Tag Archives: PLE

Playing with Posterous – Embedding (I hope) Two Jing Screencasts

Posted on August 22, 2009 by joanvinallcox

Here’s some information about Jing – a handy, free screencasting tool – View on screencast.com » Last summer I made a screencast describing my PLE, my Personal Learning Environment – View on screencast.com » http://jnthweb.ca/ http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/my-e-portfolio/ Posted via email from joanvinallcox’s posterous

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Why I Use More than One Social Bookmarking Service

Posted on July 30, 2009 by joanvinallcox

Not that I’m paranoid (or maybe I am but I like to call it cautious skepticism) but I am always aware than any of the free web services that I use, or even ones I’ve paid for, could go belly up and my stuff on it (them) could vanish into a black hole. So when View Post

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The Web is a Bottomless Toy Chest

Posted on July 29, 2009 by joanvinallcox

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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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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MERLOT Presentation on PLEs

Posted on August 5, 2008 by joanvinallcox

I head out tomorrow for the MERLOT International Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesoda where I will be presenting on Web2.0, the Social Media, and Academia: Using Personal Learning Environments to Expand Teaching and Learning.  (The description is second from the bottom here.) I am asking for some help in proving my point – that creating your View Post

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Jing (for Screencasting) and TweetDeck (for Twitter)

Posted on July 25, 2008 by joanvinallcox

Summertime is playtime, and we’ve had record amounts of rain where I live, so my playing has been indoors. Here are a couple of tools I’ve been playing with. Jing is a free and very easy screencasting tool. Because I’m thinking about Personal Learning Environments, that’s what I made this screencast on – http://www.screencast.com/users/JoanVinallCox/folders/MERLOT/media/15cb112a-af72-4d8a-a7c0-f41d42041696 My View Post

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Autodidacts and Web 2.0: Are Universities Still Needed, Part 2

Posted on June 14, 2008 by joanvinallcox

As I thought again about being an autodidact and what universities could do for learners, I realized that universities have been part of my Personal Learning Environment. (If you are an autodidact, you have to have your own PLE. For years mine only included books and other people. Now it includes bloggers, social bookmarking, the View Post

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Personalizing Web Access

Posted on June 6, 2008 by joanvinallcox

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 View Post

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