My Samsung Galaxy Tab Home Screen Does it make me disloyal to my love for Apple? I love my MacBook Air,but I bought myself a Samsung Galaxy Tab. My friends say I’m betraying Mac,but here’s what I said to them: Well I do feel a little disloyal,but [...] Sometimes it quicker and/or more personal to send recorded audio messages. As a teacher,I’ve sent emails using audio apps on my iphone,but it takes a long time to send and it’s a bit tricky to add email addresses. Today I tried using the free,downloadable audio software,Audacity,and the free richly-featured web [...] Holiday Monday and I’m playing on the web. I’m scanning through my MakeUseOf.com subscription and decide to look at this –http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/technology-explained-how-the-internet-works/ I read this: Look at a map of the Internet sometime and you’ll see that it is like a million superhighways with no lines painted on the road. It’s a snake pit of [...] Photo by Tabea Dibou,from Flickr We can see more people creating more works than ever before in history. And it’s because of the web and because the web is social. On the web,much is possible. Whether you are finding the right beautiful photo (with the right Creative Commons license) to illustrate metaphorically [...] Not that I’m paranoid (or maybe I am but I like to call it cautious skepticism) but I am always aware than any of the free web services that I use,or even ones I’ve paid for,could go belly up and my stuff on it (them) could vanish into a black hole. So when [...] I like to play on the web,and my biggest problem is my “I-can’t-catch-up”anxiety. There is always more to explore. And for free,either for the basic version or for a month. I can never try everything out. I can’t catch up. Ever. I make things even more intense by following people who suggest [...] Live Tweeting vs Live Blogging WordCamp Toronto 2009 May 8,2009 At the Toronto WordCamp 2008,I live-blogged,and that was fun: http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/live-blogging-at-wordcamp-toronto-08/ http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/live-blogging-wordcam-day2/ At WordCamp Toronto,2009,I Tweeted using the hashtag #wct09,and that was fun,and more social for a couple of reasons. I was less focussed on getting every piece [...] The most fascinating thing about the web is that there is no end;there is always more and new. The most frustrating thing about the web is that there is no end;there is always more and new. Everything is always changeable. My website –jnthweb.ca –is not the same now as it was [...] We are living in confusing times because we are living through the biggest change in human communications since the printing press,maybe the biggest change ever. You can see this in the small changes that happen as we leave an old technology for a new. It is clear that newspapers and magazines,even tv,are [...] Will Richardson describes the way news is currently collected: [blip.tv ?posts_id=1691722&dest=-1] from his blog –http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/the-news-according-to-twitter/ Clay Shirky in Here Comes Everybody says journalism is losing ground as a profession,as it becomes an activity that anyone can practise,and this demonstrates his point. | I help with- Learning web basics,(email,search,browsing,etc.)
- Editing,Proofreading,and/or Composing Documents
- Speaking (Planning,Practising,PowerPoint etc.)
- Presenting with Impact
- Finding free web tools (audio,video,storage,etc.)
- Creating eNewsletters (with a web tool that isn't free)
- Researching using the web
- Social Bookmarking
- Setting up and using wikis
- Setting up simple websites
- Using Twitter Effectively
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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