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Univ. of Southampton's evaluation of a "Web 2.0 Service" offers a brief description and assessments from three perspectives: 1) accessibility, 2) disability-tailoring, and 3) activities for which Type with Me is useful, namely: a) Group Discussion; b) Text-based Editable Information [compilation], c) Note Taking, and d)Collaborative Writing.

"Several principles are key to assuring that the Web becomes ever more valuable. The primary design principle underlying the Web's usefulness and growth is universality" Universality is the Foundation, para. 1).

"The F-Layout relies upon various eyetracking studies for it's foundational concept. These scientific studies show that web surfers read the screen in an 'F' pattern" (Introducing the F-Layout, ¶1).

"Originally written by Janelle Ward for The Broker, and first published on August 5th, 2009 as Rewriting Research" (footnote [URL revised, PB, 2011.02.21]), this article covers the following outline:   Academic BloggingBlog Types and PurposesWho Are Academic BloggersBlogging RewardsCollaborative Writing and WikisPros and Cons of Using WikisWikis['] EffectivenessWeb 2.0, Web 3.0 and BeyondThe Growing Use of Online Tools

"A collection of web based tools to help learners exploit the web" (tagline, 2011.06.23)

A menu of 15 posts in "a series of essays, articles and tutorials on the topic of understanding the theory behind great website designs" (retrieved 2012.03.08).

"Sites that allow users to work with others on documents, or provide a shared workspace" (para. 1).

"Your 'Archived' Ning Network will not allow new posting or uploading, it will only be a copy of your Ning Network as of April 2010, so that it is available to all your members, preserved on the web, searchable, shareable, and fully readable" (What's the catch? ¶1),

"UMW Blogs is a publishing platform available to any member of the University of Mary Washington community. Based on the open-source system, WordPress, it allows any faculty member, student, or staff employee to create a blog, a course or project site, or professional Web presence. We invite you to create an account and start exploring!" (About, ¶1)

"Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting" (Free, copyright-friendly images for education, ¶1, 2012.11/01).

"Student photos, and especially linking names with specific photos, is a common concern that comes up when blogging, sharing videos, or using other web services online. / Information that helps someone identify a student should always be shared with care" (Sue Waters, September 26, 2013).

Explains how to adapt  a WordPress audio player plugiin to for use in web pages and Blogger posts

When students move on from KGU, will they want to remove or revise audio player script that they add to their blog templates?

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List of and links to English pages attached to the Kumamoto Prefecture Web Site: Agriculture, Int'l Exchangee[s], Tourism ...

Top of site introduced by Bernard Robin on Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (FutureofEducation, 2010.03.10) See in particular: Essentials and Web 2.0

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus has launched an innovative new tool called VocabGrabber (http://vocabgrabber.com) that helps teachers and students target the key vocabulary from a text within seconds. Powered by the award-winning Visual Thesaurus software, VocabGrabber intelligently extracts words from any document and demonstrates how those words are used in context. It's a boon for language arts teachers, students of English at all levels of proficiency, or anyone who wants fresh insights into how language works. VocabGrabber is easy to use. Simply copy a passage (up to about 100 pages) into a box on the VocabGrabber web site (http://vocabgrabber.com), click the Grab Vocabulary button, and an interactive visualization of vocabulary words and phrases immediately appears. Or add a VocabGrabber button to your toolbar, and you can grab vocabulary words from a web page with one click. What makes VocabGrabber especially useful is the way in which the words are organized. VocabGrabber compares how often words appear in the text with the frequency of these words in standard written English overall. Grabbing the vocabulary from the United States Bill of Rights, for instance, highlights significant legal terms like probable cause and cruel and unusual punishment. Grabbing the opening of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, meanwhile, will quickly zero in on words like workhouse, gruel, and pauper.

"Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that converts texts to mind maps. It takes a structured list of words or sentences, interprets it, and draws a mind map out of them" (description below working display, above Hints for using it).

Aparta, Krystian. (2014, November 4). How to learn a new language: 7 secrets from TED Translators [web blog post]. Retrieved from http://blog.ted.com/2014/11/04/how-to-learn-a-new-language-7-secrets-from-ted-translators/

"An annotated collection of grammar and writing resources from around the web" (deck, 2014.11.07).