Though Twitter’s founders originally conceived of the site as a way to stay in touch with acquaintances, it turns out that it is better for broadcasting ideas or questions and answers to the outside world or for marketing a product.
Teaching the Quarantined - good article about how the Univ. of Michigan is preparing to serve students who may contract the H1N1 virus this coming year
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paper describes effective andragogical methods for
adult instruction. It will also present the
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They've become so used to this informal language, that they cannot write formally when they need to.
If you look at texting as a bad thing towards talking and ruining face to face communication skills, then lets take a look at that. If they're texting you, but won't talk to you face to face, maybe they haven't had very good confrontational skills to begin with, maybe that person wouldn't be talk to you at all if he/she didn't have texting as a way to talk to you.