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October 2008

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ATTW Conference Presentation Proposal

Here is the proposal I am submitting for the 2009 ATTW Conference: Simulating Synchronicity in the Online Classroom Through Embedded Audio-Visual Discussions Many technical communication instructors employ video tools within the online classroom to present information to students, often requiring ...

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The Social/Rhetorical/Epistemic Situation of Audio-Visual Discussion

This post is in response to This comment, which essentially inquires as to the way in which elements of primary AND which elements of secondary orality play into: Orally-based web 2.0 technologies; Interpersonal relationships and the associated oral communication patterns; People in front of th...

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Semi-Synchronous Communication: Adding Notes in Viddler.

Last week, I was discussing with someone the ability one has to add textual comments (annotations) to the timeline of online videos, such as in YouTube and Viddler. In this way, one is commenting textually at certain points in the timeline of the video. This is rather exciting, since it breaks a lim...

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