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emccormack has bookmarked: How to Improve Writing With Web 2.0 Tools | eHow.com
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- August 19th, 2008
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emccormack has bookmarked: Land of the Open and Free? We’ll See… | School Communications 2.0
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Land of the Open and Free? We’ll See…
I have been a fan of the openness of Web 2.0 — we’re listening to music, watching movies and TV shows, replaying Michael Phelps Olympics videos over and over again. All for free and open to anyone willing to put in the time and energy to
- August 18th, 2008
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emccormack has bookmarked: How To Use "Lay" and "Lie" | eHow.com
- August 15th, 2008
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emccormack has bookmarked: I’m Signed Up: Blog Action Day 08 - Poverty
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A Little Link Love Never Hurts
Thanks to Sherilynne Starkie of Strive Public Relations for listing School Communications 2.0 on her July Link Love list. Just when you begin to think that no one reads your blog, someone like Sherilynne comes along and makes your day by listing your
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emccormack has posted a new entry on: Who? York New York
The Word from Barney's Warehouse Sale
So the infamous Barney's Warehouse Sale kicked off yesterday, August 14th, with it's usual vivacity and carnality. I got a chance to check it out, and it was a pretty god scene. I started off in the men's section (as I am a man), later I went up to t
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I’m Signed Up: Blog Action Day 08 - Poverty
Image via Wikipedia My 18-year-old son is always wearing one of those colorful rubber bracelets signifying his concern for global problems — hunger, war, cancer. Our young people are always setting examples for us, aren’t they? Now it
- August 14th, 2008
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- August 13th, 2008
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emccormack has posted a new entry on: School Communications 2.0
Global Voices — One More Reason to Love the Web
Global Voices proves Thomas Friedman’s premise that the world, indeed, is flat. If you’d like to feel like you’re in Beijing, or Georgia, or New York, read Global Voices, which bills itself as “a non-profit global citizens’
- August 12th, 2008
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emccormack has posted a new entry on: School Communications 2.0
Hype Yourself with Hyplets
Image via Wikipedia I stumbled across Hyplet, a neat-cool-fun website that instantly lets you create your own “signature” for emails or mini-postcards and business cards that you can copy and paste onto just about anything — emails
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Research Via Web 2.0
Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Writers and educators alike often need help with research, and Web 2.0 companies offer a slew of new tools designed to make research easier. Keep in mind, though, that like any Web 2.0 app, these sites get their
- August 9th, 2008
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emccormack has bookmarked: Hyperlocal Blogging
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Hyperlocal Blogging
Image via Wikipedia I realize I’m a bit off-topic here, making my return from vacation, but Sunday’s New York Times Westchester section (where I live) has an interesting piece about hyperlocal blogging, with mentions of New Jersey, Connec
- July 30th, 2008
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emccormack has bookmarked: Definr — Bookmark It!
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emccormack has posted a new entry on: School Communications 2.0
Definr — Bookmark It!
I love little Web 2.0 tools that make my writing life easier, and discovered Definr recently. This is definitely one to bookmark if you do a lot of writing and occasionally have to look up that stray word for which you need a definition. I’d he
- July 28th, 2008
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emccormack has bookmarked: When Math is Greek…
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emccormack has posted a new entry on: School Communications 2.0
When Math is Greek…
When my son was an eighth-grader in a NY suburban school district, we almost impoded as a family. He just didn’t get the infamous Math A or Math B, was in serious danger of failing math (or worse, of giving up entirely), and our home was litter
- July 27th, 2008
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emccormack has posted a new entry on: School Communications 2.0
Reading, Online and With Interest
Image via Wikipedia Be sure to check out The New York Times series, The Future of Reading: Digital vs. Print, which kicked off today with an examination of reading in the digital age: As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined
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emccormack has bookmarked: Crap is a Just Crappy Word
- July 26th, 2008
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Crap is a Just Crappy Word
Since posting an item a few days ago about eSchool News’ “Tech Savvy Superintendents Award,” specifically mentioning award recipient Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Jerry Weast, I’ve received some interesting
- July 25th, 2008
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emccormack has bookmarked: The Untested Task of eSchool Teaching
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The Untested Task of eSchool Teaching
Image via Wikipedia A good read — Today’s Washington Post article titled “The Odd World of E-School Teachers,”. Among its observations: “Educators who supplement or replace their day jobs with online teaching for local p
- July 24th, 2008
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emccormack has posted a new entry on: School Communications 2.0
Supes Who Communicate
Wandered over to eSchool News today, and noticed that they handed out their annual Tech Savvy Superintendents Awards way back in February — super-old news, I know. But I searched around to determine why these superintendents were so tech-savvy,
- July 21st, 2008
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emccormack has posted a new entry on: School Communications 2.0
Tom Gould Says, “Tame the Beast”
More from NSPRA, where I attended a workshop by Tom Gould, Public Information Officer for the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Schools on Long Island. Tom’s workshop about self-publishing online showed school PR professionals and school leaders how they
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Title of Show Breaks Boundaries and Ushers in a New Era of The Broadway Musical
I got the chance to see the new Broadway musical Title of Show last night. I had been hearing things about the show since it's first inception at NYMF a few years ago. It was not what I thought it would be, at all. The musical, now playing at the Ly
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emccormack has posted a new entry on: Who? York New York
Couture Week Arouses and Challenges Pret-a-Porter
So Couture Week in Paris has been over for a few weeks now, designers have moved onto their ready-to-wear collections, but I keep going back to the fine line between Pret-a-Porter (or ready-to-wear) and Haute Couture. The nature of Pret-a-Porter is o
- July 20th, 2008
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emccormack has stumbled: One More Thing I Love — Grammar Girl | School Communications 2.0
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One More Thing I Love — Grammar Girl
If you’re not sure of the difference between “than” and “then,” if you’re always stumped by “its” and “it’s,” you might want to bookmark Grammar Girl – one of my favorite places to visit on the Web. Mignon Fogarty keeps t
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