Academic Writing Part 2
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This is a follow-up to my previous entry on this subject.
If you are looking for a website to help you teach academic writing to university students (whether EFL students or native-English-speaking students), I recommend those by Gavin Budge (Writing for the Reader), and by Andy Gillett: Academic Writing.
As many of my students don’t [...]
Map of future forces affecting education
Via Information Aesthetics (a mesmerizing blog, a visual feast), comes this link to an interesting map at Knowledgeworks Foundation & The Institute for the Future
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Online photo editor
I just bought a new computer (Windows Vista) which comes with some very basic photo editing software (I’m also playing with Picasa to see if that will do the resizing and cropping that I want), the rather clunky Windows photo gallery (at least that’s what it’s called in Japanese), so when I read Larry Ferlazzo’s [...]
Read more »Cool tool: Flickrdown
My computer died and took all my photos with it. Some are still alive, tho, on a couple of Flickr accounts I have. Downloading them 1 by 1 is such a pain, tho, that I looked around for an easier way, and found Flickrdown by Gregg Man. I could not access Gregg’s homepage, but was [...]
Read more »Plagued by students plagiarising?
I’ve been using Snagit, a Windows program that takes screenshots including grabs of scrolling windows, and they send me a newsletter every now and then. Today’s a link to a website that allows you to input some (student-written) text and see if it’s been plagiarised or not. I’ve no idea how it works, or if [...]
Read more »Ning
From Quentin D’Souza to Classroom 2.0 to Ning, via Steve Dembo’s review of Ning. Check it out. Though not everyone is so ecstatic.
Read more »Whine – performancing won’t work
Performancing is a great tool. Want to blog about a web-page you’re looking at? Just right-click to bring up the Performancing Firefox add-on interface and start typing.
Only problem is… it doesn’t work! Not with the new Google Blogger. Some problem with the fonts, I dunno. Anyway, I’m dumping it for the time being. More trouble [...]
Your teaching environment
It’s a meme that’s going around. No-one tagged me (yet, boo-hoo), but this blog post by Eric, complete with neat Gliffy diagram) sparked my imagination. Where I work, we’re not allowed to put things on the walls or leave non-standard (i.e. personalized) furniture in any classroom. The classrooms don’t belong to any teacher, or any [...]
Read more »Can’t WriteToMyBlog
Thru Borderland’s Google Reader feed I discovered WriteToMyBlog It looks cool, and I’m all for web-based applications. Only one problem – I can’t for the life of me get it to work! I always get an error message when I click “Manage posts” or “publish”. Can’t be bothered to write [...]
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