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Paul Beaufait

The Plagiarism Checker - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 27 Dec 08
     
    Thanks to Joao for pointing this out.
  • Paul Beaufait on 27 Dec 08
     
    Free text checking interface from the University of Maryland (U.S.)
anamaria menezes

Fab French at Windy Nook Primary School - 0 views

www.fabfrench.org

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shared by anamaria menezes on 30 May 08 - Cached
  • anamaria menezes on 30 May 08
     
    a wonderful example of how Web 2.0 tools can enhance language learning and engage pupils.
Paul Beaufait

Athabasca University Press - The Theory and Practice of Online Learning - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 06 Aug 08
     
    "Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added" (2008.08.07).
  • Paul Beaufait on 06 Aug 08
     
    Electronic versions are available for free under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada licensing.
Carla Arena

Web 1.0 x Web 2.0 - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 09 Jul 08
     
    Interesting article. Worth reading it. In fact, First Monday is an excellent online publication site.
Paul Beaufait

7 Things You Should Know About Ning | EDUCAUSE CONNECT - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 10 Jun 08
     
    One of the latest publications in the ELI "Seven Things You Should Know About..." series
  • Paul Beaufait on 10 Jun 08
     
    Abstract: Ning is an online service that allows users to create their own social networks and join and participate in other networks. No technical skill is required to set up a social network, and there are no limits to the number of networks a user can join. Users of Ning social networks have access to functionality similar to that of more well-known social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace. Various features allow users to read news or learn about related events, join groups, read and comment on blog entries, view photos and videos, and other activities as set up by the network creator. RSS feeds let users subscribe to updates from specific parts of the social network.
Carla Arena

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - 0 views

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shared by Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08 - Cached
  • hyperlinks don’t merely point to related works; they propel you toward them.)
  • They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
  • “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins
  • ...15 more annotations...
  • We are not only what we read
  • We are how we read
  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace
  • Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      So, how can we still use "power browsing" and teach our students to interpret, analyze, think.
  • The human brain is almost infinitely malleable. People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neurons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood. But brain researchers have discovered that that’s not the case
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      That's what a student of mine, who is a neurologist, calls neuroplasticity.
  • Still, their easy assumption that we’d all “be better off” if our brains were supplemented, or even replaced, by an artificial intelligence is unsettling. It suggests a belief that intelligence is the output of a mechanical process, a series of discrete steps that can be isolated, measured, and optimized. In Google’s world, the world we enter when we go online, there’s little place for the fuzziness of contemplation. Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed. The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      Scary...
  • It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      more hyperlinking, more possibilites for ads, more commercial value to others...
  • The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
  • If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with “content,” we will sacrifice something important not only in our selves but in our culture.
  • I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.”
  • As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.”
  • Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
     
    I bought the Atlantic just because of this article and just loved it. It has an interesting analysis of what is happening to our reading, questions what might be happening to our brains, and it inquires on the future of our relationship with technology. Are we just going to become "pancake people"? Would love to hear what you think.
Paul Beaufait

Learning technology teacher development blog: Using wikis with EFL students - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 15 Sep 08
     
    "This tutorial shows you how simple it is to edit the wiki (2008.05.29), and suggests ways of using wikis with students.
  • Paul Beaufait on 15 Sep 08
     
    One in a series: Related posts * How to create a wiki * Using wikis for teacher development
Paul Beaufait

Resource: English Composition: Writing for an Audience - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 10 Jul 08
     
    "A video instructional series on English composition for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 26 half-hour video programs and coordinated books" (2008.07.10)
  • Paul Beaufait on 10 Jul 08
     
    Thanks to Ronaldo for bookmarking this already. I found it in his recent bookmarks after he'd joined the LwC group.
Paul Beaufait

Turn Google Docs Into an RSS Reader and Feed Aggregator - 0 views

www.labnol.org/...3527

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  • Paul Beaufait on 16 Jul 08
     
    Live illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and video demonstration - Final products perhaps aren't as glamorous as Pageflakes or the like, but you certainly can make-do without another account/sign-in if you already do Google.
  • Paul Beaufait on 16 Jul 08
     
    Thanks to Claudia (fceblog) for adding this tutorial to her Del.icio.us collection
marina alfonso

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - 0 views

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  • a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
    • marina alfonso
      marina alfonso on 01 Jul 08
       
      We also have tagcrow.com
  • Carla Arena on 17 Jun 08
     
    Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
Carla Arena

100 Useful Web Tools for Writers | College Degrees - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 14 Jul 08
     
    Excellent resource. I'm sure you'll find something interesting.
Paul Beaufait

edudiigo » home - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 30 Jul 08
     
    "No changes in the last 30 days" (2008.07.30)
Carla Arena

The Bamboo Project Blog: Professional Development Practice: The One Sentence Journal - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 17 Jun 08
     
    This idea is doable and a great starter for newbies. Inspiring!
Carla Arena

budtheteacher » Twitter Me This - TIE 2008 - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 17 Jun 08
     
    Nice reference of for Twitter users
Carla Arena

Chatterous | Chat - 0 views

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shared by Carla Arena on 17 Jun 08 - No Cached
  • Carla Arena on 17 Jun 08
     
    It creates a room for participants to chat. With RSS. Very cool!
Holly Dilatush

Share your Blogging Experience and Tips For Educators New To Blogging | The Edublogger - 0 views

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  • Holly Dilatush on 19 Jun 08
     
    an awesome link with lots of rich posts and links for reflection; check it out! Add your brilliant insights?
  • Holly Dilatush on 19 Jun 08
     
    a _must_ revisit blog post -- check it out, check a few links, revisit, reflect, post your own comment, try -- reflect --
Carla Arena

The Web2.0 in 64 seconds at The Journey - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 18 Jun 08
     
    Dear all, I'd like to invite you to take part in this wonderful project called Web2.0Wednesday . Join us! Fun, enriching, connected. This is my first production based on the task proposed for this Wednesday. How would you define the Web2.0 in one minute?
Holly Dilatush

Other Adult Learning Videos - 0 views

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  • Holly Dilatush on 19 Jun 08
     
    a growing compilation of videos useful for adult education purposes.
  • Holly Dilatush on 19 Jun 08
     
    Hello all, not sure what happened the last time I tried to edit this note -- it disappeared? Anyway, apologies if you receive this twice... and please check mlots.org and the 'other' tab. David Rosen is a longtime online mentor of mine -- check out the nifl.gov listservs archives for rich info, too.
Carla Arena

learningwithcomputers07 wiki / online_bookmarking2 - 0 views

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  • Carla Arena on 20 Jun 08
     
    Hi, guys. I've just posted our second week on our wiki, though we're still on week 1. Just for the ones who like to play around during the weekend. Thanks for the wonderful contribution on week 1! This is truly a social bookmarking experience. Let's keep digging Diigo. Carla and Susana.
Paul Beaufait

criticalanalysis.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 20 Aug 08
     
    Great listen about critical thinking for writing
  • Paul Beaufait on 20 Aug 08
     
    Gleaned from May post on Blogging for Educators 2008
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