If it’s this big …
From a slideshow by Jerome Sudan
the education community should be taking notice!
I confess I know almost nothing about gaming, but I suspect it will be (should be) deeply important to education. As a student, I used historical fiction to help me learn history, and it worked. [...]
Spoiler Alert: If you are my father or someone who knows my parents – stop reading now! You can read this after Christmas.
I’ve slowly become aware of the existence of photo books, but for a long time saw them as an oddity, and kind of egocentric. But eventually, after seeing some well-made ones of [...]
Sometimes a bunch of experiences mash together and inspiration results. A couple of day ago I received a comment on one of my posts – #2 by Virginia Yonkers where she said “Try working on another’s computer! Just as we have idiosyncrasies in the speech, how we do math, writing (think of handwriting), we develop [...]
This video by Loic Lemeur is intimidating, inspiring and irritating.
Intimidating because he has such wide ranging use of the social media; Inspiring because I get some idea what I want to spend more time with; and Irritating because it pauses every few seconds and you have to wait for it to go on.
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People decide about what to read, on paper or on the web, before they de-code a single word. If the page looks dense and/or difficult, readers, unless they are highly motivated, will just move on. When people learn to write or to create a web page, they should, IMHO, learn about readability as the same [...]
The web is a constantly changing space, and many people are afraid to dip their toes in the web stream for fear of being stung by a digital stingray. And rightfully so. In my experience, weaving through through the email flow, are false warnings and ugly offerings, fraudulent phishers, and identity thieves. The web is [...]
Recently I posted a comment on a blog and checked off the little box that okays email notification every time a comment is added. The blog post is on Will Richardson’s Weblog-ed: learning with the read/write web and it is an urgent call for educators, aka teachers, to get more knowledgable about the web and [...]
I’m Canadian, and I’m pleasantly surprised to see the Canadian stats and apps:
from the Read/Write Web:
Canadians use the Internet more than anyone in the world. According to comScore, Canadians spend on average 39.6 hours per month on the Internet, followed by Israel at 37.4 and South Korea at 34, while the USA is [...]
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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