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The full-text of this book, ed Terry Anderson, published by Athabasca University in 2008, is available for download in its entirety or by chapter, as PDF. Chapters 2 and 4 are bookmarked in our collection.

An online homework and grading tool.

By Stephanie Banchero, The Wall Street Journal, April, 21, 2010. At the annual meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges, officials pledge to boost student completion rates 50% over the next decade.

This special issue of the London Review of Education, 8 (1) 2010, looks at virtual learning. Co-editors are Gwyneth Hughes and Martin Oliver (affiliated with London Knowledge Lab). Full text articles are available for purchase from this page (publisher site). Check with your local library for full text articles.

By Michelle Pacansky-Brock on VoiceThread. Many comments support this VoiceThread presentation.

Lisa picked out two VoiceThread examples of how professors use this tool in their classes.

from Professor Russ Meade. On VoiceThread Community Digital Library. There is a description and assignment to support this VoiceThread.

Another VoiceThread selected by Lisa and shared in December Coffeeklatch.

In Text Citations: The Basics on Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

RS showed page in class, week 6 (Paper 2), semester 3

By Alexia Tsotsis for TechCrunch, August 18 2011. Kibin, a new startup, runs an editing "community" where users can edit each other's work for free (earning points for editing others' work; paying in points for having your own work edited). Users can also buy Kibin credits (rather than bartering) in order to have their work edited.

R.A. posted this as she is "wondering what role the teaching of grammar and mechanics will play in our future curricular decisions. Will we be focusing on critical thinking and rhetorical strategies instead, as areas where computers and online editors will be less useful?"