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Rebecca Davis

Speaking Truth to Papers - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • As we talked, and I read through the samples he had, it became apparent to me that Vaughan's real commitment to this mode of responding to papers relates more to the conversational tone of his responses than to the time-saving element of it.
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    Very cool example for giving feedback on papers
Rebecca Davis

'Flocking' behavior lands on social networking sites - USATODAY.com - 0 views

  • He's also troubled because he says educators are shortchanging kids by not warning them about the potential dangers, including Facebook addiction
  • I analyzed my (Twitter) followers and was amazed at what you can find out about me and who my networks are with. You can't escape your past. That's a real danger of social networking sites," he says.
Rebecca Davis

50 Terrific Twitter Tutorials for Teachers | Online Colleges - 0 views

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    yet another index of twitter stuff, but I think there are ideas and examples, too
Rebecca Davis

How Direct Messaging (DM) trumps Instant Messaging (IM) | urban turban guy's blog - 0 views

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    another reason I love twitter--I hate those unwanted pings that interrupt me when I'm working
Rebecca Davis

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview. - 0 views

  • Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era focuses on the creation of short-form prose that is not intended to be reproduced on pulp fibers.
  • Instant messaging. Twittering. Facebook updates. These 21st-century literary genres are defining a new "Lost Generation" of minimalists
  • Throughout the course, a further paring down of the Hemingway/Stein school of minimalism will be emphasized, limiting the superfluous use of nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, gerunds, and other literary pitfalls.
Rebecca Davis

The View from Here: The Geoblogosphere in 2009 - Articles - 0 views

  • There are not only more voices, but more people have "gotten bored," as my friends noted, and whittled down the blogs they read. Further, instead of using aggregators as much, they use their selected blogs to find other blogs or posts of interest
  • fewer popular blogs dominate the geoblogosphere. Instead, I think, more blogs each have more readers. In short, the readers are spread among many other blogs.
  • Instead, the responsibility to "find the good stuff" is falling back to the consumer.
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  • That brings me to my second observation on blogs in 2009. People are not commenting on blogs as they once did.
  • My third observation is the increased interest in Twittering about a topic/event versus covering it via a blog or article.
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    interesting commentary on changes in blogging and twitter
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