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Interesting view of the web, how information gets distributed, and the impact on individuals
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
WebTools For Teachers 04/13/2008
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No Man’s Blog – Jimmy is happy (or how the twitter effect is changing social cognition) – Annotated
We’re increasingly experiencing moments of our lives through the prisms of public expressions. It’s not just about sharing or self expression. It’s a new type of introspection or reflexive thinking – our inner thoughts are occasionally being processed and translated, in real time, through the ways we will, or may tell the world about it.
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Why Would Teachers Use Diigo? | Clif’s Notes
Several views from teachers, in comments, about social bookmarking possibilities and potential problems.
WebTools For Teachers 04/12/2008
About Using Active Verbs
Cathy Moore helps people learn how to replace is/are/ etc. with more active verbs. Check it out – http://blog.cathy-moore.com/?p=207 – It’s short, it’s fun, and it makes its point clearly. (Am I contradicting her point? ;->)
Social Maps: How the Digital People Keep Connected
This video by Loic Lemeur is intimidating, inspiring and irritating.
- Intimidating because he has such wide ranging use of the social media;
- Inspiring because I get some idea what I want to spend more time with; and
- Irritating because it pauses every few seconds and you have to wait for it to go on.
found through my Bloglines – http://www.cybersoc.com/2008/04/pulling-your-so.html h/t Robin Hamman
Learning Wikispaces With Readability
People decide about what to read, on paper or on the web, before they de-code a single word. If the page looks dense and/or difficult, readers, unless they are highly motivated, will just move on. When people learn to write or to create a web page, they should, IMHO, learn about readability as the same time as they learn how to use the application. I’ve tried to combine information about the Wikispaces icons and readability in this document, aimed at the new user, especially if they are not too familiar with web layout and usability.
BTW, if you read this blog regularly, you will have noticed that the links I bookmark are now being added as a post on a daily basis. I have found many interesting and helpful links on the blogs of others who also do this, so I figured out how to for mine. Hope some of them are helpful or interesting for you.
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