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Sunday, February 1, 2009
One of the features of Sakai that our team was looking for in a new LMS is a blogging tool. However, it does give us the option of blogging within the system. We’re still using those tools for some courses, depending on the content and activities, but we’re starting to integrate this internal blog into our activities.
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Friday, June 4, 2010
A lot of people frequently ask me about the difference between Technical Writing and Instructional Design. Technical Writing. Technical Writing also called Information Development pertains to the software/hardware industries and basically involves writing documents for software/hardware products. Technical Blogs.
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Since then, I’ve discovered a wealth of blogs by instructional designers, e-learning developers, and workplace learning specialists. Tracy Hamilton writes Discovery through eLearning. learning.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Plain English isn’t dull writing, and it’s not about banning new or long words. It’s all about using words that are easier to read and understand, and faster to write! Here are our top ten tips for writing an e-learning course in plain English. Think before you write. Write like you speak. Tags: Blog
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Anyone who blogs regularly will have discovered several truths. Many people struggle to maintain a regular blog that is consistently good, or at least meaningful. Although you are only as good as your last blog, all your previously blogs are also out there, archived, published for people to read (and for you to revisit, if you wish).
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
What is Good Writing? Rubrics and Good Writing One of my favorite conversation topics is always looking at how school has changed from when I went through. When I was going through school, I often felt that my writing assignments were judged arbitrarily. Still, there's a push to better define good writing. It was clear.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Along with this there are so many nuggets of information that we should all be aware of (when writing and writing for blogs). Read and enjoy Arun’s presentation “How To Write An Awesome Blog Post&#. How To Write An Awesome Blog Post. Related posts: Mistakes made in Academic Blogs.
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Week 1: Blogs: Day 1. Blog is short for ‘Web Log.&# So many people have told me that they think blogs are only good for “verbal vomit.&# Yes, that can be true, but that is not how WE are going to use them. This is written on my blog. Blogs are made by creating a series of ‘posts.’
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Friday, June 19, 2009
I published two journal articles recently on the use of wikis in teaching and learning, and I'm making them available here on this blog. The second article was written from the same data, but this time with the emphasis on the use of wikis to promote quality academic writing. Tags: academic writing wiki social practice
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Recently, I have been asked about blogging a few times, both from friends and professionally. was asked how to make your blog searchable, how do people find the blogs, can a blog be found by searching on Google or other search engines? am no authority in blogging, so IM’very’HO I shared my blogging experiences with them.
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