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Greg McVerry

How to Write a Book Review #edu307

Read Read the book again take notes or don't take notes..your call....I believe writing is easier with notes. Read Summarize the gist of the story. Include the title, author, illustrator and the main point/conflict in one or two sentences. Focus on stories place within the genre...Meaning if it is a mystery story talk about elements common to mystery, Say as

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Didn't win @mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge makes me $0 out of $1.59 million on the year with another 200k pending....crappy performance by yours truly

Thank you for submitting Southern Connecticut State University ’s Shaping our Worlds and Exploring Our We(s): WebVR and Computer science Ethics to the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, and for taking the time to submit ideas for integrating ethics into computer science curricula. Unfortunately, we received many high-quality submissions that exceeded wh

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#edu307Update Hey #edu307 Here are your Build-A-Module Group

Picture Books Meagan Dooley Mary Luz Heidtmann Alyssa Kopjanski Julia Raucci Fables Ashley Connolly Jessica Fressle Jessica LeClerc Emily Vilhotti Myths Caroline Beatty Natalie Delin Megan Garner Megan Ralston Fantasy Marie Chutjian Mia Ney Emma Soltis Biography Karlene Wells Jennifer Pohl Jessica Reynolds Emma Soltis Realistic Fiction Alyssa Bellizzi Heidi

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Hanging with @GOIFoundation at our first Homebrew Website Club Accra

Yesterday Sadik , Zita , and Mohamed and I met for the first homebrew website in Accra, Ghana and also the first on the African continent. For some weird reason I could not accept Skype calls on my mobile so I pulled my car over, we fired up Google Docs and I chatted that way as the other three met. Together we want to help OER spread across Ghana. We began

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Reviewer Comments from @IESResearch and #QuestionTheWeb #literacies

Last August we submitted the following grant applicatio n to @IESResearch to address the critical literacy online....We were not funded. I attach the reviewer comments to help others who live and die by the same rat race as federal research. Some Notes Reviewer One One argument made in the application is that “for effective writing instruction to occur—readi

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Balancing the Journey from Outsider to In When Recentering #OER #OER19

As the Global Open Initiative Foundation begin our efforts to create an #OpenPedagogy network in Ghana have taken off with lightning speed. As an outsider invited into the group to join the advisory board I often fall to my worries that I am pushing my perspective and goals tool much. Doing the exact opposite of de-colonizing OER. I want to listen and advise

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Following @francesbell

I just added Frances Bell to the #OpenPedagogy section of my following page at https://jgregorymcverry.com/following #BeYourownSocialNetwork

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Announcing @IndieWebCamp New Haven Keynote

I am happy to announce that Kimberly Hirsh will join us as the key note for IndieWebCamp New Haven . Kimberly Hirsh kimberlyhirsh@unc.edu Durham NC twitter facebook microblog instagram kimberlyhirsh.com Librariacafan. PhD student @ UNC SILS, mom, old millennial. Remote Keynote In efforts to connect more people we will keep the tradition started at IWC NYC of

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My First Meeting of the Global Open Initiative Foundation Advisory Board @goifoundation #oer19 #digped #openpedagogy

I had such a wonderful meeting getting to know the team. The Goal of the Organization We agreed that the mission of GOIF focuses on the spread of OER resources across low connectivity areas of Ghana in order to make knowledge accessible across the Global South while growing digital literacies skills of participants. Supporting Digital Literacies The team is

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The joys of @scsu unhelp desk....Look at the chat log of the supposedly 24/7/365 available chat..this is ridiculous...I just want to check email

reset password 07:51 AM You are now chatting with Breana M 07:51 AM How may I help you with your Technical Support issue? 07:51 AM Breana I am off campus and need to update my password 07:52 AM In order to better assist you, please provide me with your name, phone number,student id , and email address. 07:52 AM Dr McVerry, 203-982-8182, mcverryj1 07:53 AM ma

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Update on @IndieWebCamp Hack Day Proect-The Guestbook

UPDATE THIS DID WORK...I was uploading the wrong file by FTP...over and over again...and scratching my head Still working on the Guestbook Project .This didn't work <?php $var1 = $_POST['user_name']; $var2 = $_POST['user_text']; $var3 = $_POST['user_instagram']; $var4 = $_POST['user_twitter']; $var5 = $_POST['user_email']; $var6 = $_POST['user_msg']; $fileHa

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Learning what you can't do with PHP

Tried this as guestbook after I was able to save plain text to an html file, it's not the right thing to do...so close...Can display the data but need to display each entry and still can't get pesky var6 to display @InideWebCamp Online <?php $var1 = $_POST['user_name']; $var2 = $_POST['user_text']; $var3 = $_POST['user_instagram']; $var4 = $_POST['user_twitt

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The Text File is updating from the Guestbook

The Guestbook project continues as @IndieWebCamp Online continues Martijnhttps://vanderven.se/martijn/Martijnhttps://vanderven.se/martijn/Gregjgregorymcverry.comjgmac1106jgmac1106ggg@aa.comGregjgregorymcverry.comjgmac1106jgmac1106ggg@aa.comGregjgregorymcverry.comjgmac1106jgmac1106yyy@aa.comGregjgregorymcverry.comjgmac1106jgmac1106yyy@aa.comGregjgregorymcverr

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Update on @IndieWebCamp Hack Day Proect-The Guestbook

Still working on the Guestbook Project .This didn't work <?php $var1 = $_POST['user_name']; $var2 = $_POST['user_text']; $var3 = $_POST['user_instagram']; $var4 = $_POST['user_twitter']; $var5 = $_POST['user_email']; $var6 = $_POST['user_msg']; $fileHandle = fopen("myDataFile", 'w'); fwrite($fileHandle, $var1); fwrite($fileHandle, $var2); fwrite($fileHandle,

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Following @ZuZage

I just added Zuz to the #OpenPedagogy section of my following page at https://jgregorymcverry.com/following #BeYourownSocialNetwork

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How I Build My Common Place Book

Creating a Navigable Rabbit Hole I only caught the tail end of the Common Place Book session at #IndieWeb camp online as it fell right during dinner. Since I didn't get to share with everyone I thought I would lay out a few strategies in a quick post here and overtime"My Common Place Book" will turn into an article on my website . Tha't my goal. The rewindin

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