Jumpchart - Simple Website Planning and Wireframing. If you don’t have a PLN, you don’t know what you’re missing!! « NovaNews. Recently I was asked to write an article for an upcoming edition of Connections, a quarterly newsletter produced by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS), a business unit of Education Services Australia.
Aiming to provide informative and useful material relevant to school libraries which helps keep library professionals up to date, Connections is distributed to all schools in Australia in both hard copy and digital formats. I was asked to write specifically about Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) both from a general and personal perspective. I found the process of putting my thoughts together both challenging and inspiring. Not all that long ago, I had never heard of PLNs. Today, I feel part of an amazing community and am unable to comprehend how I could be where I am today without the support and guidance of those in my PLN.
My article in Connections has been published in mid February 2012 and can be read in hard copy and online in Issue #80. “Wow – you’re so tall!” 23 Things for Professional Development: Schedule for CPD23 2012. Here are the Things that we will be exploring during the 23 Things for Professional Development course this summer.
There is real a mixture of stuff: some web 2.0 and/or social media gadgets and gizmos, and some ways of developing your career by more 'traditional', less technology-focussed, means. Throughout the programme will be emphasising how these Things can help your professional development, although you're likely to find lots of tools useful in other ways, too! We are taking the Things at a slightly slower pace this time around, although the original posts from last year will remain in place if you prefer to go at your own pace. The Plan Week 1 (7th May) - BloggingThing 1: Create your own blog, write about what you hope to get out of the programme. Week 15 (13th August) - Getting involved continuedThing 16: Advocacy, speaking up for the profession and getting publishedWeek 16 (20th August) - Presenting informationThing 17: Prezi / data visualisation / slideshare.
Scan. Pandoc Converts All Your (Text) Documents. For the past few months we ProfHackers have been running an occasional series about using the command line.
I got us started with a couple posts explaining why you might want to use the command line and how to get started using it. Konrad followed with a posts about the uniq command and the sort command for working with text and data files. Amy added a post about how the command line let her hack the NOOK Color, and I wrote about using pdftk to manipulate PDFs. Taking up the command line is easier if you have a specific problem you’re trying to solve.
For me, the problem was that I wanted to do all of my writing in a plain text format, like Markdown or LaTeX. The best way I’ve found to move between these formats is Pandoc. Here’s an example of how this works. Markdown to HTML (HTML output on GitHub): pandoc pandoc-example.markdown -o pandoc-example.html Markdown to LaTeX (LaTeX output on GitHub): pandoc pandoc-example.markdown -o pandoc-example.tex Markdown to DOCX: Have you tried Pandoc? DotEPUB — download any webpage as an e-book. Social compare- create your own comparison charts.