John just pointed me to Wikibooks,
which gave me an idea for a semester-long project in the fall: putting
the EFL students in groups of 4 to 8 and having them work
collaboratively on writing short stories for possible publication on
the internet, such as in a magazine like Topics, or on their own website. I’ll see how they [...]
Here’s a nice resource of free online articles on teaching and learning from Indiana University.
via Tim Denny at KansaiLCT
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We spent most of our session reviewing Week 9: RSS and aggregators and how to use tools like Feedster, Waypath, and Technorati
to find feeds relevant to our learning needs. One learner
said he was having trouble finding good blogs to subscribe to. It
was agreed that he should try different search terms in addition to
subscribing to the [...]
I just realized that I’ve been using the term ‘interactive webpublishing’ to describe our webpublishing activities here at the East Asia Center
this semester. A feedster search indicated that nobody else seems
to be using this term; have I got it wrong? I’ve seen and may
even have used the terms ‘personal webpublishing’, ‘personal knowledge publishing‘, and ‘dynamic [...]
I said, ‘Furl is the cousin of Earl‘
She said, ‘For real?’
I said, ‘Exactly’
Furl is For Real.
Yesterday I sat down and finally examined its features and sure enough,
all the compliments are true. It makes bookmarking enjoyable and
effortless while constructing a searchable, personal archive. The
best part is that you can share them via RSS. You can [...]