Category Archives: technology

gMail – Useful Features

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Joan Vinall-Cox

gMail is my favorite mail application, as I have blogged about here previously: http://jnthweb.ca/2010/08/gmail-other-email-addresses/ http://jnthweb.ca/2010/08/why-gmail-labels-not-folders/ There are other reasons in other posts, but here is an excellent succinct list of why and how gmail is useful: http://www.thethinkingstick.com/5-gmail-tips-for-teachers

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My Samsung Galaxy Tab

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Joan Vinall-Cox

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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The Web is a Creativity Generator generating a Culture of Creativity

Posted on July 31, 2009 by joanvinallcox

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 the View Post

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Styles in MS Word – A Jing Video

Posted on July 2, 2009 by joanvinallcox

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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WordCamp Toronto 2009

Posted on May 11, 2009 by joanvinallcox

Live Tweeting vs Live Blogging 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 of wisdom and could relate more f2f View Post

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An Autodidact is Social

Posted on April 14, 2009 by joanvinallcox

Seems like a contradiction in terms, but autodidacts are social; we have to be. When I learn from the web, I access websites, support people, books, friends, and the wonderfully generous denizens of the web. I’ve spent much time over the last couple of weeks trying to get on top of creating the website I View Post

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An Autodidact Learns From the Web

Posted on March 27, 2009 by joanvinallcox

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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News & Celebrity Now

Posted on February 17, 2009 by joanvinallcox

Will Richardson describes the way news is currently collected: 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.

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From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able by Wesch

Posted on January 9, 2009 by joanvinallcox

Michael Wesch is a pedagogical hero of mine. I’ve watched videos his classes made; I’ve watched a video of him explaining his teaching, and I asked a question on Twitter, and even though he doesn’t follow me, got an anwser from him within a few hours! He understands the impact of the new communication ecosphere View Post

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Photobook Adventures (and advice)

Posted on December 13, 2008 by joanvinallcox

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 View Post

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