2008

Thumbspeak: Books: The New Yorker

For those interested in language and texting, from the New Yorker – via GrammarGirl on Twitter

tags: textmessaging, texting, language, linguistics

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WebTools For Teachers 10/17/2008

Are You a ‘Digital Native?’ | Newsweek Tech and Business | Newsweek.com – Annotated

Using the web changes our plastic brains, (just like reading changes the wiring in our brains and reading has changed our culture radically). Been sayng this for years, based on my readings on reading. Glad to see the impact of web usage on our brains has been researched and documented. Especially glad that it’s good for seniors’ brains;->

tags: brain, research, Digital_Native
PDF2Word Online: Convert PDF to Word for Free

For those times when I want to copy & paste from a PDF document.

tags: pdf, word

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Wikiversity:Main Page – Wikiversity

Is this the future of all of education, or just of a growing portion?

tags: wiki, education, learning, elearning, teaching

This Blog Sits at the: Story time: aka commerce gets more cultural

Very interesting look at how te new media is affecting how advertising works (or not).

tags: commerce, culture, Advertising

Justin McFarland’s

A truly supportive blog for teachers and others. Excellent explanations of how use use the web. This is, in my opinion, what all educators should be learning from and offering back to their fellow teachers and their students!

tags: howto, web2.0, webapps, blogging, wordpress, wp, edublogs

Blogs and educating the eflective practitioner

Interesting Slideshare presentation on the importance of blogging as part of reflective practice. I really like the Harry Potter quote near the end.

tags: reflective_practice, blogging

100+ learning professsionals to follow on Twitter

I made Jane Hart’s list of “100+ (E-)Learning Professionals to follow on Twitter” and I’ve had a sudden increase in Followers. Itereting how the web works.

tags: JaneHart, twitter, elearning

12 Step Plan to getting engaged with social learning

Want to know more about social learning, or set up a course in it? Jane Hart has a plan. via Tony Karrer on Twitter

tags: Social_learning, web2.0, web-literacy, webapps

Free – Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals : eLearning Technology

Want to learn more about web 2.0 applications? I highly recommend this multi-level course – I’ve followed the leaders’s blogs for years. High value.

tags: elearning, web2.0, web-literacy