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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
Tag Archives: teaching
gMail – Useful Features
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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Posted in blogging, communication, email, gmail, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged email, Gmail, teaching, web tools
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The 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 PostTeaching in the 21st Century
Here’s why I love the web. I found the video embedded below on Twitter, with a mention in the post of Ignatia, a woman whose knowledge and sharing I have respected for years - http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/2010/04/meaningful-and-powerful-learning-how-to.html. I think the video is beautifully designed and presented, and it’s what I believe about teaching for today. I hope you 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
View PostAn Autodidact is Social
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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Posted in howto, learning, learning 2.0, PLE, technology, Uncategorized, web2.0, webtools
Tagged learning, teaching, webtools, WordPress, WorkLiteracy
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A Little Learning is …
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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Posted in blogging, howto, learning, learning 2.0, social_web, Styles
Tagged Facebook, learning, teaching, Twitter, word-processing, WordPress, WorkLiteracy
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Kluging: An LMS Alternative
I confess I’m ambivalent about Learning Management Systems such as WebCT ad Desire2Learn. (I’m not at all ambivalent about Content Management Systems, such as WordPress – I am an enthusiastic user.) The distinction is that an LMS is a container for class work – Learning Management System is a broad term used for a wide View Post
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Posted in communication, education, learning, technology, web2.0, webtools
Tagged Desire2Learn, Eduspaces, Pageflakes, PBwiki, teaching, WebCT, WorkLiteracy
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Teaching Communication Now!
As a longtime communications teacher, I am fascinated by our changing communications media and platform. And when I’m teaching, no matter the direct subject I’m teaching, I never lose awareness of the changes our culture is going through, and the responsibility of teachers to help prepare our students for this new and rapidly evolving communications View Post
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Posted in communication, education, learning, technology, video, web2.0, webtools
Tagged communication, multimedia, recording, teaching, video, web
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For Teachers to Pay Attention To
I have two questions related to this video: What do you think of the message? What do you think of how it’s presented?
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Posted in communication, e-learning, education, learning 2.0, technology, video, web2.0
Tagged teaching, web2.0, YouTube
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The Audience Shapes the Speaker
Last Wednesday, I presented to a group of university teachers in the morning, and then took a shuttle bus out to another campus to teach my first class this term. The experience reminded me of something all experienced teachers come to recognize – the audience shapes the speaker. My first regular teaching job was teaching View Post
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