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Joan works and plays on the web and is happy to speak to groups or individuals about the web's communication possibilities
Category Archives: education
Reading Content; Content Reading
All learning is contextual, in my opinion. You have to already know some aspect in order to learn more. I remember my Psych 101 prof, many, many years ago, saying that any book with more than 10% new content would be unreadable. So this video, found through krea_frobro747 on Twitter, appeals to me because it View Post
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Styles in MS Word – A Jing Video
I’m attending the PBWorks Camp for teachers, and this is my homework for my second week, a screencast made using Jing on how Styles in MS Word can help in writing long pieces such as academic papers or business reports: 2009-07-02_1211 I re-did this a number of times, dealing with – fitting what I wanted View Post
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Tagged business, communication, education, Jing, learning, wiki, Word, word-processing, WorkLiteracy
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WebTools For Teachers 02/24/2009
Internet Archive: Details: Communications Primer, A Fascinating and well worth the time for a number of reasons: 1. The information about communications, including art & symbol, is still relevant & instructive. 2. It was made in 1953 and the image quality, language use, vocal tonalities, and pacing are anthropologically fascinating. via Stephen Downes & Alec View Post
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WebTools For Teachers 02/20/2009
The Crisis of Credit Visualized Clear, interesting, visual explanation of the credit crisis. Good information AND a gret example of the power of visual communication. via mwesch on Twitter tags: crisis, Economics, visualized TinyChat.com – Create a free chatroom This could be useful for group-work. tags: chat, chatroom, socialnetworking, collaboration Posted from Diigo. The rest View Post
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WebTools For Teachers 02/18/2009
apophenia danah boyd is one of the best academic researchers “about social media, social software, social networks and other industry-relevant topics”. Here is a list of links, a “best of” to highlight the essays that are most interesting to newcomers interested in social media. Right now, these are just recent essays and blog posts that View Post
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WebTools For Teachers 02/17/2009
Research Study on Ubiquitous Learning (uLearning) | Workplace Learning Today Concept map says it all (or at least alerts you to where you can learn more). tags: learning, edtech, education, research, ed_thesis Digitally Global « doug – off the record Part of digital literacy that students (and any user) need to know is how persistent View Post
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WebTools For Teachers 02/12/2009
Articles – Capturing audio for video | iStockphoto.com Audio for video projects. Via Donna Papacosta on Twitter tags: WRI330, audio_recording, audio Royalty Free Music & Audio: Search Stock Samples, Loops & Tracks | iStockphoto.com Resources for student projects. via Donna Papacosta on Twitter tags: WRI330, audio_recording, audio Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite View Post
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WebTools For Teachers 02/11/2009
Bridging Differences: Why Are People So Gullible About Miracle Cures in Education? “The quest for the mythical great teacher—the one we must stalk like some rare beast of unsurpassed beauty—is tinged with contempt for the large majority of teachers” via Stephen Downes tags: teachers Learnlets » Slow Learning I had a conversation yesterday with another View Post
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WebTools For Teachers 02/07/2009
YouTube – Networked StudentQT.mp4 Where education is (should be) going – learning how to use the web as the ultimate educational resource! (I’m not forgetting or ignoring books – guess where I find and buy many of mine!) via Alec Couros tags: netpedagogy, networking, connectivism LIFE photo archive hosted by Google A history of photography View Post
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