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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
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Sending Audio Feedback: Audacity and gMail
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 View Post
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Why gMail? Labels Not Folders
Labels in gMail Most email applications let you set up folders for storing messages you want to save. You have to decide what category your message fits into, if you want to keep it (but not in the Inbox), make sure you have a folder with that name, and store the message there. Then, when View Post
View PostThe Many Uses of Google Apps
I firmly believe that re-inventing the wheel (often done on the web) is superfluous, so when I find useful material, I don’t re-create it, I give credit and link to it. Richard Byrne at http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ has great, easy-to-understand information on what’s free on the web, aimed especially at teachers but useful for others too. One of View Post
View PostA Very Different Search Engine
Google is a good first place to search, but Wolfram Alpha goes places Google doesn’t, and you should add it to your searching strategy, especially if you’re a student, or engage in business transactions, or if you are just a curious person. Actually, Wolfram Alfa calls itself an “Answer Engine” and that is accurate. You View Post
View PostgMail Labs – and “Canned Responses”
Sending the Same Message with Small Changes When you want to send messages that are almost exactly the same to many people, but you want to make small changes, you could copy & paste and alter and send to individuals. Or you could use the Google Labs feature, Canned Responses. Google Labs is found by clicking View Post
View PostHow We Research and Draft Now
The web has radically changed how we research and plan and draft our writing. It’s happened over 20 years so we haven’t always noticed just how immense the change has been. From a time when libraries and pads of rough yellow newsprint paper were what was needed to start writing till now, where Google, a View Post
View PostGoogle’s Free Calendar
Google Calendar is a very handy free tool, and very easy to set up and use. As I mentioned in my previous post, it’s easy to find information on how to use web tools. Here is a link on setting up your own Google Calendar: http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/about.html Once you get used to it, you’ll find it View Post
View PostGoogle, a Many-Splendored Freebie
The Web and Gmail
My parents are in their late eighties, and yesterday, in an email he copied me on, my father told friends how much he enjoyed Skyping with them the previous day. I have heard of people getting computers simply to have e-mail and the family photos that can be attached to email messages. Almost everyone is View Post
View PostSecond Last Class – Seeing Early Results
I’ve been teaching a course called Oral Rhetoric, a course where I work with students on their public speaking, both in face-to-face situations and in creating online audio recordings. Yesterday was the second last class and we spent most of the class time listening to their second last assignment, a commercial/pitch to advertise their final View Post
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