Computers and Writing 2008 announces the ninth Graduate Research Network, a forum for discussion of research projects and work in progress related to Computers and Writing. The C&W Graduate Research Network is an all-day pre-conference event, open to all registered conference participants at no charge.
Roundtable discussions will group those with similar interests and discussion leaders who will facilitate discussion and offer suggestions for developing research projects and for finding suitable venues for publication. We encourage anyone interested or involved in graduate education and scholarship--students, professors, mentors, and interested others--to participate in this important event.
The GRN welcomes those pursuing work at any stage, from those just beginning to consider ideas to those whose projects are ready to pursue publication.
The Graduate Research Network is free to all registered conference participants. For more information, see the full Call for Proposals at http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/writling/GRN/2008/index.html or email jwalker@georgiasouthern.edu.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Notes from the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy
Okay, I’ve been told that I need to update my blog. I mean, sheesh, isn’t once a year enough??
Well, maybe not. So….
Anyway, there’s an old Chinese curse (or so someone somewhere once told me) that goes “May you live in interesting times.” And the times have definitely been interesting for me (no, I’m not trying to make excuses for only blogging once a year—well, yeah, maybe I am, but ANYWAY….).
This year’s Georgia Conference on Information Literacy is history, and we’re gearing up to get ready for next year’s. Once again, the Conference was deemed a success according to the surveys of attendees, and those kind of markers, but, more importantly, I truly enjoyed all of the wonderful presentations I attended.
A few I want to mention especially:
Anthony Atkins and Robert Searcy of the University of North Carolina,Wilmington, presented “Writing the Image in Composition: Student/ Teacher Collaboration,” in which they discussed having students analyze and produce visual texts. I have to say I was blown away by the multimedia projects the students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels completed! In the same session, Jonette La Gamba of the University of South Florida presented “Teaching Elements of Rhetoric: Employing Visuals,” outlining a plan to teach first-year composition students elements of classical rhetoric and writing by having them create advertisements, “borrowing” and repurposing visual elements--or creating their own. Some fascinating examples!
Karen Lunsford from the University of California at Santa Barbara presented on “Using Orientation Materials with Writing Assignments,” showing what UCSB is doing with Sakai and Moodle, making “library orientation materials more directly relevant to students by making them part of research writing assignments.”
The keynote presentation on Saturday was by Keith Curry Lance, former director of library research service (Colorado State Library) Department of Education (Denver) and entitled “Powering Achievement: The Importance of School Libraries on Information Literacy and Academic Achievement.” He showed us information he had collected on the demonstrated links between “high-quality school library programs and high-stakes test scores.” None of us were surprised by these links, of course! But seeing these statistics was still extremely interesting, especially in light of the ongoing studies Lance is still involved with hoping to learn more about these important relationships.
Joan E. Broome, of the Zach S. Henderson Library at Georgia Southern University, and Christine Whitlock of the GSU chemistry department are working to teach information literacy to students in organic chemistry, and Barbara Hightower and Michelle Schutt, both of Auburn University, Montgomery, are teaching library research skills to nursing students in WebCT. Their presentations continued this important strand on using technology to help make information available to students and customizing information literacy instruction to better fulfill disciplinary needs.
Finally, I attended the presentation given by Julie Housknecht, Betsy Whitley, and Adrienne Button, all of North Georgia College and State University, entitled “Beyond the Skills Survey: Activities as Assessment.” A testament to the success of this presentation (and, I think, of the conference as a whole) was the amount of audience involvement in this timely and thought-provoking presentation, even at the end of a full slate of conferencing, when so many participants at most conferences are looking for toothpicks to hold their eyes open. Not here! Obviously, assessment, especially in this era of evidence-based decision making, is a “hot button” topic! The activities they outlined look to prove useful for many participants at any level!
Hopefully before the year is out (!), I’ll blog a bit about my own conference panel on my other blog (no, I don’t update it any more than I do this one!). But check it out anyway (link to LILAC blog).
So, okay, this Conference was definitely NOT squirrel splat! J
Keep an eye out on my home page at http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~jwalker for a link to the call for proposals for NEXT year’s Georgia Conference on Information Literacy, October 3-4, 2008, at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah. The deadline for proposals will be April 15, 2008, so get your thinking caps in gear.
Well, maybe not. So….
Anyway, there’s an old Chinese curse (or so someone somewhere once told me) that goes “May you live in interesting times.” And the times have definitely been interesting for me (no, I’m not trying to make excuses for only blogging once a year—well, yeah, maybe I am, but ANYWAY….).
This year’s Georgia Conference on Information Literacy is history, and we’re gearing up to get ready for next year’s. Once again, the Conference was deemed a success according to the surveys of attendees, and those kind of markers, but, more importantly, I truly enjoyed all of the wonderful presentations I attended.
A few I want to mention especially:
Anthony Atkins and Robert Searcy of the University of North Carolina,Wilmington, presented “Writing the Image in Composition: Student/ Teacher Collaboration,” in which they discussed having students analyze and produce visual texts. I have to say I was blown away by the multimedia projects the students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels completed! In the same session, Jonette La Gamba of the University of South Florida presented “Teaching Elements of Rhetoric: Employing Visuals,” outlining a plan to teach first-year composition students elements of classical rhetoric and writing by having them create advertisements, “borrowing” and repurposing visual elements--or creating their own. Some fascinating examples!
Karen Lunsford from the University of California at Santa Barbara presented on “Using Orientation Materials with Writing Assignments,” showing what UCSB is doing with Sakai and Moodle, making “library orientation materials more directly relevant to students by making them part of research writing assignments.”
The keynote presentation on Saturday was by Keith Curry Lance, former director of library research service (Colorado State Library) Department of Education (Denver) and entitled “Powering Achievement: The Importance of School Libraries on Information Literacy and Academic Achievement.” He showed us information he had collected on the demonstrated links between “high-quality school library programs and high-stakes test scores.” None of us were surprised by these links, of course! But seeing these statistics was still extremely interesting, especially in light of the ongoing studies Lance is still involved with hoping to learn more about these important relationships.
Joan E. Broome, of the Zach S. Henderson Library at Georgia Southern University, and Christine Whitlock of the GSU chemistry department are working to teach information literacy to students in organic chemistry, and Barbara Hightower and Michelle Schutt, both of Auburn University, Montgomery, are teaching library research skills to nursing students in WebCT. Their presentations continued this important strand on using technology to help make information available to students and customizing information literacy instruction to better fulfill disciplinary needs.
Finally, I attended the presentation given by Julie Housknecht, Betsy Whitley, and Adrienne Button, all of North Georgia College and State University, entitled “Beyond the Skills Survey: Activities as Assessment.” A testament to the success of this presentation (and, I think, of the conference as a whole) was the amount of audience involvement in this timely and thought-provoking presentation, even at the end of a full slate of conferencing, when so many participants at most conferences are looking for toothpicks to hold their eyes open. Not here! Obviously, assessment, especially in this era of evidence-based decision making, is a “hot button” topic! The activities they outlined look to prove useful for many participants at any level!
Hopefully before the year is out (!), I’ll blog a bit about my own conference panel on my other blog (no, I don’t update it any more than I do this one!). But check it out anyway (link to LILAC blog).
So, okay, this Conference was definitely NOT squirrel splat! J
Keep an eye out on my home page at http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~jwalker for a link to the call for proposals for NEXT year’s Georgia Conference on Information Literacy, October 3-4, 2008, at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah. The deadline for proposals will be April 15, 2008, so get your thinking caps in gear.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Squirrel Splat
Today I watched a squirrel climbing, climbing, climbing up the brick wall of my office building. As I watched the squirrel making its way up the wall, I wondered why it would possibly want to climb that wall. Nonetheless, the squirrel climbed to the very top (three stories high) before realizing it had nowhere to go. It couldn't get to the roof because of decoration with no handholds (not even the tiny handholds needed by a squirrel). So there it was, three stories up a sheer brick wall and nowhere to go.
It looked around and saw a very small tree and jumped for it--but unfortunately the tree was not only small, it was too far away, so the squirrel landed on the sidewalk with a decided "Splat!" Luckily, after a few minutes of either unconsciousness or total embarrassment, the squirrel sat up and ran off--up a slightly bigger tree.
I suddenly realized that my day has been going just like this story--climbing, climbing, climbing, with nowhere to go unless I decide to go "Splat!" I just hope that, when I get to that point, I, too, can finally sit up and run (although I'm not sure I want to run toward yet something else to climb!).
Anyway, that's how my day has gone so far....
It looked around and saw a very small tree and jumped for it--but unfortunately the tree was not only small, it was too far away, so the squirrel landed on the sidewalk with a decided "Splat!" Luckily, after a few minutes of either unconsciousness or total embarrassment, the squirrel sat up and ran off--up a slightly bigger tree.
I suddenly realized that my day has been going just like this story--climbing, climbing, climbing, with nowhere to go unless I decide to go "Splat!" I just hope that, when I get to that point, I, too, can finally sit up and run (although I'm not sure I want to run toward yet something else to climb!).
Anyway, that's how my day has gone so far....
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Interesting Readings
Interesting Readings
Walsh, Jason. “Information Wants to be Liquid.” Wired News 25 Jan. 2005. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66382,00.html (22 July 2006).
"Email is so last millennium. Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder--a parent, teacher, or a boss..." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13921601/
Liu, Ziming. "Reading Behavior in the Digital Environment: Changes in
Reading Behavior Over the Past Ten Years" /Journal of Documentation/
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/jd/jd.jsp
61(6)(2005): 700-712. - Interesting study on the changes in reading
behavior due to increased use of digital information. People highlight
less but search more; people read linearly less but show intense
concentration once sections are found that interest them. While
considerably more research is needed, this article is a good
introduction to the field. [plagiarised review from Bill Wolff, posted to techrhet@interversity.org (20 Dec. 2005)].
WIKIVERSITY
The organization that maintains the online encyclopedia Wikipedia
(http://www.wikipedia.org/ ) proposes the creation of Wikiversity, an
"electronic institution of learning that will be used to test the
limits of the wiki model both for developing electronic learning
resources as well as for teaching and for conducting research and
publishing results." Still in the initial startup phase, Wikiversity
could, at the least, be an open repository for educational materials.
Some Wiki board members also think it could serve as a host to online
courses, which, in turn, could lead to degree-granting programs. For
more information about Wikiversity, go to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity [original post by Carolyn Kotlas, posted to techrhet@interversity.org by mbulger (6 Jan. 2006)].
"Introducing the Hipster PDA." http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda/ (19 Feb. 2007).
Medero, Shawn. "Paper Prototyping." A List Apart. 23 Jan. 2007.
http://alistapart.com/articles/paperprototyping (19 Feb. 2007). "As interfaces become ever more complex and development schedules seem to get shorter and shorter, you may find it useful to give up your user-interface modeling software for awhile in favor of something simpler. All you need is paper, pens, scissors, and your imagination."
Carnevale, Dan. “Professors Seek Compensation for Online Courses." Chronicle of Higher Education 13 Aug. 2004. http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i49/49a02701.htm (3 Mar. 2007).
See if you can navigate this site. All you will ever want to know about "the click." http://www.dontclick.it. [Posted by Kami Cox 5 March 2007].
Michael Wresch, "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE . I've been using this in some of my classes, and I think it's very good at bringing in some of the issues that we are facing in the wake of changes in the technologies of communication. Of course, it might seem more useful to me because I'm familiar with the history (and some of the code and things!) it uses to demonstrate these changes. I'm curious as to how it might work for others. [4 Sep. 2008].
Walsh, Jason. “Information Wants to be Liquid.” Wired News 25 Jan. 2005. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66382,00.html (22 July 2006).
"Email is so last millennium. Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder--a parent, teacher, or a boss..." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13921601/
Liu, Ziming. "Reading Behavior in the Digital Environment: Changes in
Reading Behavior Over the Past Ten Years" /Journal of Documentation/
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/jd/jd.jsp
61(6)(2005): 700-712. - Interesting study on the changes in reading
behavior due to increased use of digital information. People highlight
less but search more; people read linearly less but show intense
concentration once sections are found that interest them. While
considerably more research is needed, this article is a good
introduction to the field. [plagiarised review from Bill Wolff, posted to techrhet@interversity.org (20 Dec. 2005)].
WIKIVERSITY
The organization that maintains the online encyclopedia Wikipedia
(http://www.wikipedia.org/ ) proposes the creation of Wikiversity, an
"electronic institution of learning that will be used to test the
limits of the wiki model both for developing electronic learning
resources as well as for teaching and for conducting research and
publishing results." Still in the initial startup phase, Wikiversity
could, at the least, be an open repository for educational materials.
Some Wiki board members also think it could serve as a host to online
courses, which, in turn, could lead to degree-granting programs. For
more information about Wikiversity, go to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity [original post by Carolyn Kotlas, posted to techrhet@interversity.org by mbulger (6 Jan. 2006)].
"Introducing the Hipster PDA." http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda/ (19 Feb. 2007).
Medero, Shawn. "Paper Prototyping." A List Apart. 23 Jan. 2007.
http://alistapart.com/articles/paperprototyping (19 Feb. 2007). "As interfaces become ever more complex and development schedules seem to get shorter and shorter, you may find it useful to give up your user-interface modeling software for awhile in favor of something simpler. All you need is paper, pens, scissors, and your imagination."
Carnevale, Dan. “Professors Seek Compensation for Online Courses." Chronicle of Higher Education 13 Aug. 2004. http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i49/49a02701.htm (3 Mar. 2007).
See if you can navigate this site. All you will ever want to know about "the click." http://www.dontclick.it. [Posted by Kami Cox 5 March 2007].
Michael Wresch, "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE . I've been using this in some of my classes, and I think it's very good at bringing in some of the issues that we are facing in the wake of changes in the technologies of communication. Of course, it might seem more useful to me because I'm familiar with the history (and some of the code and things!) it uses to demonstrate these changes. I'm curious as to how it might work for others. [4 Sep. 2008].
Monday, April 17, 2006
Kiwis Life Philosophies
Kiwi’s Life Philosophies
There are certain cogent philosophies by which I live my life. Just in case you want to know what they are, I’m listing some of the more important ones here.
There are certain cogent philosophies by which I live my life. Just in case you want to know what they are, I’m listing some of the more important ones here.
- Hurry! Only one day left until tomorrow! (seen on a roadside sign somewhere in Florida)
- The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you’re still a rat! (attributed to Lily Tomlin)
- Today is the first day of the rest of my life (or is today the last day of the first of my life?) Either way, attribution is unknown.
- No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Resources and stuff
Resources and Stuff
These resources are listed with neither rhyme nor reason (other than alphabetically because…). Someday perhaps I’ll come in and add subheadings and group these resources, but for now, this is simply a “house of memory.” If you have information or reviews of any of these sites (or “stuff”), please post them.
Adobe Buzzword, http://www.adobe.com/acom/buzzword/ "The first real word processor for the Web"
Angel Course Management Software, http://angellearning.com/
Archive.org, http://www.archive.org/index.php
AudioCasting, http://www.weblogg-ed.com/newsItems/departments/audiocasting
AVS Audio and Video Converters, http://www.avs4you.com/
BibDesk Mac OS Citation Manager, http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
BitTorrent, http://www.bittorrent.com/index.html
Blurb BookSmart, http://www.blurb.com/
Callwave Widgets (Think Outside the Phone), Visual Voicemail and TextMessaging widgets, http://www.callwave.com/landing/widgets.asp
CiteULike, A free online service to organise your academic papers, http://www.citeulike.org/
CORE, Comprehensive Online Research Education, an online tutorial, http://gemini.lib.purdue.edu/core/login/login.cfm
Crossref.org, http://www.crossref.org/
D&M Professional Education, The Audio-Visual University, http://www.education.d-mpro.com/
DailyLit (free 5-minute bites of the classics via email), http://www.dailylit.com/
Deli.icio.us, http://del.icio.us/
Dia, open-source visual-editing software, http://www.download.com/Dia/3000-2075_4-10833704.html?tag=mncol
Digg.com, http://www.digg.com/
Dotster, Web hosting, http://www.dotster.com/webhosting/webhosting_pkg_standard.php
Drupal Project, http://drupal.org/
E2Servers, Web hosting, http://e3servers.com/linux-web-hosting.htm
Elements, photoshop techniques, http://training.photoshopelementsuser.com/
Ereader.com, Ebooks for the Palm Pilot, http://www.ereader.com/
Fat Cow, Web hosting, http://www.fatcow.com/fatcow/index.bml
FinalSite, a content management system for education, http://www.finalsite.com/
Getty Images, http://www.gettyimages.com/
Gimp, http://www.gimp.org/ GNU Image Manipulation Program
Go Daddy, Web hosting, https://www.godaddy.com/
Google Docs and Spreadsheets, http://docs.google.com/
Google Page Creator, http://pages.google.com/
GrandCentral: The New Way to Use Your Phones, http://www.grandcentral.com/
GVC.Sitemaker, an Open Source global website creation and management system, http://www.gvcsitemaker.com/
gVisit.com, http://www.gvisit.com/ "Track visitors to your website [sic] using Google Maps."
HelloPDF, http://www.hellopdf.com/ "Free PDF to Word converter"
ICDSoft.com, Web hosting, http://www.icdsoft.com/
iFroggy, Web hosting, http://www.ifroggy.com/
IHMC CmapTools, http://cmaptools.com/ (See also Dia, Visio)
ImageChef, http://www.imagechef.com/ "Customize photos, clip art"
Inkscape, http://www.inkscape.org/
iPodder.org, PodCasts, http://www.ipodder.org/
Internic’s “WhoIs” search page, http://www.internic.net/whois.html
Interversity, a bureaucracy-free zone, http://interversity.org/
iText, http://sourceforge.net/projects/itext/
Kartoo.com, http://www.kartoo.com/
Knight Cite, Citation Creation Tool, http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php?op=newCitation
Landmark’s Citation Machine, http://citationmachine.net/
LiveScribe, http://www.livescribe.com/
Lulu, allows you to publish and sell online, http://www.lulu.com/
Lunar Pages, Web hosting, http://lunarpages.com/
Macromedia Fireworks Tutorial: Creating Pop-Up Menus (Cheryl Ball), http://cball.usu.edu/classes/pdfs/fireworks_pop-ups.doc
Make-A-Web-Site, a how-to guide for creating websites,http://www.make-a-web-site.org/making1.html
MediaPointe, http://www.everythingavoverip.com/
MegaUpload, http://megaupload.com/
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/default.aspx
Microsoft Photo Story 3, create slideshows, add special effects to digital photos, http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/p
hotostory/default.mspx
MobilPocket.com, Ebook reader for cell phones, http://www.mobilpocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/p800.asp?Origine=PAGE_P800
Mojopac, can turn any portable storage pack onto a personal computer, http://www.mojopac.com/portal/content/who/everyone.jsb
MOO.com, http://www.moo.com/ (Ok, Ok, so it's a printing service, but I LOVED the name...)
Moodle.com, http://moodle.com/
MUVEES Project, a multi-user virtual environmental experiential simulator, http://muve.gse.harvard.edu/muvees20033/
My Janee, Online tutorials, http://www.myjanee.home.insightbb.com.tutorials.htm/
Network Solutions, Web hosting, http://networksolutions.com/
nuTsie, http://www.nutsie.com/main
Nvu, a complete Web authorizing system for Linux Desktop users, http://www.nvu.com/
Onfolio, for collecting, organizing, and sharing online, http://www.onfolio.com/
Online CV portfolio, http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~klarola/
OpenOffice (ODF Converter), http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter or read more at, http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070202-8764.html
Opera Web browser, http://www.opera.com/
Pegaweb, Online tutorials, http://www.pegaweb.com/
Phong, photoshop tutorials, http://www.phong.com/
PHP Web Hosting, http://www.phpwebhosting.com/
Podcasting Projects, by Todd Maffin, http://www.todmaffin.com/podcasting/
Podcasting workshop, CW 2006, http://www.siteslab.org/workshops/podcast
PollDaddy, http://www.polldaddy.com/
Poynter, journalism tutorial, http://www.poynter.org/
Prezi.com, "The zooming editor for stunning presentations," http://prezi.com/
ProtoTerra, Vision 1.0, http://www.prototerra.com/
Quia, educational resources for teachers, http://www.quia.com/servlets/quia.web.QuiaWebManager
QuirksMode, the personal and professional site of Peter-Paul Koch, http://www.quirksmode.org/home.shtml
Radiant Vista, photoshop tutorials, http://www.radiantvista.com/pdf_tutorials/ Read/Write/Think, http://www.readwritethink.org/
Register, Web hosting, http://www.register.com/retail/index.rcmx
Replay Music, The Worldwide Leader in Streaming Recording, http://www.applian.com/replay-music/index.php?src=GMUSIC_REPLAYMUSIC
Review of Sony’s Ebook Reader, dotcomu, http://www.dottocomu.com/b/archives/002571.html
Roush, Wade. “When the Web Was New,” Technology Review 4 Apr. 2005, http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/04/wo/wo_040405web.asp?p=1
Sakai: Collaboration and Learning Environment for Education, http://sakaiproject.org/
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
Scholastic, for help with writing, http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/teachwriting/index.htm
Scirus, http://www.scirus.com/ A "free, science-specific, search engine.
Scratch, http://scratch.mit.edu/
Site 5, Web hosting, http://site5.com/hosting
skrbl beta, a shareable online whiteboard, http://www.skrbl.com/
Skype, http://www.skype.com/
SnagIt (Screen Captures), http://www.tucows.com/preview/195062
Sonicfoundry, http://www.sonicfoundry.com/ (See their MediaSite Podcasting Solution)
Spoono, Photoshop tutorials, http://www.spoono.com/photoshop/tutorials/
SSH (Secure Shell) Communications Security, http://www.ssh.com/
StumbleUpon, http://www.stumbleupon.com/
SurveyMonkey, http://www.surveymonkey.com/
Swarm, http://swarm.wide.msu.edu/"Swarm helps you get feedback on your writing from friends and colleagues."
Switch Audio File Conversion Software, http://www.nch.com.au/switch/
Tech Connect, integrates computer technology into the classroom, http://techconnect.glencoe.com/tc/jsp/TcHome.jsp
Teleflip, get email on your cell phone. https://www.teleflip.com/
Thinkquest, a Student-Built Site, http://www.thinkquest.org/oct04jun05/index.shtml,
http://www.thinkquest.org/apr04dec04/index.shtml,
http://www.thinkquest.org/oct03may04/index.shtml
Viddler - The best way to watch and publish your videos, http://www.viddler.com/
Vimeo, Video sharing for You, http://www.vimeo.com/
VirtuSphere Immersive Virtual Reality, http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=462
Voice thread, http://voicethread.com/ "A powerful new way to talk about and share your images, documents, and videos"
Vox Proxy, 3D talking animated characters, http://www.voxproxy.com.index.swf/
Web Editing Tools List, http://www.maryfo.com/mfo/general_resources/free/web_edit.htm
Webtools4u2use, http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/
Wetpaint, http://www.wetpaint.com/ Free wiki Web sites
WikiBooks.org, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal
WikiHow, http://wiki.ehow.com/Main-Page
WikiSpaces.org, http://www.wikispaces.com/
Windows Live, http://www.windowslive.com/
Wink, Tutorial and Presentation creation software, http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
Word Detective, Words and Language in a Humorous Vein, on the Web since 1995, http://www.word-detective.com/
Writely, the Web Word Processor, http://www.writely.com/
Writing Across the Curriculum, Christopher Newport University, http://writingcenter.cnu.edu/wac/
WurldBook, Personal Internet Intelligence, http://www.wurldbook.com/info/
YouSendIt, http://www.yousendit.com/
YouTube: Broadcast Yourself, http://www.youtube.com/
Of interest to Georgia Southern University faculty only:
Technical writing links:
Prospring, Technical Staffing, Technical Writing, Training and Development, http://www.prospring.net/
Proofreading and Editing: Business, Government and Technical Publications, Austin Community College, http://www.io.com/~tcm/etwr2371/etwr2371sched_classroom.html
Techniques for Editing Online:
Change Tracking, http://www.io.com/~tcm/etwr2371/planners/onlined_track.html
These resources are listed with neither rhyme nor reason (other than alphabetically because…). Someday perhaps I’ll come in and add subheadings and group these resources, but for now, this is simply a “house of memory.” If you have information or reviews of any of these sites (or “stuff”), please post them.
Adobe Buzzword, http://www.adobe.com/acom/buzzword/ "The first real word processor for the Web"
Angel Course Management Software, http://angellearning.com/
Archive.org, http://www.archive.org/index.php
AudioCasting, http://www.weblogg-ed.com/newsItems/departments/audiocasting
AVS Audio and Video Converters, http://www.avs4you.com/
BibDesk Mac OS Citation Manager, http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
BitTorrent, http://www.bittorrent.com/index.html
Blurb BookSmart, http://www.blurb.com/
Callwave Widgets (Think Outside the Phone), Visual Voicemail and TextMessaging widgets, http://www.callwave.com/landing/widgets.asp
CiteULike, A free online service to organise your academic papers, http://www.citeulike.org/
CORE, Comprehensive Online Research Education, an online tutorial, http://gemini.lib.purdue.edu/core/login/login.cfm
Crossref.org, http://www.crossref.org/
D&M Professional Education, The Audio-Visual University, http://www.education.d-mpro.com/
DailyLit (free 5-minute bites of the classics via email), http://www.dailylit.com/
Deli.icio.us, http://del.icio.us/
Dia, open-source visual-editing software, http://www.download.com/Dia/3000-2075_4-10833704.html?tag=mncol
Digg.com, http://www.digg.com/
Dotster, Web hosting, http://www.dotster.com/webhosting/webhosting_pkg_standard.php
Drupal Project, http://drupal.org/
E2Servers, Web hosting, http://e3servers.com/linux-web-hosting.htm
Elements, photoshop techniques, http://training.photoshopelementsuser.com/
Ereader.com, Ebooks for the Palm Pilot, http://www.ereader.com/
Fat Cow, Web hosting, http://www.fatcow.com/fatcow/index.bml
FinalSite, a content management system for education, http://www.finalsite.com/
Getty Images, http://www.gettyimages.com/
Gimp, http://www.gimp.org/ GNU Image Manipulation Program
Go Daddy, Web hosting, https://www.godaddy.com/
Google Docs and Spreadsheets, http://docs.google.com/
Google Page Creator, http://pages.google.com/
GrandCentral: The New Way to Use Your Phones, http://www.grandcentral.com/
GVC.Sitemaker, an Open Source global website creation and management system, http://www.gvcsitemaker.com/
gVisit.com, http://www.gvisit.com/ "Track visitors to your website [sic] using Google Maps."
HelloPDF, http://www.hellopdf.com/ "Free PDF to Word converter"
ICDSoft.com, Web hosting, http://www.icdsoft.com/
iFroggy, Web hosting, http://www.ifroggy.com/
IHMC CmapTools, http://cmaptools.com/ (See also Dia, Visio)
ImageChef, http://www.imagechef.com/ "Customize photos, clip art"
Inkscape, http://www.inkscape.org/
iPodder.org, PodCasts, http://www.ipodder.org/
Internic’s “WhoIs” search page, http://www.internic.net/whois.html
Interversity, a bureaucracy-free zone, http://interversity.org/
iText, http://sourceforge.net/projects/itext/
Kartoo.com, http://www.kartoo.com/
Knight Cite, Citation Creation Tool, http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php?op=newCitation
Landmark’s Citation Machine, http://citationmachine.net/
LiveScribe, http://www.livescribe.com/
Lulu, allows you to publish and sell online, http://www.lulu.com/
Lunar Pages, Web hosting, http://lunarpages.com/
Macromedia Fireworks Tutorial: Creating Pop-Up Menus (Cheryl Ball), http://cball.usu.edu/classes/pdfs/fireworks_pop-ups.doc
Make-A-Web-Site, a how-to guide for creating websites,http://www.make-a-web-site.org/making1.html
MediaPointe, http://www.everythingavoverip.com/
MegaUpload, http://megaupload.com/
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/default.aspx
Microsoft Photo Story 3, create slideshows, add special effects to digital photos, http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/p
hotostory/default.mspx
MobilPocket.com, Ebook reader for cell phones, http://www.mobilpocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/p800.asp?Origine=PAGE_P800
Mojopac, can turn any portable storage pack onto a personal computer, http://www.mojopac.com/portal/content/who/everyone.jsb
MOO.com, http://www.moo.com/ (Ok, Ok, so it's a printing service, but I LOVED the name...)
Moodle.com, http://moodle.com/
MUVEES Project, a multi-user virtual environmental experiential simulator, http://muve.gse.harvard.edu/muvees20033/
My Janee, Online tutorials, http://www.myjanee.home.insightbb.com.tutorials.htm/
Network Solutions, Web hosting, http://networksolutions.com/
nuTsie, http://www.nutsie.com/main
Nvu, a complete Web authorizing system for Linux Desktop users, http://www.nvu.com/
Onfolio, for collecting, organizing, and sharing online, http://www.onfolio.com/
Online CV portfolio, http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~klarola/
OpenOffice (ODF Converter), http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter or read more at, http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070202-8764.html
Opera Web browser, http://www.opera.com/
Pegaweb, Online tutorials, http://www.pegaweb.com/
Phong, photoshop tutorials, http://www.phong.com/
PHP Web Hosting, http://www.phpwebhosting.com/
Podcasting Projects, by Todd Maffin, http://www.todmaffin.com/podcasting/
Podcasting workshop, CW 2006, http://www.siteslab.org/workshops/podcast
PollDaddy, http://www.polldaddy.com/
Poynter, journalism tutorial, http://www.poynter.org/
Prezi.com, "The zooming editor for stunning presentations," http://prezi.com/
ProtoTerra, Vision 1.0, http://www.prototerra.com/
Quia, educational resources for teachers, http://www.quia.com/servlets/quia.web.QuiaWebManager
QuirksMode, the personal and professional site of Peter-Paul Koch, http://www.quirksmode.org/home.shtml
Radiant Vista, photoshop tutorials, http://www.radiantvista.com/pdf_tutorials/ Read/Write/Think, http://www.readwritethink.org/
Register, Web hosting, http://www.register.com/retail/index.rcmx
Replay Music, The Worldwide Leader in Streaming Recording, http://www.applian.com/replay-music/index.php?src=GMUSIC_REPLAYMUSIC
Review of Sony’s Ebook Reader, dotcomu, http://www.dottocomu.com/b/archives/002571.html
Roush, Wade. “When the Web Was New,” Technology Review 4 Apr. 2005, http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/04/wo/wo_040405web.asp?p=1
Sakai: Collaboration and Learning Environment for Education, http://sakaiproject.org/
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
Scholastic, for help with writing, http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/teachwriting/index.htm
Scirus, http://www.scirus.com/ A "free, science-specific, search engine.
Scratch, http://scratch.mit.edu/
Site 5, Web hosting, http://site5.com/hosting
skrbl beta, a shareable online whiteboard, http://www.skrbl.com/
Skype, http://www.skype.com/
SnagIt (Screen Captures), http://www.tucows.com/preview/195062
Sonicfoundry, http://www.sonicfoundry.com/ (See their MediaSite Podcasting Solution)
Spoono, Photoshop tutorials, http://www.spoono.com/photoshop/tutorials/
SSH (Secure Shell) Communications Security, http://www.ssh.com/
StumbleUpon, http://www.stumbleupon.com/
SurveyMonkey, http://www.surveymonkey.com/
Swarm, http://swarm.wide.msu.edu/"Swarm helps you get feedback on your writing from friends and colleagues."
Switch Audio File Conversion Software, http://www.nch.com.au/switch/
Tech Connect, integrates computer technology into the classroom, http://techconnect.glencoe.com/tc/jsp/TcHome.jsp
Teleflip, get email on your cell phone. https://www.teleflip.com/
Thinkquest, a Student-Built Site, http://www.thinkquest.org/oct04jun05/index.shtml,
http://www.thinkquest.org/apr04dec04/index.shtml,
http://www.thinkquest.org/oct03may04/index.shtml
Viddler - The best way to watch and publish your videos, http://www.viddler.com/
Vimeo, Video sharing for You, http://www.vimeo.com/
VirtuSphere Immersive Virtual Reality, http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=462
Voice thread, http://voicethread.com/ "A powerful new way to talk about and share your images, documents, and videos"
Vox Proxy, 3D talking animated characters, http://www.voxproxy.com.index.swf/
Web Editing Tools List, http://www.maryfo.com/mfo/general_resources/free/web_edit.htm
Webtools4u2use, http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/
Wetpaint, http://www.wetpaint.com/ Free wiki Web sites
WikiBooks.org, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal
WikiHow, http://wiki.ehow.com/Main-Page
WikiSpaces.org, http://www.wikispaces.com/
Windows Live, http://www.windowslive.com/
Wink, Tutorial and Presentation creation software, http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
Word Detective, Words and Language in a Humorous Vein, on the Web since 1995, http://www.word-detective.com/
Writely, the Web Word Processor, http://www.writely.com/
Writing Across the Curriculum, Christopher Newport University, http://writingcenter.cnu.edu/wac/
WurldBook, Personal Internet Intelligence, http://www.wurldbook.com/info/
YouSendIt, http://www.yousendit.com/
YouTube: Broadcast Yourself, http://www.youtube.com/
Of interest to Georgia Southern University faculty only:
Technical writing links:
Prospring, Technical Staffing, Technical Writing, Training and Development, http://www.prospring.net/
Proofreading and Editing: Business, Government and Technical Publications, Austin Community College, http://www.io.com/~tcm/etwr2371/etwr2371sched_classroom.html
Techniques for Editing Online:
Change Tracking, http://www.io.com/~tcm/etwr2371/planners/onlined_track.html
Reasons
So, I finally decided to become a blogger. Yes, yes, I’ve had this blog for some time (though I have now deleted all of my previous posts because they were—well, they were!). But I never really could think of a reason to use this blog.
So, now I still don’t have a reason for doing this, but as I’ve looked at other blogs across the Internet I’ve come to the conclusion that most bloggers don’t have a reason either. They just are.
What I would really like to do here—at least for now—is simply play. Perhaps I can use this space to keep me reminded of all the wonderful resources I come across on various listservs from my colleagues, students, friends, and family.
At least, that sounds like something useful.
Maybe not.
We’ll see. (
So… here we go!!!
So, now I still don’t have a reason for doing this, but as I’ve looked at other blogs across the Internet I’ve come to the conclusion that most bloggers don’t have a reason either. They just are.
What I would really like to do here—at least for now—is simply play. Perhaps I can use this space to keep me reminded of all the wonderful resources I come across on various listservs from my colleagues, students, friends, and family.
At least, that sounds like something useful.
Maybe not.
We’ll see. (
So… here we go!!!
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