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"This article shows that technical writing is influenced by culture. English IT technical manuals written by English native-speakers were compared to manuals written by French technical writers to reveal typical errors in the use of punctuation, relative clauses, logical and time connectors. Further considerations of French culture and education will let us know the origins of those errors, and therefore, how to avoid them. "

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"This ECAR research bulletin discusses the adjustments that the Indiana University information technology organization made, and continues to make, in order to support membership in Sakai."

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"With the purchase of Angel by Blackboard, the LMS market is changing rapidly. You need to be aware of what's happening and how it affects your current and future plans"

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"Foursquare on your phone gives you & your friends new ways of exploring your city. Earn points & unlock badges for discovering new things. "

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"It's a tough time to be a 'social media guru'. Despite the rise of social media in general, there's a lot of skepticism when it comes to high-paid consultants who claim to have mastered it. From where I sit, that skepticism only seems to grow by the day."

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"Attached is a synthesis of these various sources, arranged around flows of assignment activities and the users centrally engaged with them."

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"Winn's talk tied the artwork exhibited in Second Life to the concept of an artwork's “aura,” as first discussed by Walter Benjamin in the 1930s. “As mechanical reproduction of art became more prevalent, Benjamin noted that something unique is lost if you only know an artwork through its reproduction. "

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"Ensuring that your classroom lessons run smoothly, establishing rules, motivating students to participate, maintaining discipline, and creating an environment in which students can succeed are all factors that contribute to effective classroom management. Turn to Faculty Focus for tips and techniques."

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"Attendance is much more contingent on whether the professor is an engaging lecturer, said Jennifer Stringer, director of educational technology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, at one of the sessions. “Well-attended lectures were well-watched; poorly attended lectures were not watched,” Stringer said, pointing to research she had conducted at Stanford. "If you’re bad, you’re bad. If you’re bad online, you’re bad in lectures, students don’t come.”"

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"Electronic portfolios can follow a student beyond graduation into careers and other life pursuits-- but not if the university can't guarantee access, or if the data won't transfer from one system to another. A look at how ePortfolios can be true repositories of lifelong learning."

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A Community and Social Network for Your Conference. Your attendees come to network, but it's hard. Pathable's easy-to-use, on-line community and social network helps attendees (and sponsors) meet and communicate with each other.

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"Listen up open source developers, if you want your project to succeed you’re going to have to do more than write great code; you’re going to have to document it, teach new users how it works and provide real-world examples of what you can do with it."

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"Up till now, I've always felt publicly available information about who is using Sakai has been inaccurate, erring on the side of undercounting, while Moodle's published usage statistics have always seemed unbelievably high and in need of a lot of interpretation. "

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""When teachers are everywhere, what is the role of the university?" Noah asked faculty members at Thursday's social media discussion."

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"... the introduction of online experiences for students should be consciously engineered to best capitalize on their readiness for independent learning, and that the progression into the online learning environment be intentionally built into the undergraduate curriculum rather than simply offering students an open menu of face-to-face, hybrid, or fully online courses."

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"Pedagogically, CSU Interact supports a social constructivist approach to e-learning, which suggests that learning is a social process and that students construct meaning from their own experiences."

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"To survive, LMS vendors will need to transform their offerings on the social network model of Facebook. ELGG is an excellent alternative to an LMS, but most organizations are not yet willing to accept a network-centric tool as an alternative to Moodle."

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"Proprietary course management systems are heading for a brick wall. The combination of economic pressures combined with saturated markets and the maturing stage of the life cycle of these once innovative platforms means that 2009 may well be the year of change or a year of serious planning for change. "

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