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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: WorkLiteracy
Styles in MS Word – A Jing Video
I’m attending the PBWorks Camp for teachers, and this is my homework for my second week, a screencast made using Jing on how Styles in MS Word can help in writing long pieces such as academic papers or business reports: 2009-07-02_1211 I re-did this a number of times, dealing with – fitting what I wanted View Post
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Posted in communication, education, howto, learning, screencast, teaching writing, technology, Uncategorized, wiki, word-processing, writing
Tagged business, communication, education, Jing, learning, wiki, Word, word-processing, WorkLiteracy
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Social Bookmarking – Diigo
Social bookmarking is one of the most useful aspects of the web. You can use it to create your own online library, organized to your own interests by using tags. Although I’ve been using some form of social bookmarking for years, every so often I want to review what I can do with the social View Post
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Posted in blogging, bookmark, delicious, e-learning, howto, references, research, Search, share, socialmedia, social_bookmarking, tagging, Uncategorized
Tagged delicious, Diigo, research, socialmedia, social_bookmarking, WorkLiteracy
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Twitter Means Business
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 … and commented that it reminded me of a Liberty print. (I have fond memories of a dress made from material View Post
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Posted in ads, business, communication, digital economy, learning, socialmedia, social_web, Twitter, web2.0, webtools
Tagged business, learning, socialmedia, Twitter, WorkLiteracy
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Querulous Question #1
All the brouhaha about financial game playing and our perilous financial system has brought a question to my mind: why do we talk about wages with percentages? % If someone, A, making $20,000. gets a 5% raise, that’s $1000.00 dollars and they now make $21,000. If someone, B, making $200,000. gets the same percentage, 5%, View Post
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Posted in business, communication, organizing_information, research
Tagged business, communication, WorkLiteracy
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An 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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From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able by Wesch
Michael Wesch is a pedagogical hero of mine. I’ve watched videos his classes made; I’ve watched a video of him explaining his teaching, and I asked a question on Twitter, and even though he doesn’t follow me, got an anwser from him within a few hours! He understands the impact of the new communication ecosphere View Post
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Posted in communication, Downes, learning, learning 2.0, Michael Wesch, netgen, Stephen Downes, technology, video, web2.0, webtools, wiki, Wikipedia
Tagged communication, education, learning, wikis, 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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Publishing Changes
The web is less than 20 years old, but I see some remarkable yet indirect changes in the other media which are occurring because of it. Newspapers, magazines, tv shows, publishing, and textbook publishing are all being affected. About a year ago I noticed that the way the Toronto Star, numbered its sections had changed. View Post
View PostBack-To-School – Mini Notebook is a Good Fit
For years the fountain pen, such a wonderful development from the straight pen, ruled the writing world. For years the typewriter gave our paper communications the professionally neat look, before the personal computer made it redundant. The laptop taught us that we could carry our composing/working tool around, maybe not as conveniently as a pen View Post
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Posted in communication, education, learning, technology, web2.0
Tagged back-to-school, mini_notebook, WorkLiteracy
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