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Vanessa Vaile

Email Etiquette - Purdue OWL - 0 views

  • Summary: Although instant and text/SMS messaging is beginning to supplant email for some groups' primary means of Internet communication, effective and appropriate email etiquette is still important. This resource will help you to become an effective writer and reader/manager of email.
  • How do I compose an email to someone I don't know?
  • a meaningful subject line
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  • open your email with a greeting
  • Use standard spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.
  • clear, short paragraphs and be direct and to the point
  • friendly and cordial, but don't try to joke around
  • guides for continuing email conversations?
  • respond within a reasonable time frame
  • Trim back the old messages
  • If someone asks a lot of questions, it may be OK to embed your answers into the sender's message copied at the bottom of your email. However, if you're going to do this, be sure to say so at the top, and leave generous space, for example:
  • What sorts of information shouldn't be sent via email?
  • attachments?
  • Email Listservs and Discussion Groups Poor email behavior is always cropping up on email listservs and discussion groups. Here are some common mistakes to avoid:
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    because no matter how many tech toys we sign up for, we're still using  and it is often our "first contact" form
TESOL CALL-IS

Vocaroo | Record and send voice emails - 0 views

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    Very simple interface and good clear audio make this online app an easy way for students to practice speaking. Can be sent by email or posted on the Internet to a Website, or linked to from the Vocaroo site.
Vanessa Vaile

Top Topic Trackers (Updated List) - 0 views

  • leading topic-tracking tools on the Web.
  • Feed and/or Email Services
  • These are services that output RSS and/or other formats, such as email notification. We think this type of topic feed tool is the most flexible
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  • particularly when it outputs RSS.
  • Social Filter
  • Destination Services
  • don't output RSS or emails for topic searches.
  • filtering or grouping of the feeds inside an RSS reader
  • People Curated
  • Community Curated
  • Topic-focused blogs (such as ReadWriteWeb!) are great for tracking topics
  • light blogging service
  • easy way for individuals or small groups of people to curate information on a given topic
  • "topic hubs" for bloggers.
  • Aggregators / Portals
  • aggregate, or group, news and other stories around a specific topic
  • Market Intelligence
  • professional brand management services
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How to use Keek from R. Stannard's Teacher Training Videos - 0 views

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    A video on how to use Keek to make and share short video messages. Although limited to only 36 secs, this might be a good application for beginning learners, or for a quick pronunciation quiz (you will see who is taking that quiz!) You can also embed a finished recording in your blog or wiki, as well as sending it by email. A good way to have students create a short, practiced conversation. Also has smartphone apps for mobile recordings, RSS feed to follow, and links to Facebook, Yahoo, and Twitter.
TESOL CALL-IS

Free email newsletter service | TinyLetter - 0 views

  • Write an email newsletter. Start your own newsletter instantly with TinyLetter. Then tell people to subscribe to it. Then write whatever you want, whenever you want, and we'll send it to them. Also, it's free.
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    This looks like a fun way to keep in touch with sstudents, or have them subscribe to each other's work. You write a newsletter, then select "friends" to mail to, or send them a subscription link.
Vanessa Vaile

Does the Internet Promote New Forms of Communication? | HASTAC - 0 views

  • It is often remarked that email causes many problems because people often send emails as if it were oral communication (with a loose form of control) and receive them as if they are written communication (as if they are carefully crafted).  
  • ead by both "audience members" and the "author," and in different ways and in different
  • contexts.
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  • The speech act that is Internet communication is remarkably complex and comes with a variety of situational and cultural rules. 
  • locked-in syndrome
  • (Do we write in a different way with a pen than with a keyboard? In 140 characters?  In a term paper versus a blog?
  • who creates the protocols of communication and how
  • really unpack what communication and what it does on its most fundamental levels.
TESOL CALL-IS

Nik Peachey's Presentation - The Online Educator - 0 views

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    Links to Nik Peachey's "Developing materials and practices for the digital generation," a webinar presentation for the IATEFL Young Learner SIG. Nik focses on how teacher can combine online tools to encourage students' digital literacy and linguistic skills more autonomously. Both a recording of the presentation (Adobe Connect) and the slides are linked, as well as links to some of his recent informative blog posts.
Vanessa Vaile

What is a PLN? Or, PLE vs. PLN? : open thinking - 0 views

  • I have used the term Personal Learning Network (PLN) dozens of times over the last few years, and have seen it mentioned countless times in blog and microblog posts, and other forms of media. However, I cannot seem to find a solid reference or definition for the concept of PLN.
  • I thought it was appropriate to ask the question to my PLN (or what I perceive as my PLN) via Twitter. I asked if anyone had a definition for a PLN, or if they knew the difference between a personal learning network and personal learning environment (PLE). I received varied responses, and the majority of these are pasted below. To make more sense of this conversation, read these from the very bottom to the top as they are in reverse chronological order.
  • From a simple question on Twitter, I received dozens of twitter replies, direct messages, and email responses. While I am still having trouble defining exactly what this is, I know that what I observe to be my PLN has dramatically changed the way I view teaching, communities, and the negotiation and formation of knowledge.
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  • 32 Responses to “What is a PLN? Or, PLE vs. PLN?”
Vanessa Vaile

News: Harnessing Social Media - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • There was always more potentially relevant information out in the world than people could ever hope to know. But Twitter, Facebook, social bookmarking sites, and countless other content streams and conversation threads — constantly available in the era of wireless networks and mobile computing — have thrust many in academe into an endless, unwinnable race to keep up.
  • At a session on Friday here at the Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning, called “Managing the Flow of Information,” a roomful of higher ed technologists commiserated about the information assault and discussed how to figure out what information to ignore without abnegating their obligation to stay current.
  • While some instructors might take the sight of students typing on keyboards and smartphones as a sign of chronic inattention, the authors of this study take it as the opposite.
Maria Rosario Di Mónaco

5 Google Buzz Tips for the Advanced User - 2 views

  • 2. Hide Your Buzz Contact List from Prying Eyes
  • This isn't all that different from FriendFeed expect for one important fact: on FriendFeed you picked and chose who your friends were, but your Buzz contacts are added for you automatically based on who you email the most. If that's not information you want to share, here's how to turn it off:
  • Sign into your Google account via Gmail (or any other Google service) Go to your Google profile here: http://google.com/profiles/me Click the link at the top-right of the screen that reads "Edit Profile" Here, you'll see a checkbox that reads "Display the list of people I'm following and people following me." To make this info private, just uncheck that box. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the "Save changes" button
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    Thanks Maria...great tip
Vanessa Vaile

Digital Office Hours - 0 views

  • Instant messaging (IM) services like AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger make it possible for you to chat in real-time with friends, colleagues, and students.
  • But do you really want to have all of these different tools open at once? Probably not. In order to cut down on applications or screens that you have open on your desktop, you can use an IM aggregrator.
  • Digsby allows you not only to manage all of your IM streams, but also works as an email manager for web-based mail and as an interface for social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook
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  • Google Talk chatback badges. The badge is a short snippet of HTML that I can plug into any of my course-related websites, and the result is that anyone who visits the website can click on the chatbox to start a conversation with me–(1) whether they have a Google Talk account or not or (2) whether or not they know my IM account name.
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