Category Archives: Styles

A Little Learning is …

Posted on March 15, 2009 by joanvinallcox

a dang’rous thing”, at least according to Alexander Pope. He declared that we should “Drink deep or taste not the Pierian Spring.” I, however, think a little learning is a wondrous thing; it can addict you to drinking deep at the Pierian Spring, that is, at wanting to know more and how to do more. View Post

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iShowU, Bliptv, & Tables of Content in Word

Posted on March 15, 2008 by joanvinallcox

I have just had a fun couple of hours making and uploading my first screencast, just under 5 minutes long. You can see the results here: I have found many people don’t know how to use Styles in MSWord, and many other word-processing applications, to automatically generate a Table of Contents. I think this is View Post

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Using Styles for Academic Papers, & Zotero for Research

Posted on January 1, 2008 by joanvinallcox

Writing essays, papers, dissertations and other academic pieces is (or should be) radically changed by two tools: the Styles tool in word-processing; Zotero, the Firefox researching tool. Teachers who have your students research and write, take note: your students need to learn how to use these tools, consequently so do you;-> There’s an article on View Post

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