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How the Web, and Credit Cards, Spy on You

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Joan Vinall-Cox

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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BYOD – Students’ Own Devices

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Joan Vinall-Cox

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 →

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Less of an Apple Fan Now

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Joan Vinall-Cox

I spent 12 days trying to get my iTunes store to work, with increasing urgency after I received an iPad 2. I got emails and even a phone call from Apple Support and from iTunes Support, and then more emails. … Continue reading →

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Developmental Teaching/Learning

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Joan Vinall-Cox

I’ve just finished teaching (and am still marking) a course called Oral Rhetoric. In it students start by telling a 5 minute story from their own experiences to the class. They also are part of a team that presents, in … Continue reading →

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