, but this does not address the issue that causes the largest delay, which is having to reformat and resubmit papers to multiple journals.
- When Michael Clarke started blogging for The Scholarly Kitchen in 2009, he was "currently principal for Clarke Publishing Group." He also had "worked at the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the University of Chicago Press" (Welcome Michael Clarke to the Kitchen, http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/06/15/welcome-michael-clarke-to-the-kitchen/).
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In this book review, Ingfei Chen surmised, "Combing through decades of cognitive science investigations of memory and learning, he [the book's author, Benedict Cary] has pulled together its best lessons into a practical and engaging guide" (¶4), and paraphrased advice to the effect that, "Students need to understand that learning happens not only during reading and studying, but in all sorts of ways, so that they can examine their own habits to know which ones may be helping or not, and make adjustments" (Experimenting with learning tactics, ¶4).
- Combing through decades of cognitive science investigations of memory and learning, he has pulled together its best lessons into a practical and engaging guide
- Students need to understand that learning happens not only during reading and studying, but in all sorts of ways, so that they can examine their own habits to know which ones may be helping or not, and make adjustments
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A wake up call to use available know-how to save millions of human lives and trillions of dollars that future outbreaks could take.
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This site claimed to be "the leading international education and experiential travel resource" (2015.04.06). Major site divisions apparent in tabs near the top of the home page seemed to cover interning, studying, volunteering, and teaching abroad.
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The original piece is here: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/2014/08/navigating_the_two_kinds_of_online_discussion_forums.html
- It's hard to have a functional conversation online with hundreds or thousands of people, and it's hard to find what you are looking for in sprawling threads
- Duh! (¶2, 2015.04.060
- Questions can have right answers; discussions can't
- Really?!? Since when?
- all kinds of ideas, pedagogies, assumptions, and beliefs are baked into technical design decisions
- Including the hard and fast, yet perhaps philosophically and pedagogically untenable distinctions between questions and (other) discussion prompts on edX.
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"HarvardWrites is a joint venture of the Harvard College Writing Program, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the departments and schools represented on our site. The project was made possible through a generous grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching" (Digital Initiative, ¶1, 2015.04.06). The homepage had distracting (read annoying), endlessly animated in both first and second screenfuls.
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"A capitonym is a word whose meaning changes based on whether or not it is capitalized" (n.d.). Thanks to Sandra Nelson for pointing this out to the LearningwithComputers group way back when!
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
Sunday, April 05, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
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Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change | Talk Video | TED.com
- burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars
- We cannot reduce animal numbers to rest it more without causing desertification and climate change. We cannot burn it without causing desertification and climate change. What are we going to do? There is only one option, I'll repeat to you, only one option left to climatologists and scientists, and that is to do the unthinkable, and to use livestock, bunched and moving, as a proxy for former herds and predators, and mimic nature. There is no other alternative left to mankind.
- What we are doing globally is causing climate change as much as, I believe, fossil fuels, and maybe more than fossil fuels. But worse than that, it is causing hunger, poverty, violence, social breakdown and war, and as I am talking to you, millions of men, women and children are suffering and dying. And if this continues, we are unlikely to be able to stop the climate changing, even after we have eliminated the use of fossil fuels.
- if we do what I am showing you here, we can take enough carbon out of the atmosphere and safely store it in the grassland soils for thousands of years, and if we just do that on about half the world's grasslands that I've shown you, we can take us back to pre-industrial levels, while feeding people. I can think of almost nothing that offers more hope for our planet, for your children, and their children, and all of humanity.
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Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change | Talk Video | TED.com
- burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars
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Suffix Prefix Dictionary - A dictionary of suffix and prefix meanings
This site boasted it was "the most comprehensive online dictionary of biological and medical prefixes and suffixes" (2015.04.03).
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Why Use Active Learning? | ablconnect
This page highlighted menus for: Research on Learning Goals, Research on Activity Types, and More Research. It also posited a group (and partnership) "goal to collect, categorize, and curate specific instances of active [and activity-based] learning across multiple institutions."
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How to Make a Presentation Stick
Kruse summarized six principles for making memorable presentations with a mnemonic, SUCCESS: Simplicity Unexpectedness Credentials Concreteness Emotions Stories
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Rubrics - Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation - Carnegie Mellon University
The Eberly Center [for] TEEL: Design & Teach a Course > Teach Your Course > Rubrics page defined rubric, cited advantages, and gave examples of rubrics for assessing class participation, presentations, project work, and writing assignments.
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Derek Bruff reflected on a conference presentation by Linda Nilson, and provided links to both a background article and slides from the presentation.
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TED Talk Takeaways: 8 Ways to Hook Your Audience
SlideShare Blog post by Gavin McMahon (2014.07.30)
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On-Screen Proofreading: A Handbook for Editors of Academic and Scientific Articles
Olson, Linda. (2014). On-screen proof-reading: A handbook for editors of academic and scientific articles. [n.p.]: eAcademia.
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The Top 42 Widgets To Add To Your Blog’s Sidebar - The Edublogger
In this April 1st post, Waters lists useful widgets and points out a demo blog where most are in use. Then she provides instructions for adding them to a WordPress blog.
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Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter: 1396. Creativity Theories Relevant to Innovation
"This chapter summarizes the contributions of bedrock creativity theorists and the relevance of their main ideas to innovation. The chapter deals with two questions: 1. What are the creative processes used by creative people, and 2. What does a creative person look like." (Tom's Prof. extract, ¶3)
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APA Style Blog: When and How to Include Page Numbers in APA Style Citations
Explanations and examples of in-text citations
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Can we develop e-learning that respects adult learning principles? - DynaMind eLearning
"Most e-learning doesn’t adhere to Knowles’ adult learning principles. Collaborative and problem-based online workshops (or eWorkshops) provide us with ample more opportunities to abide by the principles than self-paced e-learning modules. It’s much harder to design eWorkshops well, but the depth achieved is much more satisfying. Respect for adult learning principles goes both ways"
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How languages evolve - Alex Gendler | TED-Ed
In the animated stimulus video for this TED-Ed lesson, "Alex Gendler explains how linguists group languages into language families, demonstrating how these linguistic trees give us crucial insights into the past" (Let's Begin, ¶1, 2015.03.31).
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In this Research Methods Knowledge Base article, William M.K. Trochime outlines "the basic steps in developing a Likert or 'Summative' scale" (¶1). He also provides an example of a 10-item, forced-choice instrument for measuring employees' self-esteem.
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This page provides brief explanations and an impressive menu of links to resources and tools for assessing and providing feedback to learners on technology-supported activities and projects. Categories include: Rubrics for Assessment - General Rubric Generators Assessing … Blogging Assessing Coding & Gaming Assessing Graphic Organizers Assessing Podcasts Assessing Technology & Social Media Assessing Video, Screencasting, and Digital Storytelling Projects Assessing Websites/Digital Portfolios Assessing Wikis
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Educational Malpractice – The Child Manufacturing Process | Creative by Nature
"[I]f the learner-centered model has proven itself to be so effective, and the high-stakes testing approach of the factory model has not, why is this model still dominant in many “leading” nations around the world? Why are so many business and government leaders in nations like the United States, Japan, Britain and Korea obsessed with test scores and international rankings? Are they not aware of the social consequences of this approach?" (¶10, 2015.03.30)
Monday, March 30, 2015
Speed tests for Internet connections
Hmm, not so fast today (2015.03.30) compared to last week (2015.03.24-26).
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
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King's College London - International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
"The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) is the first global centre for knowledge and leadership addressing the issues of radicalisation and political violence. It will produce world-class research and organise regular high-level meetings and outcome-driven dialogues on security issues" (¶1, 2015.03.28).
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What Sec. Duncan said about cross-cultural and language education in the U.S. may apply to other countries around the world as well.
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The United States is a country made up of many cultures—and we often celebrate that diversity. But just as often, we rely on the predominance of English as the language of global business and higher education when looking toward the world.
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We must improve language learning and international education at all levels if our nation is to continue to lead in the global economy; to help bring security and stability to the world; and to build stronger and more productive ties with our neighbors.
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6 Websites for Learning English Idioms | TESOL Blog
Shvidko, Elena. (2015, March 20). Six websites for learning English idioms [weblog post]. Retrieved from http://blog.tesol.org/6-websites-for-learning-english-idioms/
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English as lingua franca gives Singapore a fighting chance | Features | Malay Mail Online
This article recap's policies that made English a national language of education and made other official languages required second languages.
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Adopting the international language of business, diplomacy, and science and technology was about the only way this resource-less tiny island could guarantee its survival after losing its economic hinterland in Malaysia. Unemployment was at 14 per cent and rising.
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Just as importantly, picking this race-neutral language demonstrated his government’s anti-communalistic stance, helping to keep the peace in a newborn nation made up of a polyglot-settler populace who had struggled for years with racial and religious strife.
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For the sake of building “a community that feels together”, Lee pushed through the bilingualism policy in 1966. All students had to learn their “mother tongue”, Mandarin, Malay or Tamil, depending on their race, as a second language, and this became a compulsory and critical examination subject in 1969.
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But the various initiatives Lee rolled out in subsequent years to put proficiency in mother tongue on par with that in English were to divide opinions, especially among the Chinese, even up to the present. Indeed, he described bilingualism in 2004 as the “most difficult” policy he had had to implement.
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University teachers in Japan work under the shadow of a falling ax | The Japan Times
"Double the trouble: Universities last year won a special exemption from a law ostensibly aimed at boosting the ranks of the permanently employed. The law means companies are obliged to employ temporary workers as permanent employees after five years of continuous work on fixed-term contracts, if those workers request it. However, under the exemption, university teachers and researchers will have to toil an extra five years as temps before they can benefit from the law, starting from 2024. | ISTOCK "
Sunday, March 22, 2015
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About the Project | Global Freedom of Expression & Information @Columbia
"The purpose of Global Freedom of Expression & Information @Columbia (Global FoE&I @Columbia) is to advance understanding of, and promote, international norms and institutions that protect the free flow of information and expression in an inter-connected global community with major common challenges to face and address" (Objectives, ¶1, 2015.03.17).
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"The 'Climate Action Tracker' is an independent science-based assessment, which tracks the emission commitments and actions of countries. The website provides an up-to-date assessment of individual national pledges and currently implemented policy to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions" (deck, 2015.03.16).
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MultiBrief: The 4 C’s of 21st century learning for ELLs: Critical thinking
"This is the first article of a four-part series on teaching the four C's effectively to English learners: Critical thinking | Communication | Collaboration | Creativity" (deck, 2015.03.16).
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
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Essential Conditions (ISTE, 2015)
"The ISTE Essential Conditions are the 14 critical elements necessary to effectively leverage technology for learning" (Essential conditions, ¶1, 2015.03.12).
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"After extracting field of study vocabulary and scoring your text against a range of possible fields of study, the [Field Related? text analysis] system will provide links to glossaries and vocabulary learning activities to help you further your English Second Language learning."
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Books for children available online with narration in various languages
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What students think of their blended learning teachers | eSchool News | eSchool News
"A recent survey [in Australia] reveals that teacher training may impact student opinion in blended courses" (deck, 2015.03.11).
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How Do I Correctly Format a Copyright? | LegalZoom: Legal Info
Step by step instructions for notices on published and unpublished work.
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http://www.apa.org/pubs/authors/new-author-guide.pdf
"This guide provides an overview of the process of preparing and submitting a scholarly manuscript for publication in a psychology journal. Drawing on the experiences of authors of scholarly writings, peer reviewers, and journal editors, we seek to demystify the publication process and to offer advice designed to improve a manuscript’s prospects of publication. To exemplify the process, we describe specific publication procedures for journals of the American Psychological Association." (APA, 2010, p. 1)
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SAGE - the natural home for authors, editors and societies - Journal Gateway
This academic publisher's webpage covers "a number of resources available to support you through the writing and submission process" (How to get published: Writing your article for publication, ¶1, 2015.03.10). Resources include a brochure, a presentation, a two-part video, and a link to the publisher's entire catalog of journals for previews of submission guidelines.
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Elsevier for authors | Elsevier
"Publish in an Elsevier journal. The process step by step." Though this guide is publisher specific, the process reflects general practices in academic publishing.
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Presenting Without a Net - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"If you want to get published, you have to write in a way that makes people want to read. And if you want anyone—students, peers, legislators, donors—to listen to you, you have to speak to them, not read to them." (Toor, 02 March 2015, ¶23)
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Directory of Open Access Journals
"DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals" (deck, ¶1, 2015.03.09).
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Worst practice in ICT use in education | Edutech
"If adopting 'best practice' is fraught with difficulties, and 'good practice' often noted but ignored, perhaps it is useful instead to look at 'worst practice'. The good news is that, in the area of ICT use in education, there appears to be a good deal of agreement about what this is!" (Trucano, 2010, ¶2, retrieved 2015.03.09)
Sunday, March 08, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
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Peer Review Feedback Has Changed - Official WizIQ Teach Blog
For this blog post, Nellie Deutsch interviewed Steve Tuffill "to learn more about the history of peer review and how it has changed since its inception" (Peer review feedback has changed, ¶1, 2015.03.06).
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Center For Collaborative Action - home
"The Wikispace of The Center for Collaborative Action Research (CCAR)"
Sunday, March 01, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
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Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter: 1390. Guidelines for Inquiry-Based Project Work
This TP eNews... post featured an adopted and adapted rubric for group project work, "an inquiry-based project rubric that consists of eight dimensions." (Guidelines for Inquiry-Based Project Work, ¶2, 2015.02.17). Determining the extent and substance of adaptations noted in the except may require both access to the source of the except and the source of the original rubric.
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Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources, and Ideas | Edutopia
"[I]t can be a challenge to incorporate social media into lessons. There are many gray areas for teachers to navigate, like setting guidelines, accessibility at school, and student safety. But to help teachers navigate this ever-changing landscape of social media tools, here are some of the best guides on the web for four popular networks, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest" (¶2, 2015.02.23).
Friday, February 27, 2015
APA Style Blog: How to Create a Reference for a YouTube Video
APA Style Blog: How to Create a Reference for a YouTube Video (2011.10.27)
Stephanie. (2011, October 27). How to create a reference for a YouTube video [weblog post]. Retrieved from http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/10/how-to-create-a-reference-for-a-youtube-video.html
Sunday, February 22, 2015
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A thoughtful response previous postings in the newsletter.
- There are many gains to be had in online education because of the opportunities available in the electronic setting. Well-built courses require students to develop both academic and technical competencies. The issue of technical competency is especially important because student deficiencies in that area have been noted for years.
- It will be important for students to be able to demonstrate high levels of computer competency in the post-university world, no matter what careers they enter. If education is going to be relevant it will have to help them build the whole range of technical competencies they will need in life.
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Biography – RIEL, LOUIS (1844-85) – Volume XI (1881-1890) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Bio. from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Sunday, February 15, 2015
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Downes distinguished xMOOCs as content courses from cMOOCs as environments for learning that depends on "learner efficacy" (¶¶ 4 ff.) and both calls for and develops "critical literacies" (¶¶ 11 ff.).
- 'critical literacies'. These literacies encompass not only the skills related to comprehension and sense-making, but also the creative abilities that support criticism, construction and communication. And they go beyond this in addressing the dynamics of today's world. They include, at a minimum, the following: the ability to detect and define syntax, structure, patterns and similarities; the ability to identify and generate meaning, purpose and goal; the ability to sense and create context or environment; the ability to apply or use language, literacy and communication to accomplish tasks; the ability to support a conclusion, criticize an argument, offer an explanation or define a term; and an understanding of how to recognize, manage and create change. Or, in brief: syntax, semantics, context, use, cognition and change. (Downes, 2009)
- Choice, chance, diversity and interactivity are what support learning in neural nets, not simple and static content. Cognitive dissonance is what creates learning experiences. To learn is to be able to learn for oneself, not to learn what one is told; it is to be able to work despite cognitive overload, not to remain vulnerable to it.
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Sunday, February 01, 2015
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Being a Better Online Reader - The New Yorker
In this post, Konnikova provided a digest of research findings about reading across digital and printed media. Lots of links to explore!
- We read more efficiently when text is arranged in a single column rather than multiple columns or sections
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What Project-Based Learning Is — and What It Isn’t | MindShift
In this Jan. 2, 2013, post about teaching strategies, Schwartz differentiated project-_based_ learning from project-_oriented_, and provided half a dozen examples of the former.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
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Do I Need a Digital Teaching Portfolio? | Edutopia
"This post will help you decide whether or not a portfolio will serve your professional goals and how to go about designing a professional-looking site that showcases your teaching skills." (para. 1, 2015.01.24)
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What’s Up with QR Codes: Best Tools & Some Clever Ideas — Learning in Hand
Tony Vincent (2014.09.24)recommended code readers, a label printer, and code-making sites.
- My favorite app that scans QR codes continues to be i-nigma.
- I almost always create QR codes on a desktop or laptop computer.
- Creating on a computer in the first place eliminates the extra steps of having to transfer it.
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The Best Prezis of 2014 — Prezi Blog
Award-winning presentations followed by links to a reusable template (https://prezi.com/instant-reuse/bz_xa8hfiq4f/) plus tips on: Structuring presentations (http://blog.prezi.com/latest/2014/6/18/how-to-structure-your-presentation.html), Mastering zoom (http://blog.prezi.com/latest/2014/7/14/mastering-the-prezi-zoom.html), Using 3-D backgrounds (http://blog.prezi.com/latest/2014/6/11/4-ways-to-use-3d-backgrounds-in-prezi.html), and Adding voice-over (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNgWlMbczqY).
Sunday, January 11, 2015
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- separate "private" channels can be created by the group administrator
- Chat is not threaded in Slack
- the option to delete or edit a message
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PBL Pilot: Matching PBL With Traditional Grading | Edutopia
"Editor's Note: Matt Weyers and co-author Jen Dole, teachers at Byron Middle School in Byron, Minnesota, present the fifth installment in a year-long series documenting their experience of launching a PBL pilot program."
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Dr. Cook's Blog | 10 lessons from blogging everyday for a year (365:365)
I really like lesson number 8: "In order to be a better writer, you have to read! Many of my posts were inspired by something I read. I want to especially thank all of the other education bloggers out there sharing their knowledge!" I agree completely, and would like to thank Dr. Cook as well for providing just that sort of inspiration.
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- Chat is not threaded
- That sounds like a drag!
- The only differentiation between users is the avatar
- the content of attached files are also searchable. While the file hits are obvious in the search results, there's no way to know exactly where in the file, the term was found.
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Guide to Publication: How To Get Your Writing Published in Journals
Olson, Linda. (2014). Guide to academic and scientific publication: How to get your writing published in scholarly journals. London, England: e-academia. Retrieved from http://www.proof-reading-services.org/guide/
Sunday, December 28, 2014
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Impact of Social Sciences – Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts
This London School of Economics and Political Science blog post provides "a structured set of suggestions for what an abstract should include, and what should be kept to a small presence" (¶1, retrieved 2014.12.22).
Sunday, December 21, 2014
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"Patrick Dunleavy outlines seven upgrade strategies for a problematic article or chapter: Do one thing well. Flatten the structure. Say it once, say it right. Try paragraph re-planning. Make the motivation clearer. Strengthen the argument tokens. Improve the data and exhibits." (deck, 2014.12.19)
Sunday, December 07, 2014
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50+Ways - Finding Flickr Photos
Loaded with tips and tools for finding and attributing sources of Creative Commons images.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
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What is Listening Skill? – EnglishCentral: The Official Blog
"Developing strong listening skills in a second language can be difficult for students. In fact, teaching listening skills is a challenge for teachers, too. One reason for this is that the actual process of listening, or what we mean by “listening skill” is not very well understood. "
- What is Listening Skill?
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Purdue OWL: APA Formatting and Style Guide
- In APA Style, the Introduction section never gets a heading and headings are not indicated by letters or numbers.
- Headings, ¶3
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Sunday, November 23, 2014
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How to learn a new language: 7 secrets from TED Translators | TED Blog
Aparta, Krystian. (2014, November 4). How to learn a new language: 7 secrets from TED Translators [web blog post]. Retrieved from http://blog.ted.com/2014/11/04/how-to-learn-a-new-language-7-secrets-from-ted-translators/
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