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• Technology’s Impact on Education

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  Technology’s Impact on Education | Visual.ly .
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• Wikipedia:VisualEditor – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  Wikipedia is testing a visual editor, in the hopes of lowering the barrier for first-time contributors.  Wikipedia:VisualEditor  
  1 week ago

• Positive Feedback on a Blogging Assignment

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  A former student who is now excelling in grad school took a moment to share her thoughts about my blogging portfolio assignment, which is usually 25-40% of a student’s grade. In April, a different former whom I invited to speak to my class, who blogged for me in several classes, surprised me by saying: ...
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• It’s Not What You Say; It’s What Google Says

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  “More people will learn about your institution from Wikipedia than from your own site,” the panelist said. “And in a crisis, more people will learn about what happened from Facebook and Twitter than from your own press releases.” That was a sobering assessment to many of us in the room. – Its Not What You ...
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• Google Will Soon Launch Google Web Designer, A …

  
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  See on Scoop.it – Media – Traditional and Online Media Google will soon launch Google Web Designer, an HTML5 development tool for “creative professionals.” The service, Google says, will launch within “the coming months” and is meant to “empower creati… See on www.scoop.it
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• Press X to Teach

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  Ready to mash up gaming and teaching at Computers and Writing 2013. Press X to Teach .
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• Workshops in Atlantic Highlands, NJ for Mental Health Professionals and Coaches!

  
  Mental Health on the Web — Authority: 88
  . A month or so ago I reported that there were changes coming and that I would be offering small continuing education and professional development workshops so now I am glad to offer the new training schedule! The following workshops are conducted as small group intensives with a maximum of 6 participants. ...
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• Teenage Usability (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  Teens often work on laptops with track pads, making interactions that require precision — such as drop-down menus, drag-n-drop, and small buttons — difficult. Design elements such as rollover effects and small click zones are also problematic, if they’re usable at all. Small text sizes and dense text make ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kairos: Open Since 1996

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  As a plucky new faculty member I wrote a  critique of an early design for the online journal Kairos . My article was snarky in form (I invoked Mystery Science Theater 3000) but serious in intent (“The overdesigned  Kairos  site  perpetuates the myth that online rhetoric is necessarily complex and arcane ,” ...
  2 weeks ago

• An internet monopoly?: Google’s products scrutinised | Feature | Cyberculture

  
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  Google’s recent I/O conference revealed a number of new strategies, consolidations and initiatives, but is the search giant’s vision exceeding its capability? A wide range of services There are some big names and brands in their own right under Google’s umbrella, including YouTube. The number of plates ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Atari Dump’ Will Be Excavated, After Nearly 30 Years

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  The New Mexico landfill or “Atari Dump” where the game console maker buried its mistakes — the biggest being the game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — will be dug up by game developer Fuel Industries, which hopes to make a documentary about the project. Also known as the “Atari Graveyard” or the “E.T. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Multimedia | Computers and Writing 2013

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  Earlier this week, the Computers and Writing folks discussed the decline in the use of the word “computer” in MLA job ads. The decline is more than offset by a rise in related terms, so the discussion appropriately focused on the value of “computers” as an umbrella term. (In our daily lives, we increasingly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Students say “math class is stupid and boring,” and they are right. –Mathematician Paul Lockhart

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  I am working on some conference papers that touch on coding as a liberal art. While reviewing classics, like Stephenson’s In the Beginning Was the Command Line and Knuth’s approach to “ Literate Programming ,” From the insightful and quirky “A Mathematician’s Lament,” by Paul Lockhart . A musician ...
  3 weeks ago

• Diana Kimball on “What Scares Us About Programming?”

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  A few months old, but still interesting: entrepreneur and digital culture promoter Diana Kimball responds to a hacker brainstorming session. Alex Payne recently posted a picture  of this whiteboard from  Hacker School , and it rings wildly true to me. I was interested and encouraged to see that the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is Internet English Debasing The Language? Not IMHO

  
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  WTF? Tell us yr thoughts in the comments. Steven Poole defends the corruption of the Queen’s English for the Guardian : The internet might be a historic boon for kitten-fanciers and steaming-eared trolls, but it’s not all good news. Online writing, you see, is destroying the purity of English as we know it and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is Internet English Debasing The Language? Not IMHO

  
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  WTF? Tell us yr thoughts in the comments. Steven Poole defends the corruption of the Queen’s English for the Guardian: The internet might be a historic boon for kitten-fanciers and steaming-eared trolls, but it’s not all good news. Online writing, you see, is destroying the purity of English as we know it and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Yahoo, You Nagged Me Too Many Times; Bye!

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  I have a Yahoo account that I use when a website or a local business insists I must provide an email address. Over the years, it has gotten clogged with spam. The filter is actually pretty good, so I can always find what I need, but it’s not usually a service I check more than once a day. At the moment I am working ...
  3 weeks ago

• Melissa Terras Reports Her Success in Making Digital Humanities More Inclusive

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  A pleasant little success story. “TEI” is the “Text Encoding Initiative,” an international effort to define and standardize the digital representation of texts. [I]n 2006 I first noticed that the TEI guidelines encouraged the use of ISO5218:2004 to assign sexuality of persons in a document (with attributes ...
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• Anthony Weiner, Reality Star of Sorts, Returns to the Stump

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  Because my beginning journalism students often use the phrase “when asked about” as a default (lazy) transition when introducing quotes, I created a scenario in which President Bush apparently expresses a desire to be a cuddly bunny. In the example, a child reporter gives him two options — would he rather be a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Academic blogging: pleasure and credit

  
  Jerz's Literacy Weblog — Authority: 120
  To be honest, I’m not optimistic that there’s a way to gain the recognition that many academic bloggers have longed for without destroying what I believe is the real value of academic blogging, which is in many ways about pleasing yourself, escaping the targets and the quotas and the faceless bean-counters; about ...
  3 weeks ago

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