Monthly Archives: July 2009

I found this neat site on Business Etiquette that you might want to share Modet’s Etiquette Tip of the Week « Improving the World, One Rude Person at a Time

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Wisdom

A video on wisdom Something to think about;

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Social Media Presentations

There are thousands of presentations on Social Media so how can you find the best presentations to fit your needs. chech out this top ten list of social media presentations. http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/the-top-10-social-media-presentations-online/

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Tweetable plugin test

I just added a plugin to this blog which should add a tweet to my twitter account every time I add a new blog entry. I am using this entry to test it…. and it worked Yeah!! If you are interested I used the plugin Tweetable

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A New Wave is Coming – Google Wave

Lars Rasmussen of Google asked the question, “What would e-mail look like if it was invented today?” Google Wave attempts to answer that. If you haven’t heard about Google Wave, then be prepare to be blown away. Take a sneak-peek into the future of how we are all going to work collaboratively across the internet. I implore you to watch [...]

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Learning Management System

The Learning Management System (LMS) is the administrator of my course. EVERYTHING for the course is on the LMS: Weekly schedule Grades Assignments with Rubrics Content (powerpoints, links to content) Calendar Email Feel like you are answering the same questions over and over again -> Send them to the LMS When students claim they are [...]

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Yes You Can!

Online learning has definite advantages over face-to-face instruction when it comes to teaching and learning, according to a new meta-analysis released Friday by the U.S. Department of Education. Critics say that Online Courses (and Blended courses) takes up too much time  dealing with the technical issues and  is often received with dissatisfaction and frustration. Yes, [...]

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Creativity and Education

You have got to watch this video about creativity and education.

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Educational Technology fan

I am an educational technology fan. So what is Educational Technology? I really like wikipedia’s definition.

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PC Computer not opening a document with the right software

Recently, I had a friend have problems opening a MS word document with their PC computer at home. The document had the extension .docx. All files have a filename and then an extension: filename.extension The document was called: course1024.docx. .docx is the file extension for the latest version of MS Word My friend’s computer, that [...]

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