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Vanessa Vaile

How I Use Mindmapping to Write - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Mind maps are a great tool for getting your jumbly thoughts into a framework. From there, you can work backwards and forwards on ideas without the “weight” of lots of words to slow down your thinking. Then, by the way, you can use the words you’ve put down as the titles of slides, or as the headers to paragraphs or as the notes on your note cards for your speech.
  • the “stuff” of the final product gets in the way of the frame of what we’re putting together.
  • Vanessa Vaile on 28 Jan 10
     
    marketer's approach to using mindmapping to write, in this specific case, speeches and presentations + comments
Vanessa Vaile

Points of Contact - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • When I look at it, I’ve got too many points of contact:
  • And if I were to trim it all back into just a few spots, would it help, or would it bottleneck?
  • I thrive on contact. I’m drowning in it. It’s not my problem. It’s a modern world problem.
  • Vanessa Vaile on 28 Jan 10
     
    not teaching or ESL oriented but still relevant to the task at hand. it also references yet another network to coordinate ~ on top of the tech and new tools, we all inhabit multiple networks
Vanessa Vaile

WordSift - About - 0 views

www.wordsift.com/about

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners.
  • WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. We have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus® that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.
  • a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts
Vanessa Vaile

"Digital Nation": What has the Internet done to us? - 0 views

www.salon.com/...frontline_digital_nation

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10 - Cached
  • My bosses at Suck.com, meanwhile, accurately predicted that the Web would soon become something between a gigantic mall catering to the lowest common denominator and an infinite tabloid echo chamber. Their mantra: Sell out early and often. Why? Because those of us musing about murderous robot showdowns (or scratching out angry cartoons under a pseudonym, for that matter) would all go back to grabbing ankle for The Man sooner than we thought. What they didn't know, and never could've predicted, was that the Web would also transform itself into an enormous, never-ending high school reunion (See also: hell).
  • My bosses at Suck.com, meanwhile, accurately predicted that the Web would soon become something between a gigantic mall catering to the lowest common denominator and an infinite tabloid echo chamber. Their mantra: Sell out early and often.
  • What they didn't know, and never could've predicted, was that the Web would also transform itself into an enormous, never-ending high school reunion (See also: hell)
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  • finally safe to proclaim, together, that the information age has officially arrived.
  • futuristic "Blade Runner"-esque digital dystopia
  • Douglas Rushkoff is currently reconsidering his unconditional love for new media in Frontline's "Digital Nation" (premieres 9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, on PBS, check local listings), an in-depth investigation into the possibilities and side effects of our digital immersion.
  • how are we changing what it means to be a human being by using all this stuff?"
  • Dilbert-meets-Derrida perspective
  • "Most multitaskers think that they're brilliant at multitasking," says Stanford professor Clifford Nass. But "it turns out that multitaskers are terrible at nearly every aspect of multitasking."
  • IBM uses "Second Life" to hold virtual meetings between people who live thousands of miles from each other. Each person at the meeting is embodied by a different avatar, and the participants end up feeling like they've met in person,
  • Can we hold our Salon meetings this way, and can my avatar be an enormous roach that occasionally hits other people over the head with a crowbar?)
  • Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10
     
    from I Like to Watch - Salon.com: internet criticism + review of PBS series on internet use
  • Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10
     
    sharing this Luddite moment w/ Webheads... can you smell the irony in the air
Vanessa Vaile

Professors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above 'Exaflood' of Data - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 25 Feb 10 - Cached
  • "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.
  • Vanessa Vaile on 25 Feb 10
     
    navigating chaos ~ Chronicle article in Wired Campus
Mariel Amez

sing your life - la la la - 0 views

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  • Mariel Amez on 18 Feb 10
     
    A teacher involved in personal development through PLN reflects in her blog.
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,
Vanessa Vaile

JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 17 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Vanessa Vaile on 17 Feb 10
     
    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

Twenty-First Century Literacies | HASTAC - 0 views

www.hastac.org/...wenty-first-century-literacies

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 13 Feb 10 - Cached
  • What cognitive skills are crucial for educators to attend to in our digital age? Media theorist and practitioner Howard Rheingold has talked about four "Twenty-first Century Literacies"--attention, participation, collaboration, and network awareness
  • see http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/rheingold/category?blogid=108&cat=2538
  • Futurist Alvin Toffler argues that, in the 21st century, we need to know not only the three R's, but also how to learn, unlearn, and relearn.  Expanding on these, here are ten literacies that seem crucial for our digital age.  
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  • Attention:  What are the new ways that we pay attention in a digital era?
  • Participation:  Only a small percentage of those who use new "participatory" media really contribute.  How do we encourage meaningful interaction and participation?  What is its purpose on a cultural, social, or civic level?
  • Collaboration:   How do we encourage meaningful and innovative forms of collaboration? 
  • methodology of "collaboration by difference"
  • Network awareness: 
  • how we both thrive as creative individuals and understand our contribution within a network of others
  • Design:   How is information conveyed differently in diverse digital forms? 
  • Narrative, Storytelling:  How do narrative elements shape the information
  • Critical consumption of information
  • Digital Divides, Digital Participation: 
  • Ethics and Advocacy:
  • Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning:
  • trying to unlearn ones reflexive responses to change situation is the only way to become reflective about ones habits of resistance.
Vanessa Vaile

Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 18 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Vanessa Vaile on 18 Feb 10
     
    online bulletin board ~ post stickies on a wall, public or private, just you or a group or the world
  • Vanessa Vaile on 18 Feb 10
     
    looks like great fun and useful to boot (lagniappe)
TESOL CALL-IS

Tips and Tricks for Google Sites (Annuaire du Vin) - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 18 Feb 10
     
    About 60 different tips/tricks for using various Google apps.
TESOL CALL-IS

Open for Learning: The CMS and the Open Learning Network | in education - 0 views

ineducation.ca/...-cms-and-open-learning-network

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 19 Feb 10 - Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 19 Feb 10
     
    "Abstract: The course management system (CMS) reinforces the status quo and hinders substantial teaching and learning innovation in higher education. It does so by imposing artificial time limits on learner access to course content and other learners, privileging the role of the instructor at the expense of the learner, and limiting the power of the network effect in the learning process. The open learning network (OLN)-a hybrid of the CMS and the personal learning environment (PLE)-is proposed as an alternative learning technology environment with the potential to leverage the affordances of the Web to dramatically improve learning. Author Name(s): Jon Mott David Wiley"
TESOL CALL-IS

Diigo Tutorials - List | Diigo - 0 views

www.diigo.com/...Diigo-Tutorials

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 19 Feb 10
     
    Maggie Tsai's list of tutorials--seems pretty complete, most done as slideshows.
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

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

www.livesofteachers.com/...-networks-the-what-why-and-how

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 24 Feb 10 - Cached
  • 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

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

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 24 Feb 10 - Cached
  • 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)
TESOL CALL-IS

hrheingold: How I use Twitter, search, Diigo Delicious, DEVONthink, Scrivener to find, ... - 0 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Jul 11
     
    "How I use Twitter, search, Diigo Delicious, DEVONthink, Scrivener to find, refine, organize information -->knowledge" A nice illustration in a Screenr screencast of how a Stanford professor uses various online tools to organize Internet information. Focuses on vertical (deep) learning, rather than horizontal (social) learning. Created for his students to demonstrate how to organize Internet resources efficiently.
jennifer verschoor

5 Impressive Mashups of Twitter and Flickr - 0 views

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  • jennifer verschoor on 08 Feb 10
     
    "Ben Parr About 9 months ago Ben Parr 13 5 Impressive Mashups of Twitter and Flickr"
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