Check it out –
- For Macs – http://download.cnet.com/Mozilla-Firefox/3000-2356_4-10208569.html
- For PCs – http://firefox.en.softonic.com/
- For learning about it – https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/
Author: joanvinallcox
Joan Vinall-Cox, Ph.D. is a lifelong learner, retired communications professor, rabid reader and poet 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 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
Why Marking Sucks
This poem is the truest account of the problem with marking in a system where learning is supposed to occur!
An excerpt –
I read the name at the top
and think of the young person whose effort this is.
Now all I see on the paper
is a face, crestfallen when I hand back what they attempted.
by Tom Wayman
Click the link below for the whole poem.
How to Target a New Tab for an Image Link
Here’s a picture I want to link to another website and have it open in another tab or window:
The image above links to the website it’s from, but opens on the same page as this post, replacing this post.
I click on the image (in Edit) and choose the far left icon of a picture, and check that the link I want to target is there:
Then I click on “Advanced Setting at the top, and scroll to the bottom of the next screen
Click beside “Target, and now, your link will open in a new tab or window:
WebTools etc. 01/25/2011
Using SoundCloud for Podcasting
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
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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,
2010 in review
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:
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.
1
Kluging: An LMS Alternative October 2008
11 comments
2
Visual Literacy and Visual Thinking July 2008
10 comments
3
Joan Vinall-Cox’s E-Portfolio September 2008
20 comments
4
Photobook Adventures (and advice) December 2008
4 comments
5
udutu – Free, Easy, and Perhaps Unnecessary August 2008
2 comments
Vivid Slideshow on How to Use PowerPoint (Without Sucking!)
Great advice here!
Teacher Resource – oedb.org
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
Google Search Cheat Sheet
Want a quick and easy lesson in sophisticated searching? Check out, bookmark, and/or print out http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html
Cross-posted at JNthWEB.ca – http://jnthweb.ca/2010/08/google-search-cheat-sheet/
