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Vanessa Vaile

Life Under An #Ashtag: Online Networking My Way Home From Europe | techPresident - 0 views

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  • I don’t feel like a displaced person, but more like a ball being buoyed by an invisible network of friends and strangers, all connecting to me and with each other via the Internet.
  • Does it make sense to rely on one’s online social network in times of crisis?
  • But at every moment, whether I was hearing from friends or strangers, I was comforted knowing that people were looking out for me. And I got a lot of useful answers when I needed them.
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  • what failed this past week was not the Internet, but corporate and government agency websites. They’ve been rendered useless by this crisis because they operate under a no-fail rule: nothing can be posted on them unless cleared from above
  • By contrast, the networked public sphere of bloggers, friends and strangers grouping around hashtags and online social networks, has been doing what it always does: sharing information, offering support, highlighting problems and improvising solutions.
  • fluid, open and collaborative,
Vanessa Vaile

PROOF that Wordle can help you edit - 1 views

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Wordle editing writing words

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    more editing with Wordle
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Heim Binas Fiction: Wordle. - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 10 Apr 10 - Cached
  • a concordance as presented by a word cloud gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text
  • word clouds to find unexpected language
  • a suggestion for beginning writers that uses this program. Wordle your work-in-progress, then look at it. Is it what you expected? Are the names of some characters HUGE, when in fact you didn't think they got that much time on the page? Do you use fiction's "meaningless words" too often: apparently, very, or really? Or perhaps some good news... a theme of your book appears to you, written but unnoticed until now. It's suprisingly cool how much this reveals about your use of language.
Vanessa Vaile

adVancEducation: Modeling your PLN: Backchanneling with Students - 2 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 09 Apr 10 - Cached
  • PLN, or Personal Learning Network
  • what we envisage involves colleagues sharing information in a social network or community of practice
  • Scott Leslie's nice collection of PLE diagrams: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams
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  • one of the ten paradigm shifts that I think educators must make as they move into facilitating learning in the 21st century
  • we should be teaching as 21st century life skills: creativity, communication, collaboration
  • The problem is where networks might collide
  • distracting clutter
  • LISTS
  • Edmodo
  • Edmodo
  • Etherpad
  • why we'd want to backchannel with students
  • a classic: http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/
  • This post therefore is yet another example of how a PLN works
Vanessa Vaile

Getting Students to Do the Reading: Pre-Class Quizzes on Wordpress - ProfHacker.com - 1 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 27 Mar 10 - Cached
  • learning as a two-step process: First there’s the transfer of information (from a source of knowledge, like an instructor, to the student), then there’s the assimilation of that information by the student
  • students need to have their first exposure to the course material happen some other way—like reading their textbook
  • in all fields, there’s still the challenge of motivating students to actually do the pre-class readings
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  • short, online reading quizzes consisting of open-ended questions that are due several hours before class starts to do the job.  Most of the quiz questions are meant to help students focus on and make some sense of key concepts
  • Students submit answers to these questions online before class, and I grade their quizzes on effort.
  • pre-class reading quizzes allow me to practice what is often called “just-in-time teaching.”
  • pre-class reading quiz questions as a clicker question during class,
  • how do I implement these quizzes?
  • local course management system, but I found the system to cumbersome
  • I find it much easier to post course documents to a WordPress blog, and I like that it makes my course more open to those not enrolled in it. 
  • I create a Facebook fan page for each of my courses
  • that pulls in the course blog content via RSS
  • So I now post my pre-class reading quizzes on my course blogs, tagged with a “PCRQ” for easy locating
  • default comments feature on WordPress to have students reply to them.  This meant that students could read each other’s answers, which, for these questions, only enhanced the learning experience
  • So I looked around for a way to have students comment on posts semi-privately—where I could see their comments but they couldn’t see each other’s comments.  I found a WordPress plug-in called, appropriately, Semi-Private Comments!  (Plug-ins—yet another reason I prefer WordPress to a course management system.) 
  • he main limitation is that it doesn’t help me grade those quizzes
Vanessa Vaile

A special report on managing information: Data, data everywhere | The Economist - 3 views

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evomlit technology information management information overload "big data" report

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 01 Mar 10 - Cached
  • the world contains an unimaginably vast amount of digital information which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly. This makes it possible to do many things that previously could not be done: spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on. Managed well, the data can be used to unlock new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into science and hold governments to account.
  • also creating a host of new problems
  • the proliferation of data is making them increasingly inaccessible
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  • Scientists and computer engineers have coined a new term for the phenomenon: “big data”.
  • Epistemologically speaking, information is made up of a collection of data and knowledge is made up of different strands of information. But this special report uses “data” and “information” interchangeably because, as it will argue, the two are increasingly difficult to tell apart.
  • business of information management
  • Chief information officers (CIOs)
  • statistician and storyteller/artist
  • many reasons for the information explosion
  • technology
  • digitising lots of information that was previously unavailable
  • access to far more powerful tools
  • many more people who interact with information
  • shift from information scarcity to surfeit has broad effects
  • “Data exhaust”
  • in aggregate the data can also be mined
  • In a world of big data the correlations surface almost by themselves.
  • The way that information is managed touches all areas of life. At the turn of the 20th century new flows of information through channels such as the telegraph and telephone supported mass production. Today the availability of abundant data enables companies to cater to small niche markets anywhere in the world.
Vanessa Vaile

The PLN Staff Lounge - 2 views

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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

Twitter as a Personal Learning Network (PLN) | - 0 views

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  • Personal Learning Networks are all the rage at the moment. As with a lot of “modern” things, they’re existed for a long time but have now got a snappy new name.
  • these people are, in Web 2.0-speak, friends.
  • A PLN can take advantage of lots of different services – Facebook is perhaps the best-known, Ning is also very popular
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  • David Carr, writing in the New York Times has written an excellent article describing the growing impact of Twitter and explaining why it is set to become part of the infrastructure of the Internet.
  • If you’re interested in what’s new in your field, then Twitter is a great place to start.
  • When it comes to finding a tool to get a job done Twitter is without equal – Prezi, Animoto, Wallwisher, Glogster Edu, Dropbox – I got the tip about all of them first on Twitter
  • If you’re looking to integrate the Internet into your teaching, then your first port of call on Twitter is #edtech.
  • real-time search of posts about educational technology
  • The hashtag (#) is used by Twitter as a filter and will take you directly to current posts about that topic
  • the jewel in Twitter’s crown for educators is #edchat.
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    from What's New in the World? Blog and Podcasts for ELT professionals
Vanessa Vaile

Tweet Travels - Teaching Village - 1 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 27 Feb 10 - Cached
  • to show her students how far a message can travel on Twitter. The way her message spread throughout Twitter provides a great example of how retweeting works, and why hashtags matter.
  • First, hashtags
  • Second, Kim asked people to retweet her message
Vanessa Vaile

Too Busy to Read This? Save it for Later with ReadItLater's Newest Service - 1 views

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  • Unfortunately, the ability to quickly tap a button to add something to your reading list was so easy - perhaps too easy - that users ended up with long, unwieldy lists of saved content. Now ReadItLater is introducing a new Digest feature which helps you get caught up by automatically sorting and organizing articles for you.
  • Digest: Imposing Order on the Chaos of Unread Items
  • "Read It Later with a brain."
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  • filtering and organization is performed automatically
  • Articles you saved about the latest gadgets would end up in one section, for example, and those about politics would end up in another
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    This one's for Nina
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Professors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above 'Exaflood' of Data - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 0 views

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  • "Managing the Exaflood"
  • researchers presented ideas for getting a handle on all this data -- an exabyte is one billion billion bytes -- and using it productively.
  • visualization is one way to work with them.
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  • Google, a major source of information overload, can also help manage it,
  • These strategies present challenges for accurately tagging data and archiving it, the presenters warned.
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    navigating chaos ~ Chronicle article in Wired Campus
Vanessa Vaile

apophenia » Blog Archive » ChatRoulette, from my perspective - 0 views

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  • It’s a game played by flaneurs walking the digital streets.
  • the Internet today is about socializing with people you already know. But I used to love the randomness of the Internet
  • Strangers allowed me to see from a different perspective.
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  • still a small percentage of folks out there looking for some amusement because they’re bored and they want to connect with randomness
  • a space where teens and young adults and the rest of us can actually interact with randomness again
  • randomness of the worl
  • Vanessa Vaile on 24 Feb 10
     
    originally in French ~ quelle surprise (pas de tout)
Vanessa Vaile

the lives of teachers » Blog Archive » personal learning networks - the wh... - 0 views

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  • Personal Learning Networks – the what, why and how from darren elliott on Vimeo. A presentation at the 4th International Wireless Ready Symposium,
  • list of ELT professionals and educational technologists worth following
  • The reading and research for this presentation can be found on my diigo social bookmarking page
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  • onestopblogs
Vanessa Vaile

Opinion: Internet and Education -- Back to the Future - AOL News - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 24 Feb 10 - Cached
  • The education industry, like so many others, is busy being transformed by the Internet.
  • he best possible system of education actually existed thousands of years ago. And what the Internet can help us do is go back to it, with one important modern twist: scale.
  • individual relationship between an enlightened tutor and an eager student
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  • there simply aren't enough expert teachers with enough time to bring every child along
  • If the 21th century is to be a time of progress, education must continue to expand. This makes it even more difficult to provide individual instruction for all the world's students.
  • That's the promise of the Internet, which excels above all else at scale: scale of information, social interactions, geographic reach.
  • The acid test I apply to every new initiative is: to what extent does it bring us closer to the old system of individualized, personal, expert instruction, except with scale?
  • Online tutoring is an example of a promising Internet-driven innovation. Companies like TutorVista and Smarthinking let hundreds of thousands of students get on-demand personal help in their homes at a reasonable cost.
  • online systems that can "diagnose" individual students' strengths and weaknesses and dynamically generate a tailored curriculum.
  • Other innovations lie somewhere in between the two
  • It's important to remember that many of the most important education innovations lie outside the Internet.
  • But the Internet will also disrupt. Textbooks, for example, can't continue in their present form
  • two principles: first, invest in Internet innovations that bring us closer to the vision of universal, personalized instruction; and second, champion those designed to complement, rather than replace, traditional academic institutions.
Vanessa Vaile

Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick - 0 views

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    online bulletin board ~ post stickies on a wall, public or private, just you or a group or the world
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    looks like great fun and useful to boot (lagniappe)
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JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 0 views

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    tudent response system (SRS) use may provide one solution for transforming the passive and isolated online learning environment experienced by many students. SRS use combined with sound pedagogical practices can create an active learning environment comprised of a collaborative social learning community capable of effectively meeting varied learning needs. Newly developed SRSs have created the opportunity to explore online SRS use. Incorporation of SRS use within behaviorism, social constructivism, and many other pedagogical approaches makes it a tool worthy of consideration in solving pedagogical dilemmas and creating a positive learning experience. Despite a lack of research related to online SRS use, this article utilizes current SRS and online polling research and information to determine the primary benefits and challenges associated with online SRS use.
Vanessa Vaile

Best Applications For Annotating Websites | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 15 Feb 10 - Cached
  • annotate books or articles so they can demonstrate their use of reading strategies (asking questions, making connections, etc.).
  • Backboard allows you to literally draw a line to a place on the website and then write a comment
  • Book Goo is a new tool that lets you upload documents or webpages and then annotate and share them.
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  • Jog The Web is so easy to use. It allows you to easily create a slideshow of websites or images,
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