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Tag Archives: communication
How the Web, and Credit Cards, Spy on You
Are you paranoid about how much Facebook and Google know about you? To find out if you should be, and to find out what your credit cards know about you, I highly recommend Terry O’Reilly’s podcast on Hyper-Targeting - http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/undertheinfluence_20120428_91870.mp3 With his … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, digital_IDs, learning, podcasting, PR, privacy
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Avoiding Learning Management Systems
I teach a couple of university courses in communications, and I don’t like to use Learning Management Systems (LMS). They are handy, but I think, especially for communications courses, students need to be learning the possibilities of the web and … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, media, Tools, Uncategorized, WebLearning
Tagged academic_writing, communication, gmail, learning, school_writing, webapps
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Please support keeping the CBC
Keep Canada connected: Stop severe cuts to the CBC. Protect our news, culture & digital future http://reimaginecbc.ca/connected
BYOD – Students’ Own Devices
I did something in class yesterday that I’ve never done before, in over 40 years of teaching. I asked students to get into groups of three (done that before) and then asked them to use one of the three’s device … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Smart Phones, SocialMedia, WebLearning
Tagged communication, laptop, learning, podcasting, smart phone, tablet
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Grammar Basics
Here are some basic grammar errors to avoid – from http://www.copyblogger.com/grammar-goofs/ via Donna Papacosta Like this infographic? Get more copywriting tips from Copyblogger.
Posted in Writing
Tagged academic_writing, communication, learning, school_writing, visual, writing
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Th Movie and Music Industries are Hypocrites With SOPA and C-11
I’ve just come across a site about remixing with three superb videos. They are interesting and entertaining, and don’t end when they appear to be concluding, as you can see from the screenshot below. I strongly recommend http://mediaatbrooks.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/open-content-and-is-everything-a-remix/ and here’s the first … Continue reading
Moving a gMail Draft from One Device to Another
it was fun discovering how I could move from device to device in gMail! Continue reading
Hello HTC Loaner
The delivery man woke us up at 8:05 with my loaner from Samsung. It’s an HTC Legend (I think). I spent a couple of hours making sure I’d saved everything I wanted from my S2, and reading the instructions on … Continue reading
Posted in Smart Phones, SocialMedia, Tools
Tagged Android, communication, learning, Twitter
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Chronicle, Context, and Narrative
Humans think in narrative. We love stories. Give us two or three incidents, and we grab a plot to tie the incidents together and make them meaningful to us. The web is made up of what Weinberger called Small Pieces … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, Facebook, Google+, reflection, social media, Twitter, wisdom
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Dreaming The Curriculum – A Re-Post from 2006
With the rapidly changing web environment, much writing is ephemeral, and becomes lost in the past. This is a post I think worth re-posting, about the process of creating curriculum. Most of the links no longer work. From 2006 – Dreaming the Curriculum: … Continue reading
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Tagged academic_writing, communication, curriculum, learning, OralRhetoric
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