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11 Non-Traditional Uses of WordPress - 0 views

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the end result is a moderated directory
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reate a directory on your website or blog where users can submit information about themselves or their business.
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ort of image bookmarking service for those who have access
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RecruitPress is a fee job board option.
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Build a ‘WordBurner’ Email Newsletter Manager Using WordPress and FeedBurner.
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hosting a forum on your site,
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contact manager.
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WordPress Wiki is a premium theme ($30)
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review site
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WP e-Commerce is a surprisingly powerful free plugin that will allow you to sell items through your WordPress-powered site or blog.
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J Black on 02 Mar 09

In this article we'll take a look at a combination of tutorials, plugins and themes that can help you to use WordPress in non-traditional ways. Hopefully you'll find something that you can use, or at least something that will be a valuable learning resource for extending your knowledge and skills of working with WordPress.

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6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book - 1 views

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Users are able to use Google Book Search (Beta), which puts your book content in Google’s search results.
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Lulu allows you to create a variety of books, but also lets you develop digital media. These range from music and ringtones to videos and e-books. With Lulu, you can also scan and digitize your old books, albums, and photos
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Softcovers start at $7.60
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To increase your search ranking, you are able to add subtitles, tags, categories, and descriptions
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Softcovers start at $12.95
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. Because CreateSpace is a subsidiary of Amazon, it’s easier and quicker to sell your book through Amazon
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Standard B&W starts at $3.66 per book; Standard Color starts at $6.55. You can also upgrade to their Pro Plan, which is $39.00 per book. The Pro Plan allows you to keep more from each sale, and pay less when ordering copies.
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Prices start at $0.045 per page and a $4 binding fee.
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WeBook combines the joys of self publishing with social media. You are able to write a book alone or collaborate with other writers. The site provides an online text editor for you to write, and you are able to add images from image-hosting sites like Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, etc.
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J Black on 02 Mar 09

Here are six great sites that will help you publish your work, guaranteeing you a published book that can be sold via different outlets, such as Amazon.

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Versatile, Immersive, Creative and Dynamic Virtual 3-D Healthcare Learning Environments... - 0 views

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Virtual 3-D Healthcare Learning Environments
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The author provides a critical overview of three-dimensional (3-D) virtual worlds and “serious gaming” that are currently being developed and used in healthcare professional education and medicine.
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Roger’s Diffusion of Innovations Theory
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Siemens’ Connectivism Theory
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accelerating momentum
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there are some fundamental questions which remain unanswered.
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it is beneficial to address while the race to adopt and implement highly engaging Web 3-D virtual worlds is watched in healthcare professional education
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Therefore, Roger’s Diffusion of Innovations Theory [5] and Siemens’ Connectivism Theory [6] for today’s learners will serve as theoretical frameworks for this paper.
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A 3-D virtual world, also known as a Massively Multiplayer Virtual World (MMVW), is an example of a Web 2.0/Web 3-D dynamic computer-based application.
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applications that enable social publishing, such as blogs and wikis
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the most popular virtual world used by the general public is Linden Lab’s Second Life (SL)
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Who would imagine attending medical school in a virtual world?
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US agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health conduct meetings in SL to discuss the educational potential of SL
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virtual medical universities exist all over the world
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The term “avatar” is an old Sanskrit word portraying a deity which takes on a human shape
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Virtual worlds are currently being used as educational spaces [1] and continue to grow in popularity on campuses and businesses worldwide. Furthermore, access to versions of virtual worlds on the Web, such as “Croquet,” “Uni-Verse,” and “Multiverse” are predicted within two to three years to be mainstream in education
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there are reported advantages to having students engage in these emerging technologies
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By allowing students time to interact with other avatars (eg, patients, staff members, and other healthcare professionals) in a safe, simulated environment, a decrease in student anxiety, an increase in competency in learning a new skill, and encouragement to cooperate and collaborate, as well as resolve conflicts, is possible.
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High quality 3-D entertainment that is freely accessible via Web browsing facilitates engagement opportunities with individuals or groups of people in an authentic manner that illustrates collective intelligence
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Advanced Learning and Immersive Virtual Environment (ALIVE) at the University of Southern Queensland
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health information island
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Problem-based learning groups enrolled in a clinical management course at Coventry University meet in SL and are employed to build learning facilities for the next semester of SL students. This management course teaches students to manage healthcare facilities and is reported to be the first healthcare-related class to use SL as a learning environment.
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Another example of a medical school using SL is St. George’s Medical School in London.
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Stanford University medical school
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Another virtual world project developed by staff at the Imperial College in London, in collaboration with the National Physical Lab in the United Kingdom, is the Second Health Project
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Mesko [35] presents the top 10 virtual medical sites in SL.
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The development and use of 3-D virtual worlds in nursing education is increasing.
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Some educators may balk at adopting this technology because there is a learning curve associated with the use of 3-D virtual worlds.
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Let’s have fun, explore these fascinating worlds and games, and network with others while respecting diverse ways of life-long learning and current researchers’ findings.
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there is an underlying push in higher education to adopt these collaborative tools and shift the paradigm from a traditional Socratic method of education to one possessing a more active and interactive nature
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One may view online virtual worlds and serious gaming as a threat to the adoption and purchase of high-fidelity computerized patient-simulation mannequins that are currently purchased for healthcare-profession training. For example, nurses may login into SL and learn Advanced Cardiac Life Support at their convenience, and it costs virtually nothing for the nurse and perhaps a nominal fee for the developer.
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The educational opportunity in SL may not be a replacement for the doctor- or nurse-patient interaction or relationship, but SL may serve as an adjunct or pre- or post-learning tool.
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one recalls when critics questioned the validity and reliability of the stethoscope invented by Laennec in 1816 and how today it is second nature to use this assessment tool.
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2006 health fair
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21CIF: 21st Century Information Fluency - 0 views

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Power Searching In a Web 2.0 world. ($99 Fee 5 CEUs) New to this site? Click the course title and you will be able to create an account and register for this 4 week facilitated class! Contact: Dennis O'ConnorOpen for enrollment! Begins February 9, 2009Login as Guest to view!
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Introduction to Google Documents: Collaborate & Share Enroll now! February 9, 2009 1 - 5 (5 Days | One Week) 5 CDPUs Learn to use Google Word Processing Documents for productivity and collaboration. Trouble creating your account? E-Mail: wiredinstructor@gmail.comLogin as Guest to view!
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Dennis OConnor on 06 Feb 09

21st Century Information Fluency Project Online Course Page: Lists 1 - 4 week courses in search skills and google docs

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Met Any Good Authors Lately? Classroom author visits can happen via Skype (here's a lis... - 49 views

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Times Higher Education - From where I sit - Everyone wins in this free-for-all - 11 views

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The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.
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But while in our research we have no problem with sharing and building on the ideas of others, in education the perception is that we must lock teaching materials behind restrictive copyright barriers that minimise sharing.
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Sometimes universities justify this position on the grounds that the open licensing of courses will damage their advantage in the student recruitment market. These publicly funded institutions expect taxpayers to pay twice for learning materials.
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Individuals are free to learn from OER hosted on the open web. It is, therefore, plausible that we can design and develop an "OER university" that will provide free learning for all students worldwide.
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Working with Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, the University of Southern Queensland in Australia and Athabasca University in Canada as founding anchor partners, we aim to help provide flexible pathways for OER learners to earn formal academic credentials and pay reduced fees for assessment and credit services under the community service mission of modern universities.
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The OER Foundation will host an open planning meeting on 23 February to lay the foundations for this significant intervention. With support from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, the meeting will be streamed on the web, and we invite all educational leaders to join us at this meeting in planning for the mainstream adoption of OER in post-secondary institutions.
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Tero Toivanen on 11 Feb 11

The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.</div>

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Online Homeschooling Programs, Home School Programs, Homeschooling - 0 views

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Sotomayor Takes Active Role on Court's First Day - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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when police asked him about allegations in another case: that he had sexually abused his 3-year-old son.
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  Does the nature of this crime affect your judgement in this case? Do you think the justices look at the nature of the case?
  
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This time, he waived his Miranda rights and made incriminating statements that led to his conviction.
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  Should all suspects have to answer questions in the prescense of a lawyer? Who would pay the legal fees?
  
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It pointed to a 28-year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision that said once a suspect asks for an attorney, "he is not subject to further questioning until a lawyer has been made available or the suspect himself reinitiates conversation."
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