WinK Core: Weblogging in Kumamoto

Journal of Multimedia Aided Education Research (2006)

Thanks to Yuly for pointing out this powerful toolkit allowing wildcard searches and including a reverse dictionary. OneLook contains "19,044,271 words in 1062 dictionaries indexed" (home page, bottom line, 2011.01.28).

One of four tabs in the SuperPower: Visualizing the internet collection, including: The top 100, ..., Net growth, & How it works

Introduces second video in Tim Murphey's "Japanese student voices" series, explains problems arising from rising tuition costs for students going overseas, and links to various related articles.

A must view and listen site for teachers interested in edublogging, esp. slides 13ff.

Explains how to add green badges to various types of blogs, including now defunct Vox blogs

Explains automated optical character recognition as it applies to image files uploaded to Google Docs

Huge list of bibs by topic

Although this entire document focuses on N. American higher education settings (Part One, ¶1), Part Two: Guidelines for Writing and Writing-Intensive Courses will interest and hopefully inform administrators, course designers, program planners, and teachers working in other regional and perhaps even global contexts as well. Part two covers: Class Size, Assignment Design, Assessment, Textual Borrowing, Teacher Preparation, and resource provisions. Part Four: Guidelines for Teacher Preparedness will interest those involved in teacher education, or pre- and in-service teacher development. Part Six comprises an extensive bibliography for further reading.

Lists eight (8) suggestions to help you avoid sequential organizational faults when writing instructions or presenting other information "where sequence is important" (Sequential Order, ¶1). Of particular interest are front-loading (step 1-2) and using repetition instead of back or cross-references (step 8).

Covers "bad news" organization; includes Guide for Refusing a Request and suggests ending on a positive note.

"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).

Covers why and how to make an outline

"There is no substantial qualitative definition of a blog. Blogs, or rather blogging platforms, just exist. The quality or essence of a blog is given meaning only via what the author does with the blog and how the blog is responded to" (¶4, retrieved 2010.12.13).

Thanks to Nik for pointing this out in Get Students Checking Grammar and Collocation

FAQ-ish explanation of presentations comprising twenty slides displayed for twenty seconds each, and a not-for-profit organization supporting such presentations

includes factsheet, games, quiz, and worksheet; suggests reviewing: Before you start ... Do you want to revise making simple sentences? Do you want to revise using commas?

"This is the official Website for the Fukuoka chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)." (Welcome to Fukuoka JALT, ¶1, 2010.09.30)

"By downloading an Image You agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement automatically..." (Legal information, Image license agreement, ¶1, 2010.09.21).

"We've compiled a monster list of 70+ tools and resources for podcasters and wannabes" (¶1, 2010.09.02).