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Social Network for Asking Questions and Contributing Answers

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Angel Brady

Quora is a place where you can ask ques­tions and oth­ers con­tribute answers to your ques­tions. You may ask, how is this dif­fer­ent from a site like yahoo! Answers? You con­nect to Quora via your Twit­ter account for Face­book account. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Social Network for Asking Questions and Contributing Answers

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Angel Brady

Quora is a place where you can ask ques­tions and oth­ers con­tribute answers to your ques­tions. You may ask, how is this dif­fer­ent from a site like yahoo! Answers? You con­nect to Quora via your Twit­ter account for Face­book account. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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A Cartographic Tour de France

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Ben Johnston

Inter­est­ing maps of France. http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/446-a-cartographic-tour-de-france/

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Facebook and Twitter Being Added to Class Participation

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Angel Brady

Pur­due Uni­ver­sity is explor­ing a home grown pro­gram called Hot­seat that inte­grates Face­book, Twit­ter, and text mes­sag­ing (via a mobile device) so stu­dents can “back chan­nel” dur­ing a class. Back chan­nel­ing has become pop­u­lar recently at con­fer­ences and pre­sen­ta­tions. Peo­ple use … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Hello-Hello: Online Language Learning Community

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Angel Brady

Hello-Hello is another online lan­guage com­mu­nity. It’s sim­i­lar to sites like Live­mocha, but there is a dif­fer­ence with this site, the ACTFL (The Amer­i­can Coun­cil on the Teach­ing of For­eign Lan­guages) col­lab­o­rated with Hello-Hello to help cre­ate the site. The … Con­tinue read­ing →

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