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Nice and easy writing & an Annotation Tool
distraction-free writing environment
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Receommened via http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/scrible-a-new-tool-for-web-annotation/33240?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
A few links about social networking
So now it is several links about social networking and social media
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presentation using social media in education
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“To date, we witness the mass adoption of social networks. Roughly every 10th citizen of this planet uses these services to communicate with others. For the satisfaction of human need like socialization and self-esteem, users visit these services – very often more than daily. In communication, regardless of online or offline, people put their privacies at risk for some benefit.’
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share tools with your friends
An Agglomeration of links about the Internet
A few links about the Internet that I used with my CPSC 104 class.
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A popular video about Internet history
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Yet another good ‘In Plain English’ video
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online quiz
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infograpic intro to how the Internet works.
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http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/314134/june-30-2010/nicholas-carr?xrs=share_copy
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Here's the info your browser carries around while you're surfing:
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WSJ's page about digital news
Google’s Art Project
Google’s Art Project is an excellent view of several museums and some extreme close-up view of a few world famous paintings.
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museums and individual art
The National Jukebox
The Library of Congress announced its online offerings of American music titled “The National Jukebox.”A nice interface into the audio collections at Library of Congress.
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The National Jukebox
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announcement and write-up about LOC music available online
APtBS in Austin, TX at Psych Fest 2011
Several links about APtBS in Austin, TX at Psych Fest 2011.
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video 2011
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Initial Friday’s highlights included Radio Moscow’s scorching six-strings and Atlas Sound’s muted musings but those were just a prelude to two of my favorites. The Crystal Stilts and A Place To Bury Strangers were both in top form; the former furnished a hazy psych-pop soundscape on the main stage before a distorted, feedback drenched aural assault by the latter A Place To Bury Strangers blew away all in attendance.
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video
Icon search engine, analyzing logs, forming groups
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Icon search engine
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An alternative to analyzing the local logs on your web server web is to integrate a hosted web analytics solution.
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:Enter the Group Rumbler, or GRumbler, a tool designed by Malcolm K. Sparrow, a Professor of the Practice of Public Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. It is available free of charge as an Excel workbook (.xls file) from his website, along with extensive documentation.:
Three Interviews with Oliver, April 2011
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I’ve always used anything that I can make and get my hands on. It is always an experiment, and that is what keeps things interesting. Being able to create my own effects really adds to the experience. Death By Audio builds some of the sounds I wanted to achieve, but couldn’t with anything I could get my hands on. We also build custom effects for bands which I think share some of this aesthetic, like Nine Inch Nails, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, and more.
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“Guitar abuser, killer vocalist, and pedal mastermind Oliver Ackermann sat down and answered some questions while in the middle of a 14 show run through Texas, which included 12 at SXSW music festival.”
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“Â Just the typical near apocalyptic aftermath of experiencing A Place to Bury Strangers live. “
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I’ve never made it a secret. A Place to Bury Strangers is my favorite modern era band, which is evident due to all of the writing and photographs I’ve posted on the Dregs.
Using Google Docs for Grading
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“Enter Google Documents, one of our favorite cloud-based tools. I’ve been using it for some time now as a way for students to submit their work. But it wasn’t until I read Andrew Cullison’s “Grade Student Papers Using Google Forms†that I tried using Google Documents for grading.”
