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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990</id><updated>2024-03-07T15:23:33.810-05:00</updated><category term="web2.0"/><category term="video"/><category term="Wikipedia"/><category term="del.icio.us"/><category term="education"/><category term="Google"/><category term="PLE"/><category term="backup"/><category term="crash"/><category term="research"/><category term="social_bookmarking"/><category term="teaching writing"/><category term="Canada"/><category term="Clipmarks"/><category term="Jane_Hart"/><category term="Jott"/><category term="Mac"/><category term="Michael 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economy"/><category term="e-learning"/><category term="embed"/><category term="essays"/><category term="folksonomy"/><category term="fraud"/><category term="gmail"/><category term="graphic_design"/><category term="gseimens"/><category term="hacking"/><category term="house prices"/><category term="howto"/><category term="html"/><category term="humor"/><category term="humour"/><category term="hypertext"/><category term="image"/><category term="images"/><category term="indexing"/><category term="information"/><category term="issuu"/><category term="kitten"/><category term="labeling"/><category term="laptop"/><category term="learning 2.0"/><category term="mash"/><category term="messages"/><category term="military spending"/><category term="mindmap"/><category term="mobile_learning"/><category term="netgen"/><category term="newspapers"/><category term="notes"/><category term="organizer"/><category term="organizing_information"/><category term="phone"/><category term="podcasts"/><category term="predators"/><category term="printing"/><category term="reading_online"/><category term="recovered"/><category term="references"/><category term="reform"/><category term="reminders"/><category term="rewriting"/><category term="screencast"/><category term="share"/><category term="social network"/><category term="social_web"/><category term="study shadows flowers"/><category term="thesis"/><category term="tips"/><category term="toy exports"/><category term="toy imports"/><category term="visual"/><category term="war and death"/><category term="wealth of nations 1500"/><category term="wealth of nations 2002"/><category term="web_home"/><category term="wiki"/><category term="wikimindmap"/><category term="word-processing"/><title type='text'>WebToolsforLearners</title><subtitle type='html'>Web 2.0 tools for formal and informal learners: students, teachers business people and others.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' 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  2. I have a new smart phone with Bell Canada, and I decided to set up an account with them so I could do business with them online. This is the email I couldn&#39;t send them because there&#39;s no available address:&lt;/div&gt;
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  6. &quot;This is totally messed up - and I&#39;m really tired after an hour and a half of trying to sort it out myself, and with chat, and on the phone.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  10. I now have three different user names for my bell, one my name spelled wrong, and at least one question I didn&#39;t add.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  14. Promised emails don&#39;t come - possibly because a variation on my email address that I NEVER have used was on the account I was trying to set up no matter how many times I corrected it. Other emails arrive with contradictory info.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  18. Horrible experience!!!!!!!!&lt;/div&gt;
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  22. Plus the website is useless on my mobile device:&lt;/div&gt;
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  24. &lt;li&gt;writing too small when upright&lt;/li&gt;
  25. &lt;li&gt;keyboard covers most of the screen when sideways&lt;/li&gt;
  26. &lt;li&gt;automatically enlarges when entering info, which means scrolling sideways and up &amp;amp; down looking for &quot;Next&quot; which turns out to be &quot;Continue&quot; on the far right and partway down, totally useless for mobile users.&lt;/li&gt;
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  28. Your Web designers are beyond inept, into business - destroying.&amp;nbsp; If I hadn&#39;t just signed a 2 year contract I&#39;d be gone. For sure I won&#39;t be considering using any other of your services.&quot;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/7024709656735149224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=7024709656735149224&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/7024709656735149224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/7024709656735149224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2013/12/bell-canadas-website-is-useless-for.html' title='Bell Canada&#39;s website is Useless for Phones'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-6824294006773883396</id><published>2008-02-18T14:51:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-18T15:00:27.067-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Moved to WordPress</title><content type='html'>Well I&#39;ve made a move I&#39;ve been contemplating for a long time - I&#39;ve moved my WebToolsForLearners blog from here on Blogger to &lt;a href=&quot;http://wordpress.org/&quot;&gt;WordPress&lt;/a&gt; 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in being efficient on the web. When I have research time, and sometimes just because I feel like it, I go to the web to learn more and to keep up with what is available and useful for me and for other educators. I see this as basic life and professional research, and something all educational professionals should be concerned about, both for themselves and for their students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;thumbnail&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/vinall/ge5m/bloglines&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20080214-1xfth754158qdehy4un2dy4fx.preview.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bloglines&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(128, 128, 128);font-family:Lucida Grande,Trebuchet,sans-serif,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;Uploaded with &lt;a href=&quot;http://plasq.com/&quot;&gt;plasq&lt;/a&gt;&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/&quot;&gt;Skitch&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Although I&#39;ve been using my RSS reader &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.bloglines.com/b/view#view-playlistid.57631-viewDisplay.startpage-displayModel.startpage%26t%3D1203009087934&quot;&gt;Bloglines&lt;/a&gt; as the source for my &quot;harvesting&quot; for my ongoing learning, recently I find I&#39;ve been neglecting it somewhat because I go to it &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;after&lt;/span&gt; I collect professionally and personally relevant URLs from those I follow on &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/home&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;thumbnail&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/vinall/ge5w/twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20080214-x1wh13hd4kg9frg5afy4mtsmgd.preview.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Twitter&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(128, 128, 128);font-family:Lucida Grande,Trebuchet,sans-serif,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;Uploaded with &lt;a href=&quot;http://plasq.com/&quot;&gt;plasq&lt;/a&gt;&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/&quot;&gt;Skitch&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;An aside, I&#39;m proud of the background I uploaded, a photo I took, then manipulated in Photoshop. I plan to continue being seasonal in my background.&lt;br /&gt;The people I follow on &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/home&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;thumbnail&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/vinall/ge52/twitterfollowing&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20080214-trbwt2tum1qhbm2rxmi4mspfx6.preview.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;TwitterFollowing&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(128, 128, 128);font-family:Lucida Grande,Trebuchet,sans-serif,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;Uploaded with &lt;a href=&quot;http://plasq.com/&quot;&gt;plasq&lt;/a&gt;&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/&quot;&gt;Skitch&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;As you can see, I like having visuals along with my text;-&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A couple of days ago, I found some interesting-looking material that I didn&#39;t have time to read. I added them to &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/ShiftingSemiosis&quot;&gt;my del.icio.us account&lt;/a&gt; and tagged them, but knew they could easily disappear into that great reservoir of learning possibilities. So I tried out something I&#39;d read about on Twitter - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.instapaper.com/u&quot;&gt;Instapaper&lt;/a&gt;, which allows me to save articles and blog posts to be read later. I have put its link on my personal Bookmarks toolbar, and I save things there, and maybe ;-&gt; read them later. (There are so many choices, so much available!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;thumbnail&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/vinall/gehy/instapaper&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20080214-k6n49xatujf5qqn6n4sya6wsay.preview.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Instapaper&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(128, 128, 128);font-family:Lucida Grande,Trebuchet,sans-serif,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;Uploaded with &lt;a href=&quot;http://plasq.com/&quot;&gt;plasq&lt;/a&gt;&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/&quot;&gt;Skitch&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This description of my PLE and my web reading/researching process is a lead-up to, and I hope, a demonstration of, what the two articles I eventually read, and am blogging about, said.&lt;br /&gt;First, from JISC - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/01/googlegen.aspx&quot;&gt;http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/01/googlegen.aspx &lt;/a&gt; -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;     &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;New report reveals the information needs of the researchers and learners of the future &lt;/i&gt;   &lt;/p&gt; A new report, commissioned by JISC and the British Library, counters the common assumption that the ‘Google Generation’ – young people born or brought up in the Internet age – is the most adept at using the web. The report by the CIBER research team at University College London claims that, although young people demonstrate an ease and familiarity with computers, they rely on the most basic search tools and do not possess the critical and analytical skills to asses the information that they find on the web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The findings also send a stark message to government - that young people are dangerously lacking information skills. Well-funded information literacy programmes are needed, it continues, if the UK is to remain as a leading knowledge economy with a strongly-skilled next generation of researchers.&lt;/blockquote&gt;This research supports what I have seen in Canadian classrooms, and leads directly to my next quote from David Parry&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scienceprogress.org/&quot;&gt;Science Progress&lt;/a&gt; blog post about the use of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; in academia - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/02/wikipedia-and-the-new-curriculum/&quot;&gt;http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/02/wikipedia-and-the-new-curriculum/&lt;/a&gt; I was particularly struck by the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;It is irresponsible for educational institutions not to teach new knowledge technologies such as Wikipedia.  I should probably admit upfront that I am not a scientist by training; my scholarship grows out of literary studies and a concern for how literacy changes in the age of the digital. Wikipedia, or more generally the networked archival structure it represents, alters the way in which we create, share, and record knowledge, and thus has rather significant effects on how we approach education across all disciplines, and specifically in technology and science. Students and teachers alike must understand how systems of knowledge creation and archivization are changing. Encyclopedias are no longer static collections of facts and figures; they are living entities, and the new software changes the rules of expertise.&lt;/blockquote&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;When I hear debates about the digital divide, access is often the largest issue, as if merely having access to computers solves the problem. “Bring computers into the schools and fund technology” are the regular solutions. However, the technology here is merely secondary: what is more important is teaching people how this technology changes the social sphere so that students too can be empowered to engage the polis rather than being passive users of Word Processing programs. Knowledge of how to indent paragraphs on a computer or make bullet points for a Power Point presentation is meaningless without the more important literacy of how to use these new media collaboratively to create a different kind of knowledge. Literacy in modern society means not only being able to read a variety of informational formats; it means being able to participate in their creation, with Wikipedia serving as the marquee example.&lt;/blockquote&gt;I suggest that you read the whole post, especially if you think you disagree.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/4061867195302741682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=4061867195302741682&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/4061867195302741682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/4061867195302741682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2008/02/web-20-and-responsible-educators.html' title='Web 2.0 and Responsible Educators'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-5711331283694984625</id><published>2008-02-13T09:09:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T10:41:01.749-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="books_online"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ignatia"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="issuu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="reading_online"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Scribd"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="thesis"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Twitter"/><title type='text'>Book-Reading Online</title><content type='html'>I have put a book up online, where it can be read easily and comfortably, even aesthetically. Let me introduce how and why.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My high school typing class was pre-electric typewriter, and what I learned was that I was lousy at typing and I hated it. The first time I saw a student who was a struggling writer learn how to use the Bank Street Writer, an early word processor, I knew writing with a computer, where I could correct without re-copying, was for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/9/36/94/x5a_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.gapingvoid.com/olivettimp1grey-03221.jpg&quot; title=&quot;olivettimp1grey-03221.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x433 pixels)&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; height=&quot;335&quot; width=&quot;390&quot; /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gapingvoid.com/olivettimp1grey-03221.jpg&quot;&gt;olivettimp1grey-03221.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x433 pixels)&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/93694x5a&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I was introduced to dos, and I hated it! Even when I copied out step-by-step instructions, I still frequently had to ask for help. Mild dyslexia might have been part of this, and only a very strong pull to write kept me going back to this early computer system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the college where I worked introduced Windows, I was delighted to discover the GUI - that is, the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;G&lt;/span&gt;raphical&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; U&lt;/span&gt;ser &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;nterface! (Imitating the visual and user-friendly Mac)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;thumbnail&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/8/x5/5a/z8p_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/html/ch02s08.html&quot; title=&quot;GUIs in the era of commodity hardware&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; height=&quot;396&quot; width=&quot;488&quot; /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/writings/taouu/html/ch02s08.html&quot;&gt;GUIs in the era of commodity hardware&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/8x55az8p&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;As a writer and a writing &amp;amp; communications teacher, I began to see what a profound communications tool this was. Mentored by two women who were computer experts, I began to play. I created a website using Netscape Navigator&#39;s Composer (I love WYSIWYG) and managed to learn about computer and web use for communicating without ever learning anything but a few dribbles of HTML code.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are wondering what this had to do with reading books online, be patient, just a little more introduction;-&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had come to believe that we, my generation, were living through the most profound change in communications (and therefore of human culture) since the printing press. I returned to school determined to write a thesis both about and demonstrating the learning required for, and the impact of, the personal computer and the web. I was lucky enough to have Dr Patrick Diamond supervise me as I wrote an autoethnographic arts-based narrative inquiry, probably the only way I could actually demonstrate the possibilities of word-processing and the web. I would have made my thesis multimedia, if I&#39;d had the skills required at that era (2004). I was happy to settle for using a variety of fonts and layouts, each conveying a different &quot;voice&quot; (&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:78%;&quot;&gt;inspired by authors such as Stephen King in &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Misery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) and lots of screenshots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sent my thesis out to some academic publishers, who rejected it. I knew that the extensive use of different fonts and coloured screenshots would make it very expensive, and that in itself, made it unlikely to be published. After a couple of years, I investigated what it would cost to publish through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/&quot;&gt;lulu&lt;/a&gt;; too much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few days ago, someone on &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;, (&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:78%;&quot;&gt;sorry I forget who&lt;/span&gt;) referred to &lt;a href=&quot;http://issuu.com/publications&quot;&gt;issuu&lt;/a&gt;. I looked at it. I was struck by four things:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;It kept the appearance of my pages intact;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;It suggested the aesthetic experience of reading with a beautiful page-turning animation;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;It accepted even very large pdf files; and&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;It was free.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;I uploaded my thesis and embedded it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://issuu.com/publications&quot;&gt;the previous post&lt;/a&gt; in this blog. I had some struggles with the size of text and moving through it, but it was beautiful. I mentioned my blog post in &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/Ignatia&quot;&gt;Ignatia&lt;/a&gt; responded, and expanded in her blog - &lt;a href=&quot;http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/2008/02/document-sharing-software.html&quot;&gt;http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/2008/02/document-sharing-software.html &lt;/a&gt; - and I discovered &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scribd.com/faq&quot;&gt;Scribd &lt;/a&gt;. (Thanks Ignatia.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I liked four things about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scribd.com/faq&quot;&gt;Scribd &lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;It kept the appearance of my pages intact;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;It was easy to move through the text;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;It accepted even very large pdf files; and&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;It was free.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;So my thesis is up on both &lt;a href=&quot;http://issuu.com/vinall-cox/docs/followingthethread&quot;&gt;issuu&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scribd.com/doc/2063617/Following-the-Thread-A-New-Technology&quot;&gt;scribd&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;d love to hear what you think of both issuu and scribd, and maybe even of my thesis;-&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/5711331283694984625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=5711331283694984625&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/5711331283694984625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/5711331283694984625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2008/02/book-reading-online.html' title='Book-Reading Online'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-3625301445424998538</id><published>2008-02-10T17:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T17:57:16.119-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Following The Thread - my Ph.D. Thesis</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v1/IssuuViewer.swf&quot; 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via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/9scifehr&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A year earlier, I had described why I liked Elgg/EduSpaces so much, and quoted some &lt;a href=&quot;http://eduspaces.net/vinall/weblog/145563.html&quot;&gt;student comments&lt;/a&gt; about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/u/5r/uk/nif_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://eduspaces.net/vinall/weblog/145563.html&quot; title=&quot;Joan Vinall-Cox :: Blog :: An Encomium for Elgg&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; usemap=&quot;#kwout_u5ruknif&quot; height=&quot;490&quot; width=&quot;561&quot; /&gt;&lt;map name=&quot;kwout_u5ruknif&quot; id=&quot;kwout_u5ruknif&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;129,0,182,3&quot; href=&quot;http://eduspaces.net/vinall/weblog/archive/&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;492,124,508,135&quot; href=&quot;http://www.box.net/&quot; 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And some of my EduSpaces Friends show up on Twitter, and I will find their blogs so I can continue to follow them through RSS, but my first web home, where I learned so much about web possibilities, will be dismantled at the end of this month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;ve already have a number of web spots outside of my elgg/EduSpaces nest, for example this blog, but I will miss the nurturing I experienced in my first web community, and I thank Dave, Ben and Misja for what they have given me, my Friends, and my fellows.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/6621847823826201774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=6621847823826201774&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/6621847823826201774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/6621847823826201774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2008/02/losing-my-web-home.html' title='Losing My Web Home'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-4705947954016021390</id><published>2008-02-05T11:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T12:02:52.045-05:00</updated><title type='text'>For eNews Junkies</title><content type='html'>For those of you who are fascinated by this American electoral process, the BBC have a very comprehensive site - &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/7223461.stm&quot;&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/7223461.stm&lt;/a&gt; - where American bias is less likely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Canadians and those interested in copyright news, I recommend THE most knowledgable person in Canada on Canadian copyright legislation, and elobbyist for a democratic web - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php&quot;&gt;Michael Geist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/6/ei/bq/s2u_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php&quot; title=&quot;Michael Geist - Blog&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; usemap=&quot;#kwout_6eibqs2u&quot; height=&quot;204&quot; width=&quot;505&quot; /&gt;&lt;map name=&quot;kwout_6eibqs2u&quot; id=&quot;kwout_6eibqs2u&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;0,4,66,130&quot; href=&quot;http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;70,50,336,85&quot; href=&quot;http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php&quot; 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via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/6eibqs2u&quot;&gt;kwoat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a&gt;On copyright legislation - &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2666/125/&quot;&gt;http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2666/125/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;On the role of technology in Obama&#39;s run for the presidency - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2675/135/&quot;&gt;http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2675/135/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/4705947954016021390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=4705947954016021390&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/4705947954016021390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/4705947954016021390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2008/02/for-enews-junkies.html' title='For eNews Junkies'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-3414886701523897183</id><published>2008-02-02T14:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-02T14:48:01.286-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="auditory_learning"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="education"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="elearning"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="podcasts"/><title type='text'>Learning by Ear</title><content type='html'>I grew up listening to my mother play piano &quot;by ear&quot;. She&#39;d taken piano lessons after her older sister and heard her practice all the pieces she would be learning. After a few lessons the teacher told my grandparents that there was no point in paying for piano lessons for my Mom, as she was playing &quot;by ear&quot;. She could play any piece after hearing it a few times so she didn&#39;t need to learn to read music. She played beautifully, and very expressively without the benefit of lessons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/9/yt/mv/7gy_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.oldpianos.com/images/Trades/94samick.jpg&quot; title=&quot;94samick.jpg (JPEG Image, 1681x1607 pixels) - Scaled (46%)&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; height=&quot;347&quot; width=&quot;380&quot; /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oldpianos.com/images/Trades/94samick.jpg&quot;&gt;94samick.jpg (JPEG Image, 1681x1607 pixels) - Scaled (46%)&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/9ytmv7gy&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/9ytmv7gy&quot;&gt;A few years back, fellow teachers and some students began to talk about &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trentu.ca/academic/geography/swurtele/slr/learningstyles.html&quot;&gt;visual, audio, and kinesthetic learners&lt;/a&gt;, declaring that each person favoured certain senses for taking in information, for learning. With the advent of the web with its sight and sound possibilities, learners can choose to learn through a variety of media, and perceptual channels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4UZeDpnUuMA202v-gohp8yyrPackZVmMuVCOOip9INJP4YM8rqnYTEDv31SRKqXVS-qNQ1hbsa7qED1ihs6zP18MbQYoMaVJuCfNbsB2htmInEIGUAdlzE86GJc0D-CvgZCbZ7w/s1600-h/EarMouth.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4UZeDpnUuMA202v-gohp8yyrPackZVmMuVCOOip9INJP4YM8rqnYTEDv31SRKqXVS-qNQ1hbsa7qED1ihs6zP18MbQYoMaVJuCfNbsB2htmInEIGUAdlzE86GJc0D-CvgZCbZ7w/s320/EarMouth.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162467911703501346&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Podcasting specialist, &lt;a href=&quot;http://trafcom.com/&quot;&gt;Donna Papacosta&lt;/a&gt;, in her &lt;a href=&quot;http://trafcom.typepad.com/blog/&quot;&gt;Trafcom News&lt;/a&gt; blog, links to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/skip-the-tuition:-100-free-podcasts-from-the-best-colleges-in-the-world&quot;&gt;Online Education Database&lt;/a&gt;, where you can listen, for free, to speakers, using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu/&quot;&gt;iTunes U&lt;/a&gt;, on topics like Human-Computer Interaction, Engineering Ethics, or a wide variety of others, from  universities such as  Queen&#39;s , Harvard, and the University of Glasgow. If you see yourself as an auditory learner, (&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:78%;&quot;&gt;cross-sensory phrasing deliberate&lt;/span&gt;) or simply would prefer to listen rather than read while commuting, check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/skip-the-tuition:-100-free-podcasts-from-the-best-colleges-in-the-world&quot;&gt;Online Education Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/3414886701523897183/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=3414886701523897183&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/3414886701523897183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/3414886701523897183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2008/02/learning-by-ear.html' title='Learning by Ear'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4UZeDpnUuMA202v-gohp8yyrPackZVmMuVCOOip9INJP4YM8rqnYTEDv31SRKqXVS-qNQ1hbsa7qED1ihs6zP18MbQYoMaVJuCfNbsB2htmInEIGUAdlzE86GJc0D-CvgZCbZ7w/s72-c/EarMouth.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-646692781382876467</id><published>2008-02-01T17:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-01T17:44:19.676-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Google"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lifehacker"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Search"/><title type='text'>Google Searching Tricks</title><content type='html'>Every so often I see a blog post that I want to not just save in my del.icio.us account - &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/shiftingsemiosis&quot;&gt;http://del.icio.us/shiftingsemiosis&lt;/a&gt; - but I want to actively learn how to use. &lt;a href=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/&quot;&gt;LifeHacker&lt;/a&gt;&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/339474/top-10-obscure-google-search-tricks&quot;&gt;Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks&lt;/a&gt; is one of those. The list starts at 10, and, although I&#39;d re-order a couple of the tricks, all of them are more than useful, exciting even.&lt;br /&gt;Here are some of my favorites:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/9/rw/5a/z8p_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/339474/top-10-obscure-google-search-tricks&quot; title=&quot;Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; usemap=&quot;#kwout_9rw5az8p&quot; height=&quot;335&quot; width=&quot;398&quot; /&gt;&lt;map name=&quot;kwout_9rw5az8p&quot; id=&quot;kwout_9rw5az8p&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;208,306,223,318&quot; href=&quot;http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=rose&amp;amp;imgtype=face&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;22,306,36,318&quot; href=&quot;http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=rose&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/map&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/339474/top-10-obscure-google-search-tricks&quot;&gt;Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/9rw5az8p&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/f/t9/rw/dc3_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/339474/top-10-obscure-google-search-tricks&quot; title=&quot;Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; usemap=&quot;#kwout_ft9rwdc3&quot; height=&quot;328&quot; width=&quot;378&quot; /&gt;&lt;map name=&quot;kwout_ft9rwdc3&quot; id=&quot;kwout_ft9rwdc3&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;256,282,331,294&quot; href=&quot;http://images.google.com/&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; 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shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;315,172,363,184&quot; href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;q=quarter+cup+in+teaspoons&amp;amp;btnG=Search&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;8,187,42,199&quot; href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;q=quarter+cup+in+teaspoons&amp;amp;btnG=Search&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;117,218,159,230&quot; href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;q=19+in+binary&amp;amp;btnG=Search&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;62,202,115,214&quot; href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;q=5+USD+in+Euro&amp;amp;btnG=Search&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;196,187,256,199&quot; href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;q=seconds+in+a+year&amp;amp;btnG=Search&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/map&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/339474/top-10-obscure-google-search-tricks&quot;&gt;Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/c6tmv7gy&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/m/wd/ni/feh_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/339474/top-10-obscure-google-search-tricks&quot; title=&quot;Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; height=&quot;217&quot; width=&quot;408&quot; /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/339474/top-10-obscure-google-search-tricks&quot;&gt;Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/mwdnifeh&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;There are other tricks - go to Lifehacker - &lt;a href=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/339474/top-10-obscure-google-search-tricks&quot;&gt;Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks&lt;/a&gt; - to see the rest!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/646692781382876467/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=646692781382876467&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/646692781382876467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/646692781382876467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-searching-tricks.html' title='Google Searching Tricks'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-3040040650307963988</id><published>2008-01-25T17:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-25T17:37:36.567-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="education"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="reform"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="research"/><title type='text'>&quot;That&#39;s The Way We&#39;ve Always Done It.&quot; &amp; Schools</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edtechnot.com/notjukes.html&quot;&gt;Ian Jukes&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edtechnot.com/index.html&quot;&gt;edtech&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(204, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;not&lt;/span&gt;.com&lt;/a&gt; has an excellent, easy-to-understand article explaining why school reform is so necessary and so difficult:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/n/nq/rw/dc3_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.edtechnot.com/notarticle103.html&quot; title=&quot;Ian Jukes article - 1/03&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; height=&quot;381&quot; width=&quot;387&quot; /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edtechnot.com/notarticle103.html&quot;&gt;Ian Jukes article - 1/03&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/nnqrwdc3&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;I recommend the whole article, especially if you disagree with it - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edtechnot.com/notarticle103.html&quot;&gt;http://www.edtechnot.com/notarticle103.html&lt;/a&gt; - because the snippit I&#39;ve supplied doesn&#39;t include the logic.&lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/nnqrwdc3&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Via Experiencing E-Learning - &lt;a href=&quot;http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/daily-bookmarks-01242008/&quot;&gt;http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/daily-bookmarks-01242008/&lt;/a&gt; - final link.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/3040040650307963988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=3040040650307963988&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/3040040650307963988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/3040040650307963988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2008/01/thats-way-weve-always-done-it-schools.html' title='&quot;That&#39;s The Way We&#39;ve Always Done It.&quot; &amp; Schools'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-6096234755111931573</id><published>2008-01-22T15:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-22T16:43:26.780-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="communication"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="graphic_design"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="newspapers"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="visual"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="web"/><title type='text'>Newpapers and the Web - Influences</title><content type='html'>I&#39;m finding it fascinating watching how the web is influencing the look and structure of newspapers. By the 1940s, magazines with their frequent images had begun influencing newspapers, as pictures became frequent, especially on the front page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/9/9e/7g/yjb_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://i19.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/77/ea/f0d7_1_b.JPG&quot; title=&quot;f0d7_1_b.JPG (JPEG Image, 400x300 pixels)&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; height=&quot;308&quot; width=&quot;410&quot; /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i19.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/77/ea/f0d7_1_b.JPG&quot;&gt;f0d7_1_b.JPG (JPEG Image, 400x300 pixels)&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/99e7gyjb&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;Readers read by glancing at various headlines and choosing articles, and often reading only a bit before moving on to another, or back to a previously started one. In some ways, the layout of these midcentury newspapers predated the glancing way people currently read web pages, as seen in this reading map of webpages:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/m/ve/7g/yjb_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html&quot; title=&quot;F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen&#39;s Alertbox)&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; height=&quot;332&quot; width=&quot;594&quot; /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html&quot;&gt;F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen&#39;s Alertbox)&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/mve7gyjb&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;spapers appeared  to be more influenced by  the layout of magazines than by the web.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: block;&quot; id=&quot;formatbar_Buttons&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;on&quot; style=&quot;display: block;&quot; id=&quot;formatbar_CreateLink&quot; title=&quot;Link&quot; onmouseover=&quot;ButtonHoverOn(this);&quot; onmouseout=&quot;ButtonHoverOff(this);&quot; onmouseup=&quot;&quot; onmousedown=&quot;CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton(&#39;richeditorframe&#39;, this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/u/px/jb/qs2_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/1/17/250px-Liberal_Landslide,_Globe_and_Mail_cover.jpg&quot; title=&quot;250px-Liberal_Landslide,_Globe_and_Mail_cover.jpg (JPEG Image, 250x405 pixels)&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; height=&quot;407&quot; width=&quot;252&quot; /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/1/17/250px-Liberal_Landslide,_Globe_and_Mail_cover.jpg&quot;&gt;250px-Liberal_Landslide,_Globe_and_Mail_cover.jpg (JPEG Image, 250x405 pixels)&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/upxjbqs2&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;However over the past year I&#39;ve seen changes that I attribute directly to the influence of the web. While many people I know would think that I was making a negative and critical statement about the changes in newspapers, I am not. I see these changes as intelligent awareness of the impact of the web on how we read. I also see them as making newpapers both more attractive too, and more likely to be read by, the digital generation, a real positive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;The first change I noticed had to do with the numbering of the newspaper sections in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thestar.com/0122082359/utilities/todayPaper&quot;&gt;Toronto Star&lt;/a&gt;. All my adult newspaper-reading life, the sections had been numbered by using the letters of the alphabet. I knew where to find the comics because I could find the section labelled &#39;F&#39; right after the section labelled &#39;E&#39; and before &#39;G&#39;. I was used to that. Alphabetical indexing was a well-established structure (which developed as a result of the invention of printing, but that another story.) Then some time ago, something called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29&quot;&gt;tagging&lt;/a&gt;&quot; was invented for the web, because linking is part of how the web works. This resulted in people expecting a &quot;label&quot; that was also a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword&quot;&gt;keyword&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;When the Toronto Star switched from alphabetical labelling to a kind of tagging of its sections, I didn&#39;t notice at first. The logic of labelling the Sports section &#39;S&#39;, and the Life section &#39;L&#39; made immediate sense to me, and I&#39;m sure to almost everybody. The first section remained &#39;A&#39; and the, usually second, World section became the variation &#39;AA&#39;, but the Business section was &#39;B&#39; even though it was rarely, if ever, second. Perhaps not verybody sees this change as influenced by the web, but I do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;I challenge anyone to deny the influence of the web in the way today&#39;s front page is laid out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/a/w3/ni/feh_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.thestar.com/0122082359/utilities/todayPaper&quot; title=&quot;TheStar.com - Today&#39;s Paper&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; height=&quot;449&quot; width=&quot;233&quot; /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thestar.com/0122082359/utilities/todayPaper&quot;&gt;TheStar.com - Today&#39;s Paper&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/aw3nifeh&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;Pictures catch the eye first, and the text is there to support the information in the pictures, just as on well-designed web pages. Then it&#39;s almost as though headings were hyperlinks, that you could click on (read below) for more information. The information is conveyed initially by the graphics, and the text is augmented further by graphics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;Our culture is becoming more visual in the representation of information, and was even before the net. The increasing use of  photos as part of newspapers and magazines grew steadily during the 20th Century, and was indirectly augmented by movie and tv. We like visually conveyed information and attractive graphic design, and the smart communicators know that. And, the side of the newspaper and web connection I haven&#39;t mentioned, the fact that I collected all my images from the web and are publishing them on the web, even though what I&#39;m observing is newspapers!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;Also posted at &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/aw3nifeh&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://eduspaces.net/vinall/weblog&quot;&gt;http://eduspaces.net/vinall/weblog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/6096234755111931573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=6096234755111931573&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/6096234755111931573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/6096234755111931573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2008/01/newpapers-and-web-influences.html' title='Newpapers and the Web - Influences'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-5408830994906549088</id><published>2008-01-17T21:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-17T21:52:03.905-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jane_Hart"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Warhol"/><title type='text'>Fun, fun, fun!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; 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we were discussing whether we could actually teach students how to edit their writing. As we talked about our various approaches, I remembered the room I boarded in my last year as an undergrad. I remembered how small it was and how the roof sloped over the bed so I had to be careful sitting up or I could bang my head. I remembered the really small table and how I did my editing on the floor, on the throw rug, usually after midnight before the day of the class it was due.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would have books from my university library or the local one piled on my bed. I would have recipe cards with the names of the books I was quoting from and/or using in my bibliography in a pile to the side. I would have another pile of cards with useful quotes copied out onto them fanned out in front of me on the rug I was kneeling on.  Lots of blank pages and scotch tape would be in front of me too, and my rough draft on my knees as I cut it into stripes so I could restructure it. I would lay out the stripes of paper and the cards with my quotes in the order I thought would &#39;work&#39;, then I would read through the collection and rearrange it a few times, before finalizing. I would write out new bits in between and then tape the stripes or cards that fit in next on the page. I would end up with several very messy, floppy pages, carefully numbered so I wouldn&#39;t get the order confused.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I would move to the small table that served as my desk, get some fresh paper, and begin copying out my essay by hand, on every other line. I hated doing the bibliography; I could never remember where the periods, commas and semi-colons went, and I couldn&#39;t believe it was all that important. And I knew I was a poor speller but often  defiently  refused to look up words. (At 3:00 a.m. I often felt defiant.) I used White Out too often, and did the covering page last, often as the sun was rising. Then I had breakfast and staggered through the day until whenever class was, when I handed in my essay in person, as required. Then I crashed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suspect some of today&#39;s students have a somewhat similar pattern in terms of timing. But let&#39;s look at some of the details of their process. Today almost all students will have, or have access to, a computer, and their rough draft will be written using a word processor. They will also use the computer for research, using the web to access web sites, some available on the open web, but also some found using Google Scholar or other academic search engines. Some will use &lt;a href=&quot;http://scholar.google.ca/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as a portal into their university&#39;s online resources and journals, if their university has added their library to the Google network, and if the students have their student number and the password. Some will order books, using the deep selection available online through sites like &lt;a href=&quot;http://amazon.ca/&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/&quot;&gt;Indigo&lt;/a&gt; rather than local bookstores. Some will have books from the library, but chances are they will use the web to check and see if the book was available and perhaps to put a hold on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some students will be using their &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/&quot;&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt; account or some other social bookmarking application to collect their online resources and tag them with helpful labels, including, perhaps, the name of the course or the essay topic. 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Copying and re-copying text writing by hand or by typing is just too onerous. They will copy &amp;amp; paste, not kneeling on the floor using scissors, paper, recipe cards and scotch tape, but by using keystrokes or clicking on menus. They won&#39;t be getting defiant about their spelling, they will just right click on the words underlined in red, and then click on the correct (we hope) word to replace it. They need to learn new skills with this new tool, like making sure that the word they chose is, indeed, the word they mean. And they will have to be taught to double-check what happened when they copied &amp;amp; pasted. It&#39;s way too easy to leave a word dangling or the wrong form of the verb sitting there after the copy &amp;amp; paste, (especially at 3:00 a.m.!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When they get close to the final draft, today&#39;s students should be pushed to print their work up, read it out loud looking for typos, and doing a final proof-reading to make corrections. When they have made the corrections, they need to make sure they have the font specified by the professor, and the line-spacing. There are more things to check for in word-processing, even though it &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;looks&lt;/span&gt; neater and, therefore, deceptively as if it &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The title page can be done minimally, or almost graphically designed, if the student is sophisticated enough to understand that it will likely influence the prof&#39;s attitude toward the paper even before he or she reads it. And what about the bibliography? Even if today&#39;s students haven&#39;t taken the time to use Zotero&#39;s many tutorials to learn how to use it to cite, there are ways to make creating a Works Cited or Bibliography section that are much easier than I had it back in the pre-web days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/&quot;&gt;BibMe&lt;/a&gt; is one of the many web-based automatic bibliography-makers that makes this final stage &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;much&lt;/span&gt; easier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;kwout&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/u/sm/eh/rwd_bor_rou_sha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.bibme.org&quot; title=&quot;BibMe - Free Automatic Bibliography Maker (MLA,APA,Chicago,Turabian)&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ;&quot; usemap=&quot;#kwout_usmehrwd&quot; height=&quot;491&quot; width=&quot;608&quot; /&gt;&lt;map name=&quot;kwout_usmehrwd&quot; id=&quot;kwout_usmehrwd&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;266,457,316,466&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/bibliography/privacy_policy&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;188,87,244,124&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/website&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;245,87,300,124&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/journal&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;20,87,75,124&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/book&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;503,1,537,10&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/#&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;551,1,573,10&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/#&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;107,54,209,77&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/#&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;212,137,294,148&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/#&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;132,87,188,124&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/newspaper&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;158,445,277,455&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.bibme.org&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;11,0,206,53&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;11,54,105,77&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;357,87,413,124&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/other&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;308,54,364,77&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/help&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;211,54,275,77&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;276,54,306,77&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/blog&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;205,457,260,466&quot; href=&quot;http://www.greenriver.org/&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;76,87,131,124&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/magazine&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;301,87,356,124&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/film&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;area coords=&quot;365,54,419,77&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/contact&quot; shape=&quot;rect&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/map&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/&quot;&gt;BibMe - Free Automatic Bibliography Maker (MLA,APA,Chicago,Turabian)&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href=&quot;http://kwout.com/quote/usmehrwd&quot;&gt;kwout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Getting to class and turning the essay in isn&#39;t the same either. Some profs, sometimes, accept the essay by email, which means that s soon as today&#39;s student attaches the final file and hits &quot;Send&quot;, it&#39;s bedtime!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the years since I was a student the phenomenological aspect of writing an essay has changed phenomenologically! Do those assigning and/or teaching writing understand that and help the students cope with these differences?&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/7641890323487348162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=7641890323487348162&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/7641890323487348162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/7641890323487348162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2008/01/has-computer-and-web-changed-writing.html' title='Has the Computer and the Web Changed Writing?'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-7992413207753888469</id><published>2008-01-15T10:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T10:50:01.826-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="del.icio.us"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="social_bookmarking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tips"/><title type='text'>del.icio.us - Effective Social Bookmarking</title><content type='html'>One of my favorite aspects of the web is the ability to link to other sites. My favorite part of being able to link to other sites is the capacity to store, organize, and re-find those sites using &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;tagging&lt;/span&gt;, and &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;social bookmarking&lt;/span&gt;. (&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;If you aren&#39;t familiar with these terms and actions, I&#39;ve linked backup information at the bottom of this post.&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As part of collecting and organizing links, I&#39;m always watching for links I can learn from, and share so others can learn from them to (and to avoid unnecessary reinventions of already well-made wheels.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In that vein, I offer this link from Lifehack.org&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/top-10-ways-to-use-delicious.html&quot;&gt;http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/top-10-ways-to-use-delicious.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;tagging - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;social bookmarking - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;WebToolsForLearners&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;tagging - &lt;a href=&quot;http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2007/12/tagging-for-organizing-information.html&quot;&gt;http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2007/12/tagging-for-organizing-information.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;social bookmarking - the indepth version - &lt;a href=&quot;http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2007/08/understanding-social-bookmarking.html&quot;&gt;http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2007/08/understanding-social-bookmarking.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/7992413207753888469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=7992413207753888469&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/7992413207753888469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/7992413207753888469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2008/01/delicious-effective-social-bookmarking.html' title='del.icio.us - Effective Social Bookmarking'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-8746632080162915493</id><published>2008-01-10T12:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-10T12:37:44.653-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Graham_Attwell"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="learning"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PLE"/><title type='text'>Knowledge and Learning - Graham Attwell</title><content type='html'>I find Graham Attwell&#39;s (research-based) thoughts on how learning occurs now fascinating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;width: 425px; 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Beta, a Mac application, is free and a lot of fun. It&#39;s almost worth buying a Mac just to get  a copy;-&gt; I&#39;ve been using it to add pictures to my edublog - &lt;a href=&quot;http://eduspaces.net/vinall/weblog/242653.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://eduspaces.net/vinall/weblog/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It works well with Flickr, my photos, and screenshots. Unfortunately, it isn&#39;t available for PCs yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20080110-85fessn6hee5qjhx7ddhaji6kf.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;&quot; src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20080110-85fessn6hee5qjhx7ddhaji6kf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You can see the screenshots that I simply &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;dragged&lt;/span&gt; onto Skitch, which made them .jpgs, and the two places I could either click to &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;drag&lt;/span&gt; the image onto the desktop or another page, or with two clicks get a Skitch webpage opened - and simply click to copy and paste it into the post using  Blogger&#39;s image icon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20080110-qrhj4238rrcfh2a1w6epp5use4.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;&quot; src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20080110-qrhj4238rrcfh2a1w6epp5use4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;To learn more - go here - &lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/&quot;&gt;http://skitch.com/&lt;/a&gt; - and request your own version - if you are on a Mac.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/1140659032906858437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=1140659032906858437&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/1140659032906858437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/1140659032906858437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2008/01/skitch-easy-tool-for-pictures-macs-only.html' title='Skitch - An Easy Tool for Pictures - Macs Only'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-3088438595582717190</id><published>2008-01-01T16:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-01T16:29:43.562-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="bibliography"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="citations"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="references"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="research"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Styles"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="TOC"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Zotero"/><title type='text'>Using Styles for Academic Papers, &amp; Zotero for Research</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Writing essays, papers, dissertations and other academic pieces is (or should be) radically changed by two tools: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;em&gt;Styles&lt;/em&gt; tool in word-processing;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zotero.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Zotero&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt; researching tool.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Teachers who have your students research and write, take note: your students need to learn how to use these tools, consequently so do you;-&gt; There&#39;s an article on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&amp;amp;id=540&amp;amp;action=article&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Next Generation of Bibliographic Manager&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=issue&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;the latest issue&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://innovateonline.info/index.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Innovate&lt;/a&gt;, a journal of online education. You can register for free and get an email notifying you &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_0&quot;&gt;whenever&lt;/span&gt; a new issue and the related &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_1&quot;&gt;podcasts&lt;/span&gt; are available. I recommend it, especially if you plan on getting further education yourself. (Most of the links to tutorials below come from the article on the bibliographic manager, &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_2&quot;&gt;Zotero&lt;/span&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Styles&lt;/em&gt; Tool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The name of this tool confused me for a long time and I initially avoided it. Luckily, one of my students took the time to explain it to me, and I immediately set out to lean how to use it because I could see how time-saving it would be. Here is a brief explanation of what &lt;em&gt;Styles&lt;/em&gt; is and why it&#39;s so useful: &lt;a href=&quot;http://spot.colorado.edu/%7Ebaileysm/tutorials/Word_Styles_Demo.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://spot.colorado.edu/~baileysm/tutorials/Word_Styles_Demo.htm&lt;/a&gt;  Although this demo is based on &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_3&quot;&gt;MSWord&lt;/span&gt;, a version of &lt;em&gt;Styles&lt;/em&gt;  can be found on the free office software, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_4&quot;&gt;NeoOffice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and on the Mac &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_5&quot;&gt;iWorks&lt;/span&gt; word-processor, &lt;em&gt;Pages&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 492px; height: 341px;&quot; src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20080101-8qmfu53ridmn4apa3mk5wjhi2u.jpg&quot; border=&quot;2&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just the automatically generated and &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_6&quot;&gt;clickable&lt;/span&gt; updating of a &lt;em&gt;Table of Contents&lt;/em&gt; is worth the time it takes to learn how to use &lt;em&gt;Styles&lt;/em&gt;. Not to mention the fact that it is simply part of a professional writer&#39;s &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_7&quot;&gt;skillset&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Managing Research and Creating a Bibliography &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can get a sense of why &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_8&quot;&gt;Zotero&lt;/span&gt; is so important and useful by checking out this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zotero.org/documentation/quick_start_guide&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_9&quot;&gt;Zotero&lt;/span&gt; Quick Start Guide&lt;/a&gt;, especially the two brief videos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 593px; height: 430px;&quot; src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20080101-xt3gjgbea6ahfucnngeg9bfxmn.jpg&quot; border=&quot;2&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While I recommend getting students using &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_10&quot;&gt;Zotero&lt;/span&gt; ASAP, some easier bibliographic tools, without the research &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_11&quot;&gt;component&lt;/span&gt;, are the following:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.easybib.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.easybib.com/&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bibme.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.bibme.org/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;So get ready for writing your own academic pieces and helping your students write theirs by learning about these tools and practising using them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cross published at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.commun-it.org/community/vinall/weblog/663.html&quot;&gt;http://www.commun-it.org/community/vinall/weblog/663.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/3088438595582717190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=3088438595582717190&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/3088438595582717190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/3088438595582717190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2008/01/using-styles-for-academic-papers-zotero.html' title='Using Styles for Academic Papers, &amp; Zotero for Research'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-3986311710250080789</id><published>2007-12-28T09:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-28T09:33:38.534-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cartoon"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="technology"/><title type='text'>The Challenge!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;thumbnail&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/vinall/rgr8/picture-2&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20071228-8jbq6sxrxbi6gt432e27364crm.preview.jpg&quot; 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(or, on Blogger, labelling). You could say that tagging is the child of alphabetical indexing - a post-Gutenberg information management invention - and hyperlinking - a web networking development. You can see what this looks like in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud&quot;&gt;tag cloud&lt;/a&gt; pictured below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;thumbnail&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/vinall/rfty/picture-1&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20071227-8tb1ucp8b1c2ah4s2mjq2jueyj.preview.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Picture 1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: Lucida Grande,Trebuchet,sans-serif,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128);&quot; href=&quot;http://plasq.com/skitch&quot;&gt;Uploaded with Skitch!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29&lt;/a&gt;  (If you want to learn about Web 2.0, you can click on the link to Wikipedia and then click on the various hyperlinked terms in the image to read the Wikipedia definitions. The size indicates how often each is used.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;&quot; &gt;A Very Small History Lesson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;Humans spoke before we wrote and for centuries we dealt with information by remembering, sometimes using memory aids like rhyme, rhythm, and formulaic storytelling. Then writing developed, and people could note down information, and compose stories. Sacred writings passed wisdom along the generational chain, with &quot;books&quot; being tied together into one unit, no matter what their subject matter. A small elite of those who could read and write formed, and were usually part of a priesthood devoted to preserving, accumulating, and passing along the wisdom. All the &quot;books&quot; were hand-copied and some priests had books virtually memorized, but that didn&#39;t create the absolute uniformity that came with the printed word.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;thumbnail&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/vinall/rfit/skitched-20071227-163256&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20071227-q6y9d4ppqb12ig4j24n1at9itf.preview.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;skitched-20071227-163256.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: Lucida Grande,Trebuchet,sans-serif,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128);&quot; href=&quot;http://plasq.com/skitch&quot;&gt;Uploaded with Skitch!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;from - &lt;a href=&quot;http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/4200/4255/printing-press_1.htm&quot;&gt;http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/4200/4255/printing-press_1.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;When the printing press was invented, exact copies could be made, and human interventions, mistakes and alterations didn&#39;t cause variations among copies. Reading, in the European world was still associated with the sacred, although universal literacy was seen as a way to allow everyone to have immediate connection with the Holy Scriptures rather than having to go through a hierarchy of priests. With the growth of universal literacy, many  other developments followed, including the ability  to &quot;read&quot; (and interpret) the same texts differently, which created dissent. People began to reproduce books other than scriptures, and thus  to share and spread philosophical and scientific thought, which sped up &quot;progress&quot; and led to even more differing opinions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For scholars and readers, other developments were built on the uniformity of the books being published using a printing press. In order to avoid reading a whole book while looking for one piece of information, the organizational development that most links (pun intended) to tagging was developed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/4200/4255/printing-press_1.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;thumbnail&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/vinall/rf43/bs00554a&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20071228-xngijy38ewpd4ay4mmpi6xnixp.preview.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;bs00554a&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080&quot; href=&quot;http://plasq.com/skitch&quot;&gt;Uploaded with Skitch!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While information and ideas were being discovered, collected, and  published, readers began to want to read just parts of (non-narrative) books. Now that many people could read books where the pages always stayed the same, it became easier to manage information. Scholars started creating categories, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy&quot;&gt;taxonomies&lt;/a&gt;, so they could find specific information quickly and completely. They began using &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexing&quot;&gt;indexes&lt;/a&gt; at the ends of books, and alphabetizing these indexes; it was worth the time it took for someone to index the information in a book to make it more accessible to the many readers of the book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It quickly became essential for any learner to learn how to use indexes in books and in libraries, and systems of organizing information developed as rigid categories were set up, and people learned how to use them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the arrival of the World Wide Web came the possibilities of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlinking&quot;&gt;hyperlinking&lt;/a&gt;. Taxonomies &amp;amp; alphabetical indexing (top down hierarchically controlled) plus hyperlinking (giving choice in reading/viewing paths)combined and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0&quot;&gt;in Web 2.0&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29&quot;&gt;tagging&lt;/a&gt; was born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I use tagging for my blog posts, to make it easier for readers to search for the topics that interest them. However, the real power of tagging, for me, comes with my online bookmarks. I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del.icio.us&quot;&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt; - to collect website addresses, URLs, for future reference. I use words or phrases that have meaning for me as keywords. Sometimes when I&#39;m adding a site to my del.icio.us account, a tag may be a general topic, like, say, &quot;social_bookmarking&quot; or it might be highly idiosyncratic, like the course code of a course I teach, or I might add both plus the name of a friend whom I&#39;ll send the link to next week, or all of them. For example,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;thumbnail&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/vinall/rf4h/picture-2&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20071228-xcya1m3ctbed6sj5kbjqcskpmr.preview.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Picture 2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080&quot; href=&quot;http://plasq.com/skitch&quot;&gt;Uploaded with Skitch!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I check through the blogs I follow, using my &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregator&quot;&gt;feed reader&lt;/a&gt;, I don&#39;t read them in full, but I do add the relevant ones to &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/shiftingsemiosis&quot;&gt;my del.icio.us account&lt;/a&gt;, and now have an extensive collection of tags -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;thumbnail&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/vinall/rf49/picture-3&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20071228-f418pdudqstagapr3fxjkcfuxi.preview.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Picture 3&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080&quot; href=&quot;http://plasq.com/skitch&quot;&gt;Uploaded with Skitch!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;far more than I can show you in a screen shot. They are an invaluable resource, and they are named for my interests and needs, not according to a rigid and prescribed set of terms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tagging is a new and highly useful way to organize information, a method that didn&#39;t exist, before the web.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/8195515739608811620/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=8195515739608811620&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/8195515739608811620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/8195515739608811620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2007/12/tagging-for-organizing-information.html' title='Tagging - For Organizing Information'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-4910294357126239992</id><published>2007-12-26T11:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-26T12:01:04.623-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="AJCann"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PLE"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Stephen_Downes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="web2.0"/><title type='text'>Understanding PLEs and Learning</title><content type='html'>Through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=42842&quot;&gt;Stephen Downes&#39; OLDaily&lt;/a&gt; I encountered &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight:bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microbiologybytes.com/tutorials/ple/&quot;&gt;What the Heck is a PLE and Why Would I Want One?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. It is aimed at teachers, but students and parents would find its brief, clear explanation of the differences between Course Management Systems (CMS) and Personal Learning Exvironments (VLE) helpful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;width:425px;text-align:left&quot; id=&quot;__ss_191068&quot;&gt;&lt;object style=&quot;margin:0px&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=ple-1196749987693154-2&quot;/&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;/&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;/&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=ple-1196749987693154-2&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.slideshare.net/swf/logo_embd.png&quot; style=&quot;border:0px none;margin-bottom:-5px&quot; alt=&quot;SlideShare&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/AJCann/ple&quot; title=&quot;View &#39;Personal Learning Environments&#39; on SlideShare&quot;&gt;View&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/upload&quot;&gt;Upload your own&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have your sound up when you check it out.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/4910294357126239992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=4910294357126239992&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/4910294357126239992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/4910294357126239992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2007/12/understanding-ples-and-learning.html' title='Understanding PLEs and Learning'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-7987991579478065238</id><published>2007-12-20T13:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-20T13:56:15.315-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Environment"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="TwistImage"/><title type='text'>How Lucky Do You Feel About the Environment?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2166/2124701225_5a21804e7f.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2166/2124701225_5a21804e7f.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/home&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;, (and sorry but I can&#39;t remember whose blog), I discovered an interesting and diverse collection of 2007 videos - one is &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight:bold;&quot;&gt;essential to watch&lt;/span&gt;. Our lives depend on it, - - - and it can be used in schools to teach critical thinking. Here is the link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twistimage.com/share2007/#/Joseph-Jaffe/&quot;&gt;http://www.twistimage.com/share2007/#/Joseph-Jaffe/ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I urge you to watch it and share it!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/7987991579478065238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=7987991579478065238&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/7987991579478065238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/7987991579478065238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-lucky-do-you-feel-about-environment.html' title='How Lucky Do You Feel About the Environment?'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2166/2124701225_5a21804e7f_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-887553516429706191</id><published>2007-12-17T20:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-17T20:41:03.351-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Canadian Copyright"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Michael Geist"/><title type='text'>Canadian Copyright - Educate Yourself!</title><content type='html'>From Michael Geist&#39;s Blog - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2431/125/&quot;&gt;http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2431/125/&lt;/a&gt; - how to take action - and power!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/P8jE31Dp7jo&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;transparent&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/P8jE31Dp7jo&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; wmode=&quot;transparent&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/887553516429706191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=887553516429706191&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/887553516429706191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/887553516429706191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2007/12/canadian-copyright-educate-yourself.html' title='Canadian Copyright - Educate Yourself!'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-5029534746475075045</id><published>2007-12-17T11:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-17T11:13:23.719-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Michael Umphrey"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Stephen Downes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="teaching writing"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="writing"/><title type='text'>The Good and the Bad News About Teaching Writing</title><content type='html'>Now that I am no longer buried in teaching and marking, I can begin to read (and learn) from my favorite blogs again. Here, through a link from my favorite information disseminater, Stephen Downes, is a clear honest evaluation about the state of writing, and teaching writing, and why this is important in the overall scheme of things, by Michael Umphrey. &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight:bold;&quot;&gt;Please&lt;span style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; read it! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.montanaheritageproject.org/index.php/MichaelUmphrey/how_to_improve_the_teaching_of_writing/&quot;&gt;How to Improve the Teaching of Writing/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/5029534746475075045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=5029534746475075045&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/5029534746475075045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/5029534746475075045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2007/12/good-and-bad-news-about-teaching.html' title='The Good and the Bad News About Teaching Writing'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-8416585086332361603</id><published>2007-11-22T20:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-22T20:27:32.179-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A Novel at 14</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT96fAX-UTOjZHMvWNJdZ6KMeC-PSjUzUS71bSa5eINKrHpgo86toaaB_O-zd8bBOQQDGkY_6NZNurkHTCMViKdlDBopKgt-acwKVi5MurzCwmsHpOiD28clcjaLwKgCkyJdQgBw/s1600-h/Picture+1.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT96fAX-UTOjZHMvWNJdZ6KMeC-PSjUzUS71bSa5eINKrHpgo86toaaB_O-zd8bBOQQDGkY_6NZNurkHTCMViKdlDBopKgt-acwKVi5MurzCwmsHpOiD28clcjaLwKgCkyJdQgBw/s320/Picture+1.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135839613630456962&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For about a year and a half I&#39;ve been working with a very bright young woman, now 14 years old. I am pleased and proud to announce that she has recently published her first novel, &lt;span style=&quot;font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;Amelie of the Mitesen&lt;/span&gt;. It is a coming-of-age story set in a fantasy world somewhat similar to that of the Metis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did none of the writing; I simply told her what I thought was well written, and where she needed to add more of a set-up to parts of the story. It is all her ideas and all her words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to order a copy from Lulu.com - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/content/1151511&quot;&gt;http://www.lulu.com/content/1151511&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/8416585086332361603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=8416585086332361603&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/8416585086332361603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/8416585086332361603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2007/11/novel-at-14.html' title='A Novel at 14'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT96fAX-UTOjZHMvWNJdZ6KMeC-PSjUzUS71bSa5eINKrHpgo86toaaB_O-zd8bBOQQDGkY_6NZNurkHTCMViKdlDBopKgt-acwKVi5MurzCwmsHpOiD28clcjaLwKgCkyJdQgBw/s72-c/Picture+1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15790990.post-1795501555021220412</id><published>2007-11-17T23:29:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T23:40:55.451-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="study shadows flowers"/><title type='text'>In My Study</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/shiftingsemiosis/2041729869/&quot; title=&quot;Shadows by Semiotic Explorer, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2008/2041729869_1a22291212.jpg&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;374&quot; alt=&quot;Shadows&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What the sun says in passing ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/shiftingsemiosis/2042529686/&quot; title=&quot;Past Prime by Semiotic Explorer, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2244/2042529686_8357ad648e.jpg&quot; width=&quot;374&quot; height=&quot;500&quot; alt=&quot;Past Prime&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The remains of beauty.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Subscribe&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/feeds/1795501555021220412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15790990&amp;postID=1795501555021220412&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/1795501555021220412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15790990/posts/default/1795501555021220412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com/2007/11/in-my-study.html' title='In My Study'/><author><name>Joan Vinall-Cox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa7IDzNaMrFXAfkKCnq0FQDOAbbcjlhrwHiawpg2RgUT8j0ZdiB_xhQ7pICFosBsaNyhFZOLXbJmH7a5aNJVs4fuRl9SDFapDVtNvcyp6n6O_zPe5okbPdLHMozDOgOU/s220/JVCself.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2008/2041729869_1a22291212_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

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