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My blogSearch for information about easy-to-use web applications and communicating how to communicate using these applications - within my blog WebTools For Learners Learner
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Setting Up Your Web Browsers
My current recommended browser is Firefox - http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features.html
Flock is also a good browser, as Liz B. Davis describes here - http://tinyurl.com/3m2mrk
There are many practical, yet non-technical aspects to using Web browsers. From my practical blog, WebToolsForLearners, I have linked some posts that provide advice and how-to's:
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her initial original reluctance gives her empathy with others who may be unenthusiastic, while her current fascination with the web’s many easy communication possibilities helps others develop their web knowledge.
As well as consulting privately with writers, including mid-teens, business people, and doctoral students, on using the web for business and academic purposes, Joan has taught in both the college and university systems. Joan also provides support for those wishing to develop their presenting skills and/or their use of online social applications.
She is interested in Multiple Intelligences, Attention Deficit Disorder and its connection to creativity, Jung, Campbell’s Monomyth, and arts-based Narrative Inquiry. Sh]]> Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:34:54 +0000 mod http://jnthweb.pbwiki.com/AcademicPapers email.hidden@example.com (Joan Vinall-Cox) Joan Vinall-Cox edited AcademicPapers Revising Your Drafts
Some good advice - http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/revision.html
The Importance of Proofreading - humour, with a point!
Citing Your Sources
About citing (and avoiding plagiarism) - http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/
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Add page numbers, (under Insert, Page Numbers);
If you use pictures as part of the content, add captions and then generate a Table of Figures - http://blip.tv/file/757271
Create a Title Page containing the title of your assignment, your name, your teacher's name, and the due date, nicely formatted, of course.
If you have an open-minded teacher or boss, you might get more creative with the title page
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The more recent Word - using a screencast on Blip.tv - http://joanvinallcox.blip.tv/#752607
or as posted in YouTube, below
Add page numbers, (under Insert, Page Numbers);
Create a Title Page containing the title of your assignment, your name, your teacher's name, and the due date, nicely formatted, of course.
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Use the Styles feature for headings, especially if you might want a Table of Contents;
The earlier Word layout
Change the Styles formatting, if you want to use different fonts or sizes than the default ones;
The more recent Word - using a screencast on Blip.tv - http://joanvinallcox.blip.tv/#752607
Add page numbers, (under Insert, Page Numbers);
Create a Title Page containing the title of your assignment, your name, your teacher's name, and the due date, nicely formatted, of course.
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and much more ....
My practical blog WebToolsForLearners
My eduspacesblog for thinking about easy-to-use web applications and academic community communicating using these applications - WebTools For Learners
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Contact Dr. Joan Vinall-Cox, jvinall-cox@cogeco.ca for information on consulting possibilities.
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Using Social Software for Educational Purposes
Vinall-Cox, Ph.D. Ph.D. - http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/
The World Wide Web and computer-use in general have caused massive changes in how we communicate, and consequently, how we teach and learn. Currently, the Web has changed from a “read-only” environment to a “read/write” space where lack of technical knowledge is no longer a barrier. Anyone who can send and receive email has the skills required to be part of what is called Web 2.0, the Read/Write Web, or Social Media.
Web 2.0, the social web, is of special importance in education for two reasons:
An Opening Education Report from Futurelab - by Martin Owen, Lyndsay Grant, Steve Sayers and Keri Facer
Futurelab-Research-Publications-Socialsoftwareandlearning - The first 12 pages introduce the reader to what social software is, and the remainder discuss why it is so significant for education.
Regularly Updated Informa]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:10:14 +0000 mod http://jnthweb.pbwiki.com/SocialSoftware email.hidden@example.com (Joan Vinall-Cox) Joan Vinall-Cox edited SocialSoftware Uses of Blogs in Education
Explanation of blogs - http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs
groups to where everybody can post on, so in the same blog. The teacher can maintain it, a single blog, allowing student comments, or with can set up a group blog where all the members of the class adding can add posts.
Blogs can private by setting them up so the readership is limited to the students, or the to he students and their parents
EduBlogs - especially for teaching - http://edublogs.org/ - powered by WordPress, free - http://edublogs.org/10-ways-to-use-your-edublog-to-teach/
blogs here can also be set up to be individual or to have groups to post on.
Other Uses o]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:03:34 +0000 mod http://jnthweb.pbwiki.com/SocialSoftware email.hidden@example.com (Joan Vinall-Cox) Joan Vinall-Cox edited SocialSoftware 1. It is a superb environment for teaching and learning as it allows, indeed almost demands, collaborative construction and sharing of projects and papers.
2. We must not abandon students to simply a youth-culture use of the social web. They are on it, they understand the technical aspects, but they need to balance what can be a rather unstructured space with an understanding of the possibilities for civil, educational, and business uses.
An Excellent Introduction to The Significance of the Social Software Media for Learning and Learning: An Teaching
How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1568480-1,00.html
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by Joan Vinall-Cox, Ph.D.
Web is morphing has changed from a “read-only” environment to a “read/write” space where lack of technical knowledge is no longer a barrier. Anyone who can send and receive email has the skills required to be part of what is called Web 2.0, the Read/Write Web. Web, or Social Media.
Web 2.0, the social web, is of special importance in education for two reasons:
1. It is a superb environment for teaching and learning as it allows, indeed almost demands, collaborative construction and sharing of projects and papers.
The first 12 pages introduce the reader to what social software is, and the remainder discuss why it is so significant for education.
Uses of Wikis
work - http://oralrhetoricpwc.pbwiki.com/ -
An updatable webpage to maintain currency - http://wiki.cs.brynmawr.edu/ Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:30:24 +0000 mod http://jnthweb.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Joan Vinall-Cox) Joan Vinall-Cox edited FrontPage MyBio
Contact Dr. Joan Vinall-Cox, jvinall-cox@cogeco.ca for information on consulting and/or training possibilities.
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I design and run workshops and seminars, and am available for consulting, researching, writing, editing, proofreading and projects. I also suggest web 2.0 applications suitable for business and learning websites.
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