by
ClickView (Firm)
Call Number
XX(301231.1)
Summary
Wikis and blogs are becoming increasingly available on the Internet for anyone to read or create their own. They are also increasingly being used as teaching tools in the classroom. In this programme, we discuss what wikis and blogs are and the differences between them. Students and teachers alike will see how these tools can be used in education, through various examples of use in the classroom. Viewers also meet the CEO and founder of edublogs.com, John Farmer, who demonstrates how easy it is to create your very own wikis and blogs. This is a fascinating look at how incorporating these online tools teaching and learning can enhance and encourage participation in any classroom.
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Other
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71876.7656
by
Presswood, Alane L., author.
Call Number
006.7 PRE
Publication Date
2020
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Electronic Resources
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52744.8047
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Bolander, Brook, author.
Call Number
302.23 23
Publication Date
2013
Format:
Electronic Resources
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50826.6914
by
Grey, Dorien.
Call Number
813.54 23
Publication Date
2011
Summary
Lambda-nominated author Dorien Grey (The Dick Hardesty Mysteries, The Elliott Smith Mysteries) knows more than just how to write a great murder novel. He's also had amazing life experiences in the military and around the world. Here, for the first time, are the collected blog and journal writings of this prolific author. As Grey notes, Sometimes things are more clearly seen through the eyes of others. The hope is that the reader will see similarities to his/her own life, and recognize the commonality of the human condition.
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Electronic Resources
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49104.0273
by
Jacob, Dianne, 1955-, author.
Call Number
808.066641 JAC
Publication Date
2015
Summary
For more than 15 years, writing coach, editor, and blogger Dianne Jacob has taught food lovers how to take their passion from the plate to the page. Now, Jacob has revised and updated her award-winning guide. Whether you've been writing for years or are just starting out, Will Write for Food offers what you need to know to succeed and thrive, including: - A new chapter dedicated to making an income from food writing - Updated information about self-publishing and cookbook production - Tips on creating and sustaining an irresistible blog with gorgeous photos - The keys to successful freelancing and reviewing - Advice from award-winning writers, editors, and agents - Engaging, fun writing exercises to get the juices flowing.
Format:
Books
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46123.3711
by
Charles Wankel.
Call Number
371.3344678 23
Publication Date
2012
Summary
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Online Learning Activities: Wikis, Blogs and WebQuests uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to critically examine how these technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills, student subject awareness, and literacy create engaging communities of practice, and as experiential learning tools. Chapters include ones on the design for a robust use of wikis, using blogs to enhance student engagement by creating a community of practice around a course, integrating blogs across a range of college level courses, publishing activist biographies on Wikipedia, using blogs to increase off-campus student engagement, using video and wiki technology to engage learners in large international cohorts, using wikis as an experiential learning tool, consuming and constructing knowledge through WebQuests, and rethinking WebQuests in second language teacher education. This volume will also discuss frameworks for deploying and assessing the effectiveness of these technologies.
Format:
Electronic Resources
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41501.1328
by
Silver, Tessa Blakeley.
Call Number
006.752 22
Publication Date
2009
Summary
"It's easy to create powerful and professional themes for your WordPress web site when you've got this book to hand. It provides clear, step-by-step instructions to create a robust and flexible WordPress theme, along with best practices for theme development. It will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It reviews the best practices from development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme's template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks, and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins"--Resource description page.
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Electronic Resources
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40548.8984
by
Wankel, Laura A.
Call Number
371.3344678 23
Publication Date
2012
Summary
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Social Technologies: Facebook, e-portfolios and other Social Networking Services uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to examine how these social media technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills in students, create engaging communities of practice, and how these tools are being used for e-Mentoring and constructing online reputations. Chapters include applying positive psychology and cognitive styles in user design, designing outcome based curricula using student personality types, engaging second language students through electronic writing tasks, applying psychological variables on the academic use of social media, using social media to motivate students to take charge of their own learning processes, and creatively using technology to enhance teacher education. This volume will also discuss a framework for deploying and assessing these technologies in higher education institutions.
Format:
Electronic Resources
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40546.2539
by
Crompton, Diane, 1956-
Call Number
650.1402854678 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
If you want to land a new job or advance in your career, social networking should be a key element of your job search of career management strategy. This hands-on guide takes you from understanding what social networking is and why you should do it, to preparing you to work the virtual room, to actually using the various social media.--[from book].
Format:
Electronic Resources
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38820.2773
by
Harrison, Lesley A.
Call Number
006.78 22
Publication Date
2009
Summary
"This book will take you through the setup of a WordPress MU-powered blogging network, using a real, working blog network as an example, so that you can follow the creation process step-by-step. Your blogging network will be complete with professional features such as friends lists, status feeds, groups, forums, photo galleries, and more, to build your own WordPress.com - a place where users can quickly come and create a blog for themselves. The book starts with a clean install of WordPress MU, and as you work through the book, you will build the blog network, and add on more and more features, all seamlessly integrated to achieve a professional, custom-built look"--Resource description page.
Format:
Electronic Resources
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38038.2539
by
Mehta, Nirav.
Call Number
005.276 22
Publication Date
2009
Format:
Electronic Resources
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31266.3789
by
Prelovac, Vladimir.
Call Number
006.7 22
Publication Date
2009
Summary
"WordPress Plug-in Development (Beginner's Guide) focuses on teaching you all aspects of modern WordPress development. The book uses real and published WordPress plug-ins and follows their creation from the idea to the finishing touches, in a series of carefully picked, easy-to-follow tutorials. You will discover how to use the WordPress API in all typical situations, from displaying output on the site in the beginning to turning WordPress into a CMS in the last chapter. In Chapters 2 to 7 you will develop six concrete plug-ins and conquer all aspects of WordPress development"--Resource description page.
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Electronic Resources
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2.8881
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