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Patricia Cone

Tip 109 - iFake Text - 0 views

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     I believe "iFake Text" is a great example of  a simple tool that can allow your students to show what they know in a unique or novel way by emulating a text message conversation on an iPhone. Tammy Worcester
Donna DesRoches

Canadian Centre for Child Protection - - 0 views

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    "Designed for students in Grade 7 and higher, the textED.ca website provides a fun, interactive platform for children to learn about the short-term costs and the long-term ramifications associated with texting."
Patricia Cone

TextED - 0 views

Patricia Cone

Tutorial - Adding Text With Microsoft Paint - 0 views

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    Adding Text With Microsoft Paint
Patricia Cone

Point N See - 0 views

  • Speed Reading III
    • Patricia Cone
       
      Ooops I've bookmarked the wrong page, but I've highlighted the right link.
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    There are lots of amazing software here for download.  I was looking at Speed Reading 111 (Mac).    The text is small (I'm tutoring people with reading problems) but I set my screen to a different resolution and the print was bigger.  
Patricia Cone

Free Online OCR - 0 views

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    Free Online OCR is a free service that allows you to easily convert scanned documents, faxes, screenshots and photos into editable and searchable text, such as DOC, TXT or PDF.
Donna DesRoches

YouTube - Disconnect to connect - 1 views

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    a wonderful little video about being in the moment
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    a great little video to share parents, students, etc..
Morag Riddell

A Video on How to Use Glogster - 0 views

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    Glogster is a site which lets you create a digital poster that incorporates pictures, text, sound, graphics, and even video.
Donna DesRoches

Fear of Screens - The New Inquiry - 0 views

    • Donna DesRoches
       
      I think that the use of the tools that technology now allows such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram enable us to be more empathetic - e.g. the outpouring of support for #laloche.  Facebook and Twitter helped create connections that allowed people to then get together face-to-face to grieve and provide support.
  • Turkle too often assumes screen-mediated communication comes in only one flavor, which cannot grasp the complexities of our always augmented sociality, to say nothing of how screens are differently used by those with different abilities.
  • We should not conceptually preclude or discount all the ways intimacy, passion, love, joy, pleasure, closeness, pain, suffering, evil and all the visceral actualities of existence pass through the screen. “Face to face” should mean more than breathing the same air.
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  • This screen-mediated communication is face-to-face, in person, physical, and close in so many important ways, and distant in only one
  • The camp study, relying on shoddy methods and inaccurate conclusions, exemplifies how cultural fears and emotional appeals can facilitate the spread of unsubstantiated claims, cloaked in science.”
  • Why this presumption of doom?
  • How do you look at everyday people using digital devices to communicate with one another and suppose that they may not even know what conversation and friendship are?
  • hat people who text more often also meet face to face more; that the contemporary technologies of social isolation were, and are, the television and the automobile, not smart phones; that there’s been a recent reversal of the long post–World War II trend toward social isolation.
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