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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: reading_online
SparkNotes Comes To Android, Makes Studying Literature A Little Bit Less Boring
http://www.scoop.it/t/the-history-and-future-of-reading/p/1554377933/sparknotes-comes-to-android-makes-studying-literature-a-little-bit-less-boring’ Back in 1999, a site called The Spark that aimed to help its users better understand literature hit the internet.
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Rise in E-Book Readership Is Good News for Reading Over All, Report Says – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
PEW research has found – “Readers of e-books like to read in all formats, they favor print books for sharing and to read to children, and on average they read more books over all than print-only readers do.” – http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/rise-in-e-book-readership-good-news-for-reading-over-all-report-says/35955′
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Why reading feeds our brain
Fascinating information on how neuroscience sees our reading - http://printontheperiphery.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/why-reading-feeds-our-brain/
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Go feds! E-books are way overpriced
Now you can know why some e-books cost more than their paperback versions!
View Postelearn Magazine: Moving From Paper to E-Book Reading
March 6, 2012 “Reading in the digital world has both similarities and differences from reading on paper. Books as tangible objects elicit powerful responses linked to the pleasures felt in reading them. Although our eyes scan differently when reading online, reading e-versions of books initially seems similar to reading on paper. However digital books have View Post
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My Samsung Galaxy Tab
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 I’ve always been deeply fond of Google, and the Tab has View Post
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Posted in communication, computers, email, gmail, Internet_use, Macs, reading_online, social media, social_web, technology, Twitter, webtools
Tagged Android, calendar, cloud, email, GalaxyTab, Gmail, Google, Tablet, Twitter
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The Web is a Bottomless Toy Chest
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 View Post
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Posted in communication, e-learning, howto, Internet_use, Jane_Hart, learning, PLE, reading_online, Steve_Rubel, tips, Top10Tools, webtools
Tagged communication, learning, PLE
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An Autodidact Learns From the Web
An autodidact is someone who learns outside of regular school settings, someone who teaches herself (or himself). It used to be a kind of demeaning label, meaning someone who had spotty and uncertified knowledge. I claim the label “autodidact” as a badge of honour! I used to learn from books, even sometimes from tv, but View Post
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Posted in blogging, communication, howto, learning, PLE, reading_online, technology, Uncategorized, webtools
Tagged communication, CSS, HTML, learning, PLE, webdesign, webtools, Work Literacy
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Newspapers and Web Design
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 View Post
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Posted in business, communication, digital economy, Downes, Internet_use, organizing_information, reading_online, web2.0
Tagged communication, McLuhan, newspapers, Stephen_Downes
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