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My Favorite Things: Tools and Tips to Facilitate Content.

Dashe & Thomson

Remember, Visio is not a standard part of MS Office and requires a separate license (and it’s expensive). I needed a flow charting tool that could be accessed by the entire group with nothing more than an Internet connection. After a little research, I landed at Gliffy.com , and so far have not looked back. All Rights Reserved.

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My Favorite Things: Tools and Tips to Facilitate Content Development

Dashe & Thomson

Remember, Visio is not a standard part of MS Office and requires a separate license (and it’s expensive). I needed a flow charting tool that could be accessed by the entire group with nothing more than an Internet connection. After a little research, I landed at Gliffy.com , and so far have not looked back. All Rights Reserved.

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Theories for the digital age: Paragogy

Learning with e's

The user generated content currently available on the web has been criticised for its inconsistent quality (Carr, 2010) and its potential to encourage plagiarism, piracy and a host of other nefarious practices (Keen, 2007). 2002) Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching. Unported License. Brabazon, T.

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Are we more intelligent?

Learning with e's

Carr's essential thesis is that we are bombarded with content on the Internet, and cope with this by reducing our depth of study whilst increasing our breadth of study. In other words, he argues, we tend to skim read and miss out on the richness of meaning we would have absorbed pre-internet. Unported License. London: W.

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

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One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). 2010) The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.

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The Online Teacher

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Blockbuster went out of business in 2010 because it failed to keep up with its emerging competitors like Netflix. Once they’ve identified the appropriate ones, instructors should verify that they hold the necessary licenses to ensure that each tool can be used to satisfy its purpose.

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Not so shallow

Learning with e's

It''s like many books that have recently critiqued the Internet Age. It has one message - the Internet is dumbing down society by trivialising knowledge. Carr''s book develops this argument a little further by arguing that the things we do on the Internet have a physical effect on our brains. Unported License.