7 days ago by dougpete

Leamington blogger Paul C. posted yesterday about the change in CBC radio. As happens sometime, those of us who responded quickly took the conversation onto a different track. Quickly, we steered the conversation to advertising free radio and the values of a subscription to a satellite radio service ...

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13 days ago by dougpete

I seldom get a chance to drive down a bus route first thing in the morning. Since I’m into work very early, I miss driving past bus stops watching folks waiting for the local traffic. I did get the opportunity the other day. I was amused to see what was happening. Here we have groups of people waiti ...

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14 days ago by dougpete

The October 2008 Edition of GEC Computers in the Classroom is now online. http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/Oct08/ Social Bookmarks: Blogged with the Flock Browser Posted in Computers, Education, Read/Write Web, Teaching Tagged: GECComputers in the Classroom, newsletter

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15 days ago by dougpete

It’s amazing that it doesn’t happen more often or perhaps it does and I just don’t see it. Twitter is an online environment where you let the world know in 140 characters or less what you’re doing. Most social networking websites feature that sort of thing but that’s all that Twitter is about so the ...

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32 days ago by David Skul

In the first part of this article, I explained some of the most common phrases associated with Web 2.0. Here are some more explanations that should help you cut through the jargon. Read/Write Web The internet is no longer a place where users simply view content. Web 2.0 means that users can contribu ...

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39 days ago by dougpete

In a world where we place so much value on competitiveness, we have awards for everything. Now, there are the Twitties. In a number of categories including “Best Tweet”, “Funniest Tweet”, “Smartest Tweet”, … various tweets from Twitter have been nominated as the best of the best for the year. Not qu ...

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41 days ago by dougpete

Jeff Pulver created one of the most common sense posts that I’ve read about the whole genre of social media, blogging, etc. that I think should be required reading for anyone who wants to venture into this area. His post was “ Tips for Not-for-Profits Learning about Social Media“. His focus, as the ...

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42 days ago by dougpete

The more I played with Chrome last night, the more I liked it. I started out with just plain browsing and kept trying to find progressively more complicated websites to see if I could make it crash or even fail to render the same way that it did in other browsers. No problems could be forced upon it ...

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43 days ago by dougpete

Google Chrome became available for download this afternoon. Ever the adventurer, I decided to take a look at it. After all, I downloaded Internet Explorer 8 the other day… First impressions are quite impressive. It loads and renders web pages very quickly. I tried it out on my blog, wiki, and websit ...

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50 days ago

Via a post I found through Workplace Learning Today, Rob Wilkins asked whether “instructional designer” is really an accurate title for what we do. He suggests that “information and instruction architect” might be a better description, especially as we move to more learner control, personal learning ...

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