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Can The French Write English?: A Case Study of Technical Writing in France
"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. "
Dynamics of Supporting Sakai Through Local and Global Collaboration
"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."
David Wiley: Open Teaching Multiplies the Benefit but Not the Effort
The added richness of broader, international perspectives that these outside, informal students brought to the course was priceless for the official students in my class.
Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less
A recent tweet by one would-be Cisco employee proves that when it comes to placing a permanent black mark on your resume via the Internet, Twitter is now the tool of choice. To illustrate, here’s the tweet the now Web-infamous "theconnor" shared with the world:
Social Software Building Blocks - honeycomb diagram
While doing research for a recent workshop, I came across a useful list of seven social software elements. These seven building blocks--identity, presence, relationships, conversations, groups, reputation and sharing--provide a good functional definition for social software. They're also a solid foundation for thinking about how social software works.
Wikis, “Opt-in Culture” Contribute to a Healthy Organization
In opt-in cultures, employees are more engaged and more productive leading the overall organization to greater success. One could debate whether a successful wiki breeds an opt-in culture or an opt-in culture breeds a successful wiki. But one thing is certain…you can’t have one without the other.
On Being Alone
As one of the people in the video says, “if you aren’t connected people think you are negligent” and that bothers me, but it is a reality.
Shorpy Photo Archive | History in HD
Shorpy.com | History in HD is a vintage photography blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.
Quote O’ the Day from the 2009 Horizon Report
Information technologies are having a significant impact on how people work, play, gain information, and collaborate. Increasingly, those who use technology in ways that expand their global connections are more likely to advance, while those who do not will find themselves on the sidelines. With the growing availability of tools to connect learners and scholars all over the world — online collaborative workspaces, social networking tools, mobiles, voice-over-IP, and more — teaching and scholarship are transcending traditional borders more and more all the time. (Emphasis mine.)
Teaching with Twitter
The World Simulation was an amazing success this year, thanks in part to the use of Twitter and Jott, which allowed students to send live updates of major events through their mobile phones.
Generation Y job-seekers hit hard
Older workers seem to have a leg up on the youngsters. It’s a harsh reality that happens in almost any downturn, economists and labor experts say, but this one has been particularly hard on younger workers because many were blindsided.
Everyone else is on Facebook. Why aren't you?
Instead I'd like to address those readers who aren't on Facebook, especially those of you who've consciously decided to stay away.
Brave New World: More Digital, Less Physical
I constantly meet really smart non-technical people -- doctors, lawyers, teachers -- who have no clue how computers work. They treat them as magic black boxes that randomly break and never make sense. Why? Because software is a fundamentally different kind of system. It does not behave like the other things around us that we are used to.
Becoming Screen Literate
A new distribution-and-display technology is nudging the book aside and catapulting images, and especially moving images, to the center of the culture. We are becoming people of the screen.
Avortement : Coup d'éclat du cardinal Turcotte
Le cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte remet son insigne de l'Ordre du Canada. Il joint ainsi sa voix aux protestations contre le fait que la gouverneure générale, Michaëlle Jean, va accorder le même honneur au Dr Henry Morgentaler, une figure de proue de l'avortement au Canada. La gouverneure avait fait part de sa décision au mois de juillet. La remise de l'insigne doit avoir lieu à l'automne ou à l'hiver, mais aucune date n'a été fixée pour l'instant.
Political Remixers and Fair Use Best Practices
Political remixers badly need the Code of Best Practices, because they want their work to circulate widely as a form of criticism with some impact in the world.
Sarcasm: With your vast knowledge of neurology, you'll get this story at first reading
What you may not have realized is that perceiving sarcasm, the smirking put-down that buries its barb by stating the opposite, requires a nifty mental trick that lies at the heart of social relations -- figuring out what others are thinking.
Free speech is thorny online
Companies in charge of seemingly public spaces online wipe out content that's controversial but otherwise legal.
Tim O'Reilly Offers Twittering Tips
In fact, Twitter derives a lot of its value from forcing people to keep messages short, said Tim O’Reilly, chief executive officer of Sebastopol-based O’Reilly Media.
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