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The Voice and the Realities 2007 profile and index
Part-time University Teachers 2007 -The Voice and the RealitiesConditions of Part-time University Lecturers Survey Result (2005-6)
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Tyler Sticka: WordPress-Powered Portfolios « WordPress.tv
Sticka suggests differentiating blog-only items (posts) from portfolio content consisting of posts, gallery items, and thumbnails chosen to represent your best work; explains custom meta-fields and themes (tn & gallery) and php to create templates for them using built-in pagination; mentions putting this presentation on his blog (http://tylersticka.com)
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Using Google Forms | LearnCentral
Eaton, Sarah. (2011.02.11). Using Google forms [webinar].
"Learn how to use Google forms and embed them on your website or use them in your own e-learning presentations. ... You can also download the manual that was given out here." (Detaile[ed] Description). -
The Innovative Educator: 10 Ways Technology Supports 21st Century Learners in Being Self Directed
Thanks to Maggie for pointing out this post urging us to "begin supporting students using tools and strategies available to the 21st century learner" (10 Ways ..., ¶1) to the Classroom 2.0 group.
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Lily Puff Designs: Tutorial: "How to revert back the Minima/Minima Stretch Templates"
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3 Reasons Why Students Should Be Using Dropbox
"The best part about Dropbox as a collaborative tool, is that two people can edit the same file simultaneously. In that situation, Dropbox saves two distinct copies of the same files, each with a person’s edits to ensure that both edits are preserved" (3. Be Smarter About Collaborating On Projects, ¶3, 2011.02.23).
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Tuesday's Tech Tip 02/15/11 - Technology Integration
Thanks to Allison for pointing out this "short screen cast explaining how to separate or merge PDF files with Preview" (Technology Integration) in the EdTechTalk group.
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Arab Democracy Reference and Live Feeds - Home / Map
"news and reference site on the protests and activities in the Middle East" (Steve Hargadon, personal correspondence, Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 01:33(
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Rewriting research / Special report: Social academia / Special Reports / Home - Broker
Ward, Janelle. (2009). Rewriting research. The Broker 15, 12-18. Retrieved February 21, 2011, from http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/en/Special-Reports/Special-report-Social-academia/Rewriting-research
Source of recast: Online Collaborative Writing: How Blogs And Wikis Are Changing The Academic Publishing Process
Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/online-collaborative-writing-how-blogs-and-wikis-are-changing-the-academic-publishing-process/- Above all, to be successful, a wiki needs constant maintenance. ‘Group buy-in’ and ‘collective adoption’ are essential, which means that all members of the group must share an enthusiasm to make regular contributions.
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Above all, to be successful, a wiki needs constant maintenance. ‘Group buy-in’ and ‘collective adoption’ are essential, which means that all members of the group must share an enthusiasm to make regular contributions.
In contrast with academic blogs, where the identity of the main contributor is clear, wikis tend to downplay individual identity in favour of the group. They also feature research that often places equal value on academic and non-academic perspectives.
- Proponents of wikis argue that such collaboration has the potential to ensure that the quality of research is higher than that produced by individual scholars. But in an academic setting this will happen only if Surowiecki’s collaboration and cooperation problems are resolved.
- The most important requirement for a successful collaborative writing project via a wiki is that all those involved must be motivated to contribute.
- Although it is difficult to argue that the quality of publications is actually improved through blogging or online collaborative writing, evidence from various scholars does suggest that this is a possibility.
- Perhaps we are witnessing the start of an era of separation between what could become two realms of research. One is the realm of traditional ‘pure’ research where, independent of technologies like the internet, the goal is to achieve scientific discoveries that may eventually trickle down to the outside world. In the other, a realm that is much more closely focused on society and policy, practitioners communicate directly, and in real time, with that outside world.
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Online Collaborative Writing: How Blogs And Wikis Are Changing The Academic Publishing Process
"Originally written by Janelle Ward for The Broker, and first published on August 5th, 2009 as Rewriting Research" (footnote [URL revised, PB, 2011.02.21]), this article covers the following topics:
Academic Blogging
Blog Types and Purposes
Who Are Academic Bloggers
Blogging Rewards
Collaborative Writing and Wikis
Pros and Cons of Using Wikis
Wikis['] Effectiveness
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RoundPic - rounded corners for avatars and images [web 2.0 style]
"Online tool for making anti-aliased rounded corners ... for avatars and images"
Sunday, February 27, 2011
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
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Educating for Global Citizenship Home - Educating for Global Citizenship
A "wetpaint wiki created to allow students and teachers from around the world to share their experience about what makes safe and peaceful schools" (Purpose of wiki)
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Introduces free service, points out FAQs and tutorials, users' discussion space, and lesson plan database
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Report: Blended learning could hit or miss | Policy | eSchoolNews.com
Covers "'The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning,' by Michael B. Horn, co-founder and executive director of education at the Innosight Institute, and Heather Clayton Staker, a senior research fellow for education practice at the institute, [which] describes how blended learning can affect education, but why it also could fall short of its potential" (¶3).
- According to the report, blended learning, which it defines as “any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace,” has grown exponentially over the past decade.
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Yakushima - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Well-rounded overview with links to NHK media and World Heritage Forest Programme activities
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Yakushima travel guide - Wikitravel
- part of a museum complex at the base of the road leading to Yakusugiland and the Arakawa trail to Jomon sugi
- A short walk away is the World Heritage Conservation Center
- the steep trail to and from Jomon sugi does not go through the most impressive forest on the island. To see the silent, mossy, primeval forest pictured in the tourist brochures, the better destination is the Shiratani Unsuikyo forest, and it doesn't require an early start and hours of tough hiking to get there
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"[L]anguage education policy [in Korea] needs greater coordination so that it can effectively promote individual development and the national interest" (¶1).
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"a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics"
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How to Use Google Documents: Video Series | eHow Videos
"Learn how to use Google documents to organize personal and business documents and spreadsheets ..." (You are viewing an eHow Video Series, ¶1).
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"timesaving educational resources that use technology to improve instruction across all content areas and grade levels" (4Teachers Family of Tools, ¶1)
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Text 2 Mind Map - The text-to-mind-map converter
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University Guide to Going Google
"This site contains tools and guidelines to use as a starting point to getting your students, faculty, and alumni ready and excited about Google Apps" (University Edition, ¶1). There is a counter-part, K-12 Edition.
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"EmbedPlus lets you easily upgrade video embeds with enhanced playback and relevant content" (banner, 2011.02.16).
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"This web page is for people interested in learning the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols. This is a useful skill for learners and teachers of English who may want to check the pronunciation of a word in a dictionary. Use the phonetic chart to learn the sounds of English. Then do a quiz to see how well you have learnt them" (The Phonetic Chart, ¶1).
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Reverse Outlines | Explorations of Style: A Blog about Academic Writing
First post on one of "five key strategies for improving academic writing" (¶1).
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Wayne Mackintosh on an Open Educational Resources University | LearnCentral
A LearnCentral "webinar with Wayne Mackintosh on designing an "Open Educational Resources" (OER) university and creating free learning for all students worldwide" (Event Details, Detail[ed] Description, ¶1).
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Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - Open Educational Resources
"The [OECD's OER] project analyses and maps the scale and scope of initiatives regarding “open educational resources” (OER) in terms of their purpose, content, and funding" (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - Open Educational Resources, ¶2).
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Online Education Database - Online Colleges and Universities | OEDb
"OEDb currently contains reviews of 1,025 programs from 83 accredited online colleges. Unlike other leading online education directories, our database only lists accredited online colleges ..." (Welcome to the Online Education Database, ¶1).
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"TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.... It is free for non-commercial searching" (home page, 2011.02.14), and there is a Firefox plug-in (Introducing TinEye [video]).
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Nordic River: TextFlow Redliner
"a cloud based document comparison and redlining tool making it easier to share, delegate and collaborate" (Document comparison in the cloud, ¶1, 2010.02.14)
Sunday, February 06, 2011
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Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - Writing Effective E-Mail - Paragraphing
Provides rationales and tips for paragraph formation in mail messages to make them reader-friendly
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For learners of English, sports posts in various categories: adjectives, grammatical expression[s], grammatical word[s], idioms, phrasal verbs, and the difference[s] between words (Categories, 2011.02.02)
Sunday, January 30, 2011
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Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - Writing Effective E-Mail: Transmittal Organization
"A transmittal e-mail introduces a forwarded e-mail or an attachment that is too long or complex to send as an e-mail (¶1).
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Science Links Japan | Journal of Multimedia Aided Education Research
Journal of Multimedia Aided Education Research (2006)
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Hoekstra and Korthagen's "longitudinal mixed-method study ... findings suggest that professional learning will take place only if a teacher is supported in learning how to deal effectively with personal factors involved in the learning process" (abstract, ¶).
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Wissahickon School District's eToolBox - home
"an alphabetical index of Web 2.0 tools, from Blogs to Wikispaces, with evaluations and recommendations for each one." (Carole, Wikispaces Blog, Best Educational Wikis of 2010, 2011.01.17 [retreived 2011.01.28])
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Thanks to Yuly for pointing out this powerful toolkit allowing wildcard searches and including a reverse dictionary. OneLook contains "19,044,271 words in 1062 dictionaries indexed" (home page, bottom line, 2011.01.28). It sub-divides long lists of hits into categories: "General, Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Tech, [and] Phrases."
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BBC News - The top 100 sites on the internet
One of four tabs in the SuperPower: Visualizing the internet collection, including: The top 100, ..., Net growth, & How it works
Sunday, January 23, 2011
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Introduces a second video in Tim Murphey's Japanese student voices series (RealVoice2), explains problems arising from rising tuition costs for students going overseas, and links to various related articles.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
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Describes rubrics and their use for formative assessment, lists common features and numerous advantages, and links to K-2 and 3-5 age-group examples, as well as templates and online generators for rubric production.
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WebSlides - Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows…
Overview, video intro., and examples
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About Skype in the classroom | Skype Education
"Skype in the classroom is a free online directory for teachers everywhere who want to use Skype to bring education to life" (retrieved 2011.01.13).
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HOW TO: Back Up Your Social Media Presence Before the Ball Drops
Explains and illustrates, among other data conservation strategies, how to export posts, pages, and comments from WordPress, and suggests a simple way to download photos, but not sets, tags, or titles from Flickr.
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This tutorial explains and illustrates what rubrics are, ways they can be used, and how to develop them.
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Claims to be "one of the most extensive teacher resources for rubrics on the Internet" (¶1, 2011.01.13); largely for K-12 educators
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Blogging Journeys (part 3 of 3) - Glenn's posterous
A must view and listen site for teachers interested in edublogging, esp. slides 13ff.
Sunday, January 09, 2011
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Do Your Part: Spread the “Go Green” Message - Everything TypePad
Explains how to add green badges to various types of blogs, including now defunct Vox blogs
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Uploading image files with text to Google Docs : Uploading and exporting - Google Docs Help
Explains automated optical character recognition as it applies to image files uploaded to Google Docs
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The Case for the Virtual Classroom
Cites meta-analysis suggesting that online learners marginally out-perform face-to-face learners (1. Online Education "Doesn't Have to Suck", ¶4), and that learners from blended learning environments out-perform the lot (6. The Virtual Classroom Can Make the Physical Classroom More Effective, ¶2).
- According to the U.S. Department of Education
- students who studied in online learning environments performed modestly better than peers who were receiving face-to-face instruction
- maintaining a low student-to-teacher ratio and paying for technology means that
- the cost to the university won’t be drastically reduced
- online learning can make classroom time more effective
- The modest difference in performance between online and physical classroom learners in the meta-analysis, for instance, was larger for those students who learned through a blend of online and physical classroom conditions.
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CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers
Although this entire document focuses on N. American higher education settings (Part One, ¶1), Part Two: Guidelines for Writing and Writing-Intensive Courses will interest and hopefully inform administrators, course designers, program planners, and teachers working in other regional and perhaps even global contexts as well. Part two covers: Class Size, Assignment Design, Assessment, Textual Borrowing, Teacher Preparation, and resource provisions. Part Four: Guidelines for Teacher Preparedness will interest those involved in teacher education, or pre- and in-service teacher development. Part Six comprises an extensive bibliography for further reading.
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Lists eight (8) suggestions to help you avoid sequential organizational faults when writing instructions or presenting other information "where sequence is important" (Sequential Order, ¶1). Of particular interest are front-loading (step 1-2) and using repetition instead of back or cross-references (step 8).
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Covers "bad news" organization; includes Guide for Refusing a Request and suggests ending on a positive note.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Skill sets, passion, and imagination – "liberalizing education"
There is considerable evidence that many employers want graduates with particular skills such as accounting, but the vast majority of employers want employees with a broad set of skills, and abilities, more emphasis on effective oral and written communication, critical thinking and reasoning in multiple settings, and the ability to be imaginative across cultural boundaries.At the same time, increasing numbers of students say they want to develop a “meaningful philosophy of life,” not just be “well-off financially.” They want to pursue with passion a path that leads to personal satisfaction and fulfillment as well as material comfort. In other words, they want a course of study that combines what employers want and what they want.
It seems to me, without yet having laid eyes on the actual story by Scott, that a short answer to the question, "Are we there yet?" might be for some students, sometimes, somewhat.(extended abstract, ¶¶ 10-11)
Scott, Robert A. (2010). The modern American university: a love story. On the Horizon 18(4), 294 - 307. doi:10.1108/10748121011082608
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Sunday, December 26, 2010
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Catalysing collaborative initiatives in computer-supported collaborative learning
"a case study and formative evaluation..."
Sunday, December 19, 2010
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Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American
"Several principles are key to assuring that the Web becomes ever more valuable. The primary design principle underlying the Web’s usefulness and growth is universality" Universality is the Foundation, para. 1).
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Robert Slavin | IEE | University of York
"Leading educational psychologist Robert Slavin is a Professor in the IEE" (Biography, ¶1, retriieved 2010.12.14 [page updated 2010.11.11]). This page lists selected publications and presentations.
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Covers why and how to make an outline
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TeachPaperless: Why Teachers Should Blog
"There is no substantial qualitative definition of a blog. Blogs, or rather blogging platforms, just exist. The quality or essence of a blog is given meaning only via what the author does with the blog and how the blog is responded to" (¶4, retrieved 2010.12.13).
Sunday, December 12, 2010
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TESOL Connections: A Sequence of Critical Thinking Task
"This article [by John Beaumont] is from Volume 1, Issue 4 of TESOL Journal" (TESOL Connections [website], Features, December 2010).
- Scriven and Paul begin to define critical thinking as ‘‘the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action’’ (quoted in Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2009, para. 2).
- Bloom (1956) offered one of the first comprehensive elaborations of these important skills. Since the conception of Bloom’s Taxonomy, his colleagues (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001) have carried on his work and developed a two-dimensional taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing student learning outcomes. The Knowledge Dimension identifies four types of knowledge: factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive. The second aspect of Bloom’s Taxonomy, the Cognitive Process Dimension, outlines six ways of thinking (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create) and their many subprocesses.
- For the purposes of this article, critical thinking is defined as the practice and development of an active, conscious, purposeful awareness of what one encounters both in the classroom and in the outside world. It is a kind of thinking and learning that demands an investment in personal and communal learning on the part of the student and teacher. Critical thinking does not discount the emotional or gut responses that everyone has. Rather, it complements and enters into dialogue with them so that reasoned judgments are possible.
- Observing is the basic starting point of the sequence—so basic, in fact, that some teachers may not immediately consider it to be critical thinking at all. However, observing is critical thinking because it involves a fundamental level of analysis.
- To read the rest of the article, download the PDF
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SCoPE: Seminars: Definitions of Motivation - What does motivation mean to you?
URLs for optional course readings on metacognition shared by Roxanne (2010.12.03)
Thursday, December 09, 2010
RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
BR 2-19: Wuthering Heights
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BR 2-18: Wild America
BR 2-17: Wild America by Teresa Cox
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In this book there were lots of surprises. The most surprising bit of information about the U.S. was that there are literally hundreds of "national parks, national seashores, national forests, and [national] recreation areas" (Cox, 1990, p. 4). I've seen some of them already. I really want to go and see more of them soon!
Cox, Teresa. (1990). Wild America. Harlow, Essex: Longman Group UK.
BR 2-16: Emile Bronte's Wuthering Heights
My favorite line in the book is when Heathcliff says, "I have to remind myself to breathe – almost remind my heart to beat!" (Bronte, 1989, p. 65). It reminds me how strongly our thoughts can influence our bodies.
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Sunday, December 05, 2010
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"Peruse the pages of this website to learn about the concept of motivational design, the theoretical foundation of the ARCS model, the systematic motivational design process, examples of ARCS-related research areas, and a few of the places and people associated with ARCS-related studies and practices" (ARCS Categories, Long Term and Immediate Goals, ¶2, retrieved 2010.12.03).
Sunday, November 28, 2010
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PHRAS.IN - Say this or say that?
Thanks to Nik for pointing this out in Get Students Checking Grammar and Collocation (Nik's Quick Shout, 2010.11.25).
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44th Annual International IATEFL Conference Plenary: Intro., audio and two-part video
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eLearn: Opinions - The Rise and Fall of 'e'
"In the information age, learning is not about acquiring and remembering knowledge; rather, it's about the skill of knowing where and how to access that knowledge as it becomes appropriate" (¶9, retrieved 2010.11.25).
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17 Online Meeting Tools That Facilitate Collaboration
"Here are a few tools you may want to consider, some of their notable features and the cost for using them" (¶2, 2010.11.24).
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
