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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 »
Sample Proposals
Here are several proposals I have successfully submitted for conferences. They may be helpful examples. Desire, Dissent and Differentiation: Sustaining Growth in Virtual Networks — New Network Theory 2008 Many if not all virtual communities have been spawned out of the founders’ desire to find others who share their views, pleasures, distastes, and obsessions. The early net... »
Interesting and Useful Websites
There are any number of websites that might enrich our understanding of how technology, new/digital media, and the internet are affecting our lives. Here are a few of them: Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, from Frontline. According to them, Digital Nation is a new, open source PBS project that explores what it means to... »
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... »
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... »
Timeline of Classical, Medeival, and Renaissance Rhetoric
Silva Rhetoricae covers Western Rhetoric and offers many useful resources, including a list of rhetorical devices and their definition, links to rhetorical texts online, information about the history and practice of rhetoric, and a timeline showing the publication of important rhetorical texts. »