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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: web2.0
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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MERLOT 2008, Web 2.0, Part 2
I’m home again from the MERLOT Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and found it exciting for a number of reasons, especially as it was the first academic conference I’ve ever attended that had a strong focus on the importance of web 2.0 for teaching and learning. I think the MERLOT members are ahead of many other View Post
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Posted in communication, e-learning, education, learning, learning 2.0, technology, tips, web2.0, webtools
Tagged eLearning, MERLOT08, MERLOTvoices, MIC08, PowerPoint, web2.0, WorkLiteracy
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MERLOT 2008 – Web 2.0
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is an interesting organization, made up of people from a variety of disciplines, focused largely on distance learning. It is the first academic conference I have attended with a strong focus on the use of Web 2.0 in teaching – something I’ve been looking for. So View Post
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Posted in communication, e-learning, education, learning, technology, web2.0, webtools
Tagged conference, distance_learning, eLearning, MERLOT, MERLOT08, web2.0
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We May be on the Cutting Edge/Signs of Hope
http://www.freefoto.com/preview/15-27-2?ffid=15-27-2 I have a friend who is updating a well-known business writing textbook. She wants to add an assignment where students have to using podcasting or videocasting, and wants my help in figuring out how to set it up. I see an inroad into college and university communications courses – provided, of course, that the View Post
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Posted in communication, education, learning, technology, video, web2.0, webtools
Tagged podcasting, social_web, videocasting, web2.0, wikis, WorkLiteracy
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Using the Web in Schools – Two Solitudes
Recently I posted a comment on a blog and checked off the little box that okays email notification every time a comment is added. The blog post is on Will Richardson’s Weblog-ed: learning with the read/write web and it is an urgent call for educators, aka teachers, to get more knowledgable about the web and View Post
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Posted in education, Internet_use, learning, learning 2.0, technology, tips, web2.0, webtools
Tagged education, learning, read/write_web, social_media, teachers, teaching, web2.0
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Educating for the 21st Century
Because I am part of the very active edublogger community, I sometimes have a false sense of security about what is happening in education. Every so often, though, I talk to a teacher, or even, as I did this morning, a tech professional, and am startled at the gaps in knowledge about our new communication View Post
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Posted in education, learning, learning 2.0
Tagged education, learning, learning2.0, school, social media, web2.0
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Following The Thread – my Ph.D. Thesis
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Posted in communication, computers, education, howto, hypertext, Internet_use, laptop, learning, learning 2.0, PLE, research, teaching writing, technology, thesis, web2.0, webtools, writing
Tagged education, learning, research, teaching, web2.0, webtools, word-processing
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