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Vanessa Vaile

Media Habit - 0 views

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  • the most modern communication tools — blogs, podcasts, YouTube — are actually returning us to an ancient form of media, one in which everyone participates on almost equal footing.
  • fundamental human urge to tell our own stories
  • Before mass media, before the written word — for all of human history — story-telling was a shared privilege.
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  • Mass media succeeded in creating a common culture, but did nothing to foster the communities that naturally emerge when people tell their stories to each other.
  • Now, finally, there is a counter-trend.
  • Howard Rheingold framed it beautifully, when he wrote The Virtual Community, nearly 15 years ago: "Perhaps cyberspace is one of those informal public places, where people can rebuild the aspects of community that were lost when the malt shop became a mall."
  • newest digital technologies are returning us to the most ancient form of media — one in which a natural order is restored; our individual stories take center stage
TESOL CALL-IS

messagehop - 1 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 02 Feb 11 - No Cached
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    Upload pictures, write text, and the program animates the message, and plays it as a sequence, then sends it to friends. Nice short writing assignment or digital story-telling adventure. Rec. by Russell Stannard.
Vanessa Vaile

The PLN Staff Lounge - 2 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 28 Feb 10 - Cached
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      Vanessa Vaile on 28 Feb 10
       
      OK most points but re pt #: I need to clean up follower list & boot off spammers. which is better, checking as new followers sign on or schedule regular list purging sessions?
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      Vanessa Vaile on 28 Feb 10
       
      next thought. question I could use feed back on: how to use a twitter account for multiple purposes, e.g. professional (whatever that is for someone retired), community, personal, special interest (advocacy, avocation research), etc. Not including elements of personal in "professional" affects voice, makes it too institutional. Tweets are a writing genre and voice counts. 
  • 4) You have lots of spammers following you
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  • how to use it to build a PLN (personal learning network)
  • My Top Ten Twitter Turn-Off's
  • 1) No profile, or profile picture
  • Your profile tells people who you are
  • If you decide to add a link to your profile, make sure it is not a dead link, an under construction page, an affiliate shop, or a page which launches pop up windows
  • 2) No tweets
  • 3) Hiding your tweets
  • 5) You only ever tweet stuff about your daily life
  • 10) Being overly-self promotional
  • 6) You mainly tweet stuff about yourself
  • 7) You are mainly using Twitter to sell or promote something
  • 8) You don't tweet any links
  • Check out some blogs and online newspapers for topical or interesting stories, and use a url shortener such as bit.ly, (http://bit.ly/)
  • Searching for twitter hashtags (#)
  • Some examples
  • 9) You don't interact with other users, or re-tweet other people's posts
  • Twitter is a social media tool
  • collaboration, discussion, and sharing
  • "Cliff Notes" version of advice for Twitter newbies
  • the 80/20 ratio (i.e. 80% of your tweets should be about something other than promoting yourself or your blog
  • Karenne Sylvester wrote a great article a while back about how a you can tell a lot about people from what they tweet and how they conduct themselves on Twitter.
  • part of your Digital Footprint
Vanessa Vaile

Giving Feedback on Student Writing: An Innovative Approach - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus - 1 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 31 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • British journal, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education involving the use of something called interactive cover sheets. First-year students in an outdoor studies degree program took a two-semester, six module course which required preparation of a number of written assignments. After preparing their papers, students attached an interactive cover sheet on which they raised questions about the paper they had just completed, thereby identifying the specific areas for feedback.
  • The goal was to overcome the one-way communication that occurs when teachers write comments on student papers
  • Students also tell stories about feedback received on their papers
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  • Does this idea of having students frame questions about their papers and writing offer a solution? The faculty who tried the approach found that students struggled mightily with the task
  • It’s pretty easy to understand why students would find this task challenging. Most (especially beginning students) have little or no experience assessing their own work and then to have to frame a question that would elicit feedback helpful to improving your next paper—that’s a pretty complicated task. But it’s such a good one.
  • that’s a really useful skill
  • I wonder if there might be some ways to reframe the task that would make it easier initially. Maybe students need guidelines early on: Identify the part of the paper you had the most trouble with and ask a question about it. Identify the part of the paper you think turned out best and explain why you feel good about it
  • a potentially promising idea with the dual benefits of developing a great self-assessment skill and directing feedback
  • The 5 questions that I ask are: 1) What are you trying to say here (what's the thesis/main point)? 2) Why is what you are trying to say important? 3) What is working in the piece and why? 4) What is not working in the piece and why? 5) What questions do you have for me?
  • If students feel that they are graded on the writers that they currently are rather than the writer that they are trying to be, many will be hesitant to open an honest dialogue.
  • dialogical cover sheet dates back to the expressivist movement in composition studies in the 1980s. I first came across it through Peter Elbow's writing
  • scaffolding the feedback process by offering students the opportunity to identify aspects of the paper or parts of the paper they would like their instructor to respond to is empowering pedagogy
  • The challenge is making the cover sheet simple enough
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