Joan Vinall-Cox

I’m attending the PBWorks Camp for teachers, and this is my homework for my second week, a screencast made using Jing on how Styles in MS Word can help in writing long pieces such as academic papers or business reports:
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I re-did this a number of times, dealing with -

fitting what I wanted to say [...]

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Social Bookmarking – Diigo

http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/social-bookmarking-diigo/

Social bookmarking is one of the most useful aspects of the web. You can use it to create your own online library, organized to your own interests by using tags. Although I’ve been using some form of social bookmarking for years, every so often I want to review what I can do with the social [...]

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Twitter Means Business

http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/twitter-means-business/

I’m ambivalent about my title because I use Twitter mainly for learning, communication, and entertainment. I recognize, however, that business is becoming increasingly a part of Twitter. I recently posted a picture on TwitPic …
and commented that it reminded me of a Liberty print.
(I have fond memories of a dress made from material I got [...]

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Querulous Question #1

http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/querulous-question-1/

All the brouhaha about financial game playing and our perilous financial system has brought a question to my mind: why do we talk about wages with percentages?
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If someone, A, making $20,000. gets a 5% raise, that’s $1000.00 dollars and they now make
$21,000.

If someone, B, making $200,000. gets the same percentage, 5%, they [...]

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MagNet Presentation on Researching Using the Web

http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/magnet-presentation-on-resea

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MagNet ‘09

http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/magnet-09/

I GO-trained into Toronto today to attend some sessions at the MagNet ‘09 Conference. I was really impressed with the excellent level of organization and with the high quality of the two sessions I attended, a session with a panel of literary agents answering questions and a session with Harry van Bommel on self-publishing. Both [...]

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More from WordCamp Toronto 2009

http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/more-from-wordcamp-toronto-2

Nick La on Customizing WordPress

Lots of valuable how-tos!

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WordCamp Toronto 2009

http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/wordcamp-toronto-2009/

Live Tweeting vs Live Blogging
At the Toronto WordCamp 2008, I live-blogged, and that was fun:

http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/live-blogging-at-wordcamp-to
http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/live-blogging-wordcam-day2/

At WordCamp Toronto, 2009, I Tweeted using the hashtag #wct09, and that was fun, and more social for a couple of reasons.

I was less focussed on getting every piece of wisdom and could relate more f2f with the people around me; [...]