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JeBr CaWi

room4-wiki - home - 1 views

room4-wiki.wikispaces.com

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  • JeBr CaWi on 25 Sep 10
     
    This is an example of a collaborative story-writing wiki that anyone can add to - very interesting...
JeBr CaWi

Digg Tries to Regain Its Momentum - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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digg momentum

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  • The initiative is intended to group Digg’s users by interest and, the company hopes, generate new revenue.
  • In a world where Facebook’s traffic has proved worrisome even to digital titans like Google, finding a niche as an alternative social network is an increasingly quixotic task.
JeBr CaWi

Wikipedia: What's in it for Teachers? | Tama Leaver dot Net - 0 views

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wikipedia pedagogy

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  • will almost always be in the first few items returned. And far from a flash in the pan, on January 15 2010, the W
  • th birthday, now encompassing more than 10 million articles spanning over 250 different languages. Yet, for teachers and academics the Wikipedia can be a constant source of concern as students increasingl
  • From the outset, it is useful to remember that the Wikipedia is just one example, albeit the most well-known, of a website which uses wiki software. A wi
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  • kipedia is just one example, albeit the most well-known, of a website which uses wiki software
    • JeBr CaWi
      JeBr CaWi on 25 Sep 10
       
      wiki is a type of software; it isn't just Wikipedia.  There are other networks you can use to create a wiki like pbworks
  • If you’re interested in trying out a wiki, or using a free wiki in teaching, pbworks.com is a good place to start, providing basic wiki functionality for free (and more comprehensive tools for teaching for a fee).
  • Since the range of articles in the Wikipedia is largely dependant on the interest of contributors (referred to as Wikipedians), the coverage is often uneven; popular culture, recent historical events, and technical issues tend to be very well represented while less topical or more geographically-specific material can be sparse.
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      JeBr CaWi on 25 Sep 10
       
      based on interest; democratic made by the peopl
  • aving any credibility whatsoever, this presumption has actually been tested far less often than it should be. I
  • made 13 deliberate errors, some obvious and some obscure. He predicted that within two weeks many of these errors would remain undetected. However, within several hours, all of the deliberate errors were identified by other Wikipedians and those errors were removed.
  • ing that one of the functions all registered Wikipedia users have access to is something called a Watch
JeBr CaWi

HOW TO: Gracefully Promote Yourself Online - 0 views

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online promotion

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  • in this overly saturated cesspool we call the Internet (), what we’re really talking about here is the delicate art of self-promotion. If you want to earn eyeballs, buzz or cash dolla bills for something you’ve dreamed up, using social media is pretty much a must (and a topic taken on by plenty of writers before us).
  • Self-promotion is an art, not a science
  • JeBr CaWi on 25 Sep 10
     
    Since all of us are creating professional websites, I thought this article would be fitting.  It describes how you should portray yourself online to get noticed.
JeBr CaWi

Zotero, the Best Way to "Cite Your Sources," Now Available Everywhere - 0 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...ite_your_sources_now_avail.php

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  • Zotero is a free, open-source research management tool that helps you gather, organize and analyze your sources.
  • we academics wrote down bibliographic details on note cards and the like, and cursed when we couldn't recall which journal or hadn't recorded which page we'd found that excellent quotation. (Not to mention the cursing as we assembled our citations and bibliographies). Research and writing has, of course, changed, and Zotero is one tool that recognizes that much research nowadays occurs in the web-browser.
    • JeBr CaWi
      JeBr CaWi on 25 Sep 10
       
      Now we can organize everything online?
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  • Zotero is a citation manager, designed to store and manage bibliographic references, such as books and articles.
    • JeBr CaWi
      JeBr CaWi on 25 Sep 10
       
      Now you can organize all of your information online.  
  • Zotero is a browser-based tool that allows you to capture publication information as you surf. Zotero extracts bibliographic data from websites but can also capture whole pages, attached files, and full text as well
    • JeBr CaWi
      JeBr CaWi on 25 Sep 10
       
      You can use it with online databases as well!
    • JeBr CaWi
      JeBr CaWi on 25 Sep 10
       
      Very cool and informative video on how to use Zotero
  • JeBr CaWi on 25 Sep 10
     
    Introduces and explains Zotero, tool that helps you store, cite, and manage articles online
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