Author: joanvinallcox

Joan Vinall-Cox, Ph.D. is a lifelong learner, retired communications professor, and rabid reader who has taught in both the college and university systems. Her Ph.D., in 2004 was an Autoethnographic Arts-Based Narrative Inquiry focused on moving from technophobia to technophilia. She is a widow from a pretty happy marriage and a mother to a strong and kind daughter. Her interests include Centering Prayer, Multiple Intelligences, Attention Deficit Disorder and its connection to creativity, Jung, Campbell’s Monomyth, and Arts-Based Narrative Inquiry.

Using SoundCloud for Podcasting

January 23, 2011January 23, 2011 ~ joanvinallcox ~ Leave a comment

I want to see if I can embed a podcast in this, my WordPress.com blog. If this works, you can hear it below.

Here are the instructions I followed – http://kathryncorrick.co.uk/2009/08/18/testing-how-to-embed-soundcloud-files-to-wordpress/

WebTools etc. 01/19/2011

January 18, 2011 ~ joanvinallcox ~ Leave a comment

The Learning Generalist: Challenges and Failure are Great Tools for Learning

The info is findable. Learning happens in response to challenges where mistakes are allowed,

tags: challenges failure generalist learning tools

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

2010 in review

January 2, 2011 ~ joanvinallcox ~ Leave a comment

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,400 times in 2010. That’s about 13 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 62 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 548 posts. There were 48 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 10mb. That’s about 4 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was March 31st with 57 views. The most popular post that day was Kluging: An LMS Alternative.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were teacher.pageflakes.com, c4lpt.co.uk, twitter.com, ianmason.net, and browse.workliteracy.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for visual literacy, fotobook editor, udutu, google cheat sheet 2010, and google search cheat sheet.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Kluging: An LMS Alternative October 2008
11 comments

Visual Literacy and Visual Thinking July 2008
10 comments

Joan Vinall-Cox’s E-Portfolio September 2008
20 comments

Photobook Adventures (and advice) December 2008
4 comments

udutu – Free, Easy, and Perhaps Unnecessary August 2008
2 comments

Vivid Slideshow on How to Use PowerPoint (Without Sucking!)

December 6, 2010December 6, 2010 ~ joanvinallcox ~ Leave a comment

Great advice here!

Teacher Resource – oedb.org

August 24, 2010 ~ joanvinallcox ~ Leave a comment

A lovely (complimentary without being specific) email alerted me to an interesting looking teacher resource, http://oedb.org/

There are lots of ideas there for teachers or others to scan through and choose from, including the one of Google for educators – http://oedb.org/library/features/100_ways_google_make_you_better_educator