[xmca] aphasic fingers

From: Andy Blunden <ablunden who-is-at mira.net>
Date: Tue Jun 17 2008 - 20:32:43 PDT

Does anyone know the word for a tendency to mistype words
like writing "teh" instead of "the." It's not really
dyslexia nor aphasia nor alexia. Is there a word for it?

Andy

Mike Cole wrote:
> Thanks lynda, we will check it out.
> Seems like we want BOTH to communicate and share INTERNALLY and get the word
> our EXTERNALLY.
> mike
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Lynda Stone <lstone@csus.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> After receiving this email, Jackie Hotchkiss, my new site coordinator found
>> a
>> way for our sites to become part of a community that is *private* and
>> has the capacity for: a) discussion boards, b) blogs, c) videos,
>> e) pictures, f) communication [comment boards], and the capacity
>> for individual groups (limited to a specific site as well as for multiple
>> groups. This looks like a great tool for collaboration/networrking
>> across sites. Because it is secure (only members have access), we
>> are planning on using this for next year as part of our program.
>>
>> Ning (www.ning.com) is the name of the social network that we're planning
>> on using. It requires a master administrator but is very simple to set
>> up,
>> easy to change security levels, appearance, and over all layout of the
>> page--
>> the different tools (blogs, videos, etc.) are selected so that each site is
>> easily
>> designed based on individual needs.
>>
>> I'm sending this info because YouTube is not secure and does not allow for
>> communication.
>> On the other hand, we could use YouTube, etc. to share those things we
>> think can broaden awareness of our program----
>>
>> Let me know what you think---who knows we may be able to collaborate more
>> easily with this program---and it's free!
>>
>> Hope you all are having a great June!
>> Lynda
>>
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>> On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Mike Cole wrote:
>>
>> Kris and I have been speaking recently about speaking out -- About ways to
>> communicate what we are
>> doing that will get these sets of practices more widely accepted and
>> supported. What follows is a
>> representation of one of the manyt activities we engage with young people
>> at a HUD cite here in
>> San Diego. We had trouble uploading it to the tclearninglounge website, so
>> at the suggestion of
>> Ivan Rosero, she put it on Youtube and Ivan will create the linke from the
>> Learning Center which
>> is the center of these activities.
>>
>> The uploading is easy. And here is what a hard working UCSD undergrad in
>> Communication may
>> learn how to accomplish in a week or so of working with visual
>> documentation of the activities.
>>
>> Seems like a really interesting potential pattern of collaborative
>> mediation for this forum as well?
>> here it is
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiowil1I6UE&feature=email
>>
>> mike
>> PS-- What if every member of XMCA created a similar document. Think how
>> much we would
>> learn about each other?
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>> Lynda Stone, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Child Development
>> California State University
>> 6000 J Street
>> Sacramento, CA 95819-6139
>> Phone: (916) 278-4326 FAX: (916) 278-3348
>>
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