As part of my presentations on Personal Learning Networks (PLN) I created a PLN Yourself site to help new people work through setting up their own Personal Learning network.
The site focuses on the top 5 tools for building your own PLN based on 196 responses in my Personal Learning Network (PLN) Survey.
This site has been [...]
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What Are Your 5 Top Web tools For Managing Your Workload?
Categorized in Inspiring others to use Web 2.0, Working With Web 2.0 Tools
Tags: Personal Learning Network, PLN
YouTube and Downloading?
In early September EDNA’s Blogging Corner’s forum debated the legalities of downloading YouTube videos because it’s a violation of YouTube’s terms of service to download.
So I was intrigued that Simon and Matthieu information on YouTube states that:
A copy of a YouTube video may be downloaded under section 28 of the Australian Copywrite act provided that [...]
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Consumption, Creation And Videos!
I’m really enjoying reading blog posts written by Lina’s University students who are studying to be teachers. The students (in pairs) have to gain expertise in one innovative technology which they share with other students in a hour presentation and by documenting on the class wiki.
How they perceive the benefits/issues of each technology is not [...]
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Tags: digital story telling, YouTube
Do You Use Second Life or other Virtual Worlds With Your Students?
Hayley really needs our help! She is one of the students studying to be a teacher and has to do a presentation on Second Life. Understandably she’s new to Second Life and virtual worlds so is finding it hard to relate to their usefulness in the educational world.
Anyone whose seen me in action [...]
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Tags: Quest Atlantis, Second Life
Using Your Google Calendar To Help Manage Workload!
Using my email inboxes as my To-Do-List went so well yesterday I even managed to get through work tasks that I really hate and have a bad habit of delaying for weeks. Which made me think “How could my new skills to ensure I complete these tasks more timely?”
My solution ? Create events [...]
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Getting Your Gmail Account Under Control And Working For You!
I’ve never been able to control my email accounts! Regardless of my actions emails flow in leading to major email infestation.
James’s explanation of how he uses his email accounts as his “to-do-list”; archiving emails that have been actioned immediately and keeping those that need follow up labeled in his Inbox has helped me to take [...]
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Tags: Gmail
Creating Web 2.0 Logos using Web tools
I’m part of “Web 2.0 Wednesday” where each Wednesday Michele Martin posts a Web 2.0 activity for us to try. This week Michele asked us to create a logo for our Web 2.0 Wednesdays — only condition was we had to use Web 2.0 tools to create the logo.
I love tasks that really challenge [...]
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Tags: Web 2.0 generators
Writing blog posts from mobile devices
I absolutely love being given challenges. So was totally pleased when Alice Mercer sent me a message in twitter asking if I could tell her how to write blog posts to Edublogs using her mobile phone.
Fortunately I had lots of ideas about how I might do it so it was just a matter of testing [...]
Categorized in Tips For Better Blogging, Working With Web 2.0 Tools
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Here you'll catch me talking about elearning, Web 2.0 and technology while helping others.
You can also find me posting on The Edublogger, The Campus and WPMU.ORG
Are You Being A More Effective Blogger By Tracking Comments?
When I leave comments on other blogger’s posts I like to be notified on any new comments that are posted. Maybe it is just me? But comments by other readers and response(s) by the blogger help my learning.
Being notified of follow up comments means I can choose to continue the conversation by returning to the [...]
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