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Diigo Bookmarks: Week Ending January 21, 2012

Elizabeth — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:31:50 +0000

Catholic Encyclopedia

The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine.”

tags: reference encyclopedia Catholic religion history Catholicism
WWW Virtual Library @ www.vlib.us

United States History; World History; WWI; American History Documents; US Art Museums; US History Museums; USA Historic Sites; Native American Bibliography; Web Site Tools; Electronic Texts

tags: history reference encyclopedia
The Black Death

website of faculty member at Boise State

tags: history MiddleAges plague blackdeath
vizualize.me

Vizualize your resume in one click.

tags: resume tools free
Emurse.com

Create, share and store your resume online for free.

tags: resume tools free
VisualCV

Turn your resume into a VisualCV.

tags: resume tools cv free
CeeVee

Create an outstanding CeeVee. Follow your dream employers. Get hired.

tags: resume tools cv free
JobSpice

Build and share your resume

tags: resume tools free
Resumebaking

Create Your Winning Resume. Share it in social networks. Get job notifications.

tags: resume tools socialnetworking web2.0 free
Resunate

Web based software to build a resume and automatically evaluate & improve it for every job.

tags: resume tools
Kinzaa

Kinzaa lets you build visually stunning infographic resumes.

tags: resume tools infographic
Easy YouTube caption creator

The Easy YouTube caption creator is designed to make it very simple to create a caption text file (.sub format) that you can then add to YouTube video files that you have uploaded.

tags: YouTube captions web2.0 tools free accessibility
Neevia Document Converter

Neevia Document Converter makes it possible for anyone to instantly convert many of the file formats (doc, docx, xls, ppt..) that are used daily to PDF or Image. No need to install anything on your computer. Simply upload the file and select your delivery method.

tags: pdf tools free documents
PDFescape

Free PDF Editor & Free PDF Form Filler – Your Free Online PDF Reader, Editor, Form Filler, Form Designer, Solution

tags: pdf tools documents free

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How to Design and Teach a Hybrid Course by Jay Caulfield

Elizabeth — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:26:51 +0000

When I found Jay Caulfield’s book How to Design and Teach a Hybrid Course: Achieving Student-Centered Learning Through Blended Classroom, Online, and Experiential Activities (Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2011) on WorldCat, I was excited because I thought I have found a manual that would help me convert face-to-face and online courses to a hybrid format.

If that’s what you’re looking for, don’t bother buying or borrowing this book, which focuses more on theory and generalities.

Filed under: Instructional Technology, Reading Tagged: blended learning, elearning, hybrid learning

Devil’s Food Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke

Elizabeth — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:02:51 +0000

I finally found and read Joanne Fluke‘s latest Hannah Swenson Mystery, Devil’s Food Cake Murder (New York: Kensington Books, 2011). Except for the ending (more later), I generally enjoyed the book. Some of the recipes looked especially good or helpful:

Butterscotch Bonanza Bars (30-32)
Mini Mac Cookies (83-85)
Orange or Lemon Creams (96-100)
Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk (223)
Strawberry Shortbread Bar Cookies (248-50)

SPOILER ALERT

As I mentioned earlier, I didn’t like the ending where Norman told Hannah that he was going to marry Bev because otherwise she wouldn’t let him “be part of Diana [his daughter's] life” (322). As I stated in my post about the last Hannah Swenson book, Apple Turnover Murder, I think that ” Norman is clearly the better choice.” I also wrote that “Based on the ending of Apple Turnover Murder, it appears that Hannah may lose Norman to his new partner in his dental practice.”

My prediction appears to be correct, but I have my doubts. At the end of Devil’s Food Cake Murder, Norman told Hannah “I love you so much!” (321). If I were writing the next book, Diana would end up not being Norman’s daughter. In addition, Bev will be the murder victim, Norman will be the obvious suspect, and Hannah will prove that he’s innocent.

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Diigo Bookmarks: Week Ending January 14, 2012

Elizabeth — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:31:39 +0000

BayFiles

tags: file sharing transfer
ForgetBox

Forget USB keys – Send fat files in 4 clicks

tags: file sharing transfer
Minus

Free Image and File Sharing

tags: file sharing transfer image
Crate

Ridiculously easy file-sharing

tags: file sharing transfer
UploaderBOX

upload and sharing of files up to 1 GB

tags: file sharing transfer
justbeamit.com

file transfer made easy

tags: file sharing transfer
Social Research Methods

This website is for people involved in applied social research and evaluation. You’ll find lots of resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods.

tags: statistics research methods social
Twtpoll

From Simple Twitter Polls to Powerful Web Surveys. Social Media Feedback Tool.

tags: web2.0 tools survey polling Twitter
MicroPoll

Free Web Polls – Online Polls – Free Online Poll

tags: web2.0 tools survey polling
Poll Everywhere

Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System

tags: web2.0 tools survey polling
Xtranormal

Xtranormal’s mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century.

Our revolutionary approach to movie-making builds on an almost universally held skill—typing. You type something; we turn it into a movie. On the web and on the desktop.

tags: animation web2.0 moviemaking tools
Tinysong

Type in a song and make a free music link to share music with friends

tags: music Twitter web2.0
Color Scheme Designer 3

designs color schemes: mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic, accented analogic

tags: webdesign color tools
WebsiteTips.com

WebsiteTips.com is an educational Web site design and development resource especially for Web site owners, Web designers, Web professionals, webmasters, teachers and educators, students, and anyone wanting to learn about Web sites.

tags: HTML webdesign CSS tutorials articles
W3Schools

At w3schools.com you will learn how to make a website. We offer free tutorials in all web development technologies.
Select a tutorial from the menu to the left.

tags: HTML webdesign tutorials CSS
HTML Source

HTML tutorials

tags: HTML webdesign tutorials

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The Online Learning Idea Book, Vol. 2 edited by Patti Shank

Elizabeth — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:32:25 +0000

Patti Shank of Learning Peaks has included some good ideas in The Online Learning Idea Book, Vol. 2: Prove Ways to Enhance Technology-Based and Blended Learning (San Francisco: Pfeiffer-Wiley, 2011). I particularly liked these:

“Survival Skills,” which includes some good “Tips for Online Learners” submitted by Susan Barber of Stephen F. Austin State University (pp. 48-51)
“Reading Guide,” which provides an example of a reading guide for online courses submitted by Saul Carliner of Concordia University (pp. 82-86)–a good idea especially if you discover as I have that online students don’t always buy the textbook
“Learning Log,” which explains how Kate Cobb of Blended Learning Zone suggests having online students complete “an online learning log at the end of each module” (pp. 91-94), a good reflection exercise
“Project Grading Checklist,” which was submitted by Kathleen Chatfield of Clark College and resembles peer review checklists and rubrics that I have used (pp. 95-100)
“Comments, Please,” which shows how Nancy Linger of Moraine Park Technical College uses free tools at Collab and VoiceThread “to facilitate peer feedback on learner documents” (pp. 140-142)
“Who Are You” Alternative Online Meet-and-Greet Tactics,” which discusses how Joanna Dunlap and Patrick Lowenthal have their students use various web 2.0 applications like Tinysong, VoiceThread, Xtranormal, Flickr, Wordle, and Animoto to get to know each other (pp. 149-52)
“Online Classroom Clickers,” which explains how to use polling tools “to easily and effectively poll their learners on a variety of topics and then instantly display the results,” was also submitted by Lowenthal and Dunlap (pp. 171-74)
“Word Me,” which shows how Karen Hyder of Kaleidoscope Training and Consulting uses word searches (pp. 199-201)
“Word Clouds,” which shows how Terry Morris of Harper College uses web-based applications to create word clouds (pp. 305-08)

Filed under: Education, Instructional Technology, Reading Tagged: blended learning, elearning

Video: “Poet’s Corner and Globe Theatre”

Elizabeth — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:12:23 +0000

Video: “Poet’s Corner and Globe Theatre“

This video, which is a tour of the Poet’s Corner and the Globe Theatre on Renaissance Island in Second Life, was created using Screencast-O-Matic.

Filed under: Education, Instructional Technology Tagged: poetry, Renaissance Island, second life, Shakespeare, sonnet, video, virtual worlds

Diigo Bookmarks: Week Ending January 7, 2012

Elizabeth — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:31:28 +0000

Themeefy

Create, Curate, Publish – Themeefy is a cool new way to discover, curate, compile and publish knowledge from the web to create your personal Theme magazine.

tags: web2.0 publishing tools writing curating
Smivi

Smivi aims to improve the video search experience by bringing you fast and relevant search results. Finding the videos you want through the hundreds and millions of videos over the web can be a tall order.

tags: searchengine video socialsearch
TwHistory

Students or volunteers pick a well-documented historical event. They pick real historical figures who were at that event, and create tweets based on original source documentation. These tweets are then scheduled to be broadcast in real time. The end result is a virtual reenactment of a historical event, broadcast in real time.

tags: tools web2.0 Twitter history
MyTweetMag

MyTweetMag turns your twitter-links into your personal blog-stream. Curate your topic and show, what you are passionate about!

tags: tools web2.0 Twitter curating
Smarthistory

Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. Part of the Khan Academy, we use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art. We are seeking contributors—especially for canonical non-Western material and other survey topics not yet covered. We welcome comments, feedback and corrections.

tags: education history humanities art
JotForm

JotForm is a free web form builder. For basic usage, upto 100 submissions/month, you can use JotForm fully.

tags: tools web2.0 free surveys
Research in Learning Technology

Research in Learning Technology is the journal of the Association for Learning Technology. It aims to raise the profile of research in learning technology, encouraging research that informs good practice and contributes to the development of policy. The journal publishes papers concerning the use of technology in learning and teaching in all sectors of education, as well as in industry.

tags: journal elearning blended IDT

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Video: “‘A Princess to a Dragon’”

Elizabeth — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:46:32 +0000

Video: “‘A Princess to a Dragon‘”

I created this video of me reading my sonnet with Screencast-O-Matic, which I want to use to create screencasts for my classes. I’ve tried using Jing before, but I couldn’t convert the file to upload to YouTube, though it works well for screenshots. I also downloaded CamStudio to try, but it seems pretty complicated.

Filed under: Arts, Instructional Technology Tagged: poetry, Screencast-O-Matic, screencasting, sonnet, video

Infographic: Get More Out Of Google

Elizabeth — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:47:11 +0000

This infographic comes from HackCollege:

Created by: HackCollege

Filed under: Research Tagged: Google, infographics, internet research

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: December 2011

Elizabeth — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:04:33 +0000

Filed under: Reading Tagged: blogging, curating, curation, elearning