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July 2007 - Posts

Mashable's PDF Toolbox

Mashable posted a very nice annotated compilation of PDF tools . I use one tool that's not mentioned in the list: PDF X-Change Viewer . It loads fast, as touted. It also allows me to type into PDF forms meant for printing. Handy! Read More...
Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 10:27 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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Wiki, smiki, freeki?

During my presentation at last week's 2007 CIO & Digital Library Forum, I made the point that wiki use in education, unlike blogs, is not entirely ready for prime time. Educators who use it are pioneers (or early-adopters, in marketing-speak). That's Read More...
Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 9:57 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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Blogs and Wikis in Teaching and Learning Presentation

Presentation at the 2007 CIO & Digital Library Forum , National University of Singapore. Blogger | Free blogs Wordpress | Free blogs EduBlogs | Free blogs for educators & students Flickr | Photo hosting YouTube | Video hosting TeacherTube | Video Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2007 4:30 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 1 Comments

WikiMindMap

WikiMindMap makes use of Wikipedia to generate a mind map of the search term. I've used Changi as an example in the screenshot above. Students shouldn't be using Wikipedia as a primary source. Nevertheless, that doesn't detract from WikiMindMap's nice Read More...
Posted Friday, July 13, 2007 2:07 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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Photos and images available for non-commercial use

Finding photos and images for use for educational purposes is a daunting task given the current copyright regime. The Creative Commons offers some hope. Recently, the Wellcome Trust announced that it has released its collection of photos for non-commercial Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:53 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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Turnitin Bibliography, Academic Culture, Educational Podcasting, Free Geography Tools

Turnitin Bibliography by Charles P. Nelson via Stephen Downes Charles has written and collated a rich treasure trove of Turnitin (an online plagiarism detection service) resources. While it is touted as a solution to a problem, not all educators approve Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:14 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 1 Comments

BlogWatch: s/pores - New Directions in Singapore Studies

s/pores is a new e-journal run by a group Singaporean academics, mostly based in NUS: This e-journal aims to provide a much-needed multi-disciplinary platform for the dissemination of works investigating different aspects of historical and contemporary Read More...
Posted Friday, July 06, 2007 10:01 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

Snippets

Blog2Learn Wiki by Anne Davis I'm glad that it's Blog2Learn instead of Blog2Teach. We're all learners! Anne's blog is a wide-ranging collection of links to edublogging resources and projects (K-12 through to tertiary level). Click on the SideBar link Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 05, 2007 3:51 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 2 Comments

June Statistics

Here are the Module Blogs metrics for June 2007. We're in the middle of the *ahem* summer break, so activity has been relatively low. Please ignore the comments statistics for Using Module Blogs . As I have mentioned previously, the statistics reporting Read More...
Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 9:33 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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