My Samsung Galaxy Tab Home Screen 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 [...] 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 [...] I use Twitter to collect ideas and know-how on using the web in teaching,especially the Thursday night #lrnchats –they’re fun. Recently a former student asked me about whether I was using Twitter in my teaching. I had just discovered some of the benefits and pleasures of following and being followed by students. Here’s [...] When I started on Twitter,in January 2008,I added many ‘friends’I was already following in other social media,and some of my fellow freelancers from the Halton-Peel Communicators Association. My social media friends I had discovered from blogging on Elgg (now Eduspaces),a network aimed at academics studying education and learning. I browsed [...] I’ve used a number of applications to play on Twitter. Currently I’m using Seesmic on the web. Here’s why: I like being able to keep Twitter open on a tab. I can do that with the original Twitter,but Seesmic lets me have multiple threads open,and Twitter doesn’t. Tweet Deck lets me keep [...] I’m ambivalent about my title because I use Twitter mainly for learning,communication,and entertainment. I recognize,however,that business is becoming increasingly a part of Twitter. I recently posted a picture on TwitPic … Like a Liberty Print and commented that it reminded me of a Liberty print. (I have fond memories of [...] The most fascinating thing about the web is that there is no end;there is always more and new. The most frustrating thing about the web is that there is no end;there is always more and new. Everything is always changeable. My website –jnthweb.ca –is not the same now as it was [...] Want to more about how Twitter works and what it’s good for? Check out http://www.fastforwardblog.com/guides/twitter/ The FastForward Blog Guide to Twitter 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. [...] My Twittermates –via Jane Hart - Get your twitter mosaic here. [...] | I help with- Learning web basics,(email,search,browsing,etc.)
- Editing,Proofreading,and/or Composing Documents
- Speaking (Planning,Practising,PowerPoint etc.)
- Presenting with Impact
- Finding free web tools (audio,video,storage,etc.)
- Creating eNewsletters (with a web tool that isn't free)
- Researching using the web
- Social Bookmarking
- Setting up and using wikis
- Setting up simple websites
- Using Twitter Effectively
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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