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Embedding Media Files in WordPress.com Posts for Free
While WordPress.com supports audio and video uploads, they aren’t free. If you want to do it for free, try the method described below: Get Audio Into Wordpress.com for Free »
Getting and Giving Feedback, some general guidelines
Helping other students to edit their papers can be a tremendous help to both parties. You will find that your own writing improves as you notice strengths and weaknesses in your peers’ writing. Here are some steps to help you give more effective feedback. When you begin the process, look over the requirements for the... »
Possible Tools
Social Bookmarking Tools These websites allow you to create online bookmarks that you can annotate, tag, share, and sync with your web browser. Further and even more usefully, you can explore the webpages other people have also tagged; for example you can see all the sites tagged with “online” and “pedagogy.” In essence you benefit... »
The Legal Rights of Bloggers
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a useful page outlining the legal rights of bloggers, answering FAQs and linking to detailed info, exemplary court cases, and other resources. This page is worth a look for any blogger, but especially if you are concerned about an employer’s reaction or about fair use questions. In general... »
Writing Guide for Research Papers
Attached is a basic guide for writing up academic papers. These guidelines are deliberately quite general to avoid restricting your thoughts or needs as a writer. If you have further questions, such as whether your argument makes sense, whether your organization is effective, or other concerns specific to your paper, post your text to the... »
K. De Vries’ learning styles
Ethereal Education › Tools — WordPress. So here is a chart of my learning style scores. I should note that the low aural score has more to do with not feeling very musical as opposed to not listening! Style Scores Visual 15 Social 12 Physical 17 Aural 5 Verbal 12 Solitary 8 Logical 9 »
Mid-term Questions and Instructions
Choose two questions. For each, first explain why you chose that question, what makes it a good one. Then answer it. Spend no more than 2 pages single-spaced and three hours per question. Please tag it as mid-term response, and put it in the 5870 category. 1. Drawing on the scholars we have studied so... »
Tips for Interviews and Fieldnotes
Here is a short set of guidelines and tips for fieldnotes, and in more detail for interviewing, adapted from the Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes & Poverty (RECOUP). Fieldnotes and Note-taking »
5001 Proposal Is California still “the land of fruits and nuts?”
The Rhetoric of the Gay Debate in a Liberal State California has long been considered a liberal state on most issues. People from other states often refer to California as “the land of fruits and nuts” and they aren’t talking about our long history of bountiful agricultural production. No, our great state is known as... »
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) instructions
We will be using old-school IRC. –Relish the historical experience! To start with you need an IRC client; if you are using the Firefox or Mozilla browser, I recommend downloading ChatZilla. If not, google “IRC clients and _______ (your browser) to find one. Or try searching IRC in Wikipedia–they have a list of... »