Just pointing to a community notice I sent out yesterday for the Drupal CMS Academy, part of the Worldbridges network. For those interested in learning how to use Drupal, check out the collaborative learning environment that is under development and join us for some live Drupal community brainstorming on Sunday! Drupal CMS Academy Community Brainstorming […]
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One of the struggles with online learning is finding tools to create, publish and share text based media within the online learning environment. Here are just some of the many problems: Creating: Most of the written text that is created by students and teachers is MS Word based. While it is the best known text
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This is cool! Now how to explain it . . . the best thing to do is go to the site (textmark.com) and look at the nifty diagram they have concocted to explain it. In a nutshell, TextMark.com is an Internet based text messaging service where you set up a "message" that others can receive
The Wall Street Journal had an article today (I'd link to it, but you need a paid subscription) about online swap markets for books. While the sites listed in the article differ slightly, they are all an attempt to cut out the middleman in the sale and purchase of used books (and in some cases
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My lowly little web site turned into a comment spammers paradise last Sunday. I had to delete over 500 comments that ranged from completely irrelevant to the site to downright disgusting. I had tried the Drupal module "bad behavior", but ended up somehow locking myself out of my own site. I'm sure that was due
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My mom (to this day) sends me out into the world with the same old family pep talk that she heard herself when she was a wee lass, "Be a good girl, have a good time, and learn a lot." Even if I am just running out to the grocery store, those are usually her
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I just pulled the trigger on my registration to the 2006 AECT Convention in Dallas, TX. It will be a great opportunity to hear some interesting presentations and to meet and greet students and faculty in my program (a very rare treat for a distance student). Also, I'm just guessing, but it looks like the
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Listservs may seem to have taken a backseat to blogs, wikis and community web sites. However, if you work or study in and around the field of Instructional Technology, but aren't subscribed to the Instructional Technology Forum (ITForum for short)- you are missing out on discussions, ideas and happenings in the IT community. No glitz,
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I have the best classmates this semester! Each time I log in to "class", I am presented with a wealth of resources that I spend about an hour a day just filing away. The latest one was new to me, but worth taking an extra second to pass along. WorldCat is a massive online catalog
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Back in April, I made a post about my new Cingular 8125. I had owned the phone for a day and had gotten off to a rocky, yet still promising start. I have now had 5 months to play with it, so I've collected my thoughts on the experience: The good (or not so bad):
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