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the avatar as a representation of “self”

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One of my current students uses her dog, Bishop, as her profile image. I love that she does that. It gives me a warm feeling about her. She mentioned in one of our discussions that she chose him because she was concerned about her privacy and security.
She said:
I think it is funny that you mention [...]

cooltools 2009

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Here is my “Top 10″ list for 2009:
1. seesmic- threaded video discussion
2. jing – screencapture
3. youtube quickcapture, or the flip video camera
4. diigo & groups – social boomarking
5. mogulus – live webcast/broadcast
6. drop.io – online collaboration and file sharing service – This would be a fantastic SP for your LJ approach to teaching/learning with technology [...]

i teach like a girl!

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I started out today working on a web space for my daughters school parent council… went looking for free online web forms to incorporate for various purposes… found wufoo (which looks fantastic!) Read about the founders (love their voice/felt connected), wanted to know them more/better, clicked on their blog. Immediately clicked on the post “on [...]

the cms is a dinosaur …and you know what happened to them…

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I am using moodle to teach ETAP687 because UAlbany was unable to provide instructor-level BLS course shells for the students in this course to create their own online courses, which is a main project for the course. I created the course in Moodle so that students could see from the student perspective what moodle can [...]

cooltools

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Here was my top 10 list of cooltools in february 2008

twitter – http://twitter.com – microblog, community of practice, communication, support.
Second Life – https://secure-web14.secondlife.com/join/- to create your avatar. There are no costs associated with Avatar creation. – user created virtual reality. I am interested in its potential as a an extension of the educational institution for [...]