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**// Man cannot teach another how to learn if unable to learn himself. //**
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The purpose of this site to connect people who share common interests in improving the teaching and learning of English to students of other languages. In order to promote sustainable discourse, interaction that is viable, interactive, diverse, and autonomous (VIDA) is encouraged. Those who create an account to this site are automatically set to contributor status which permits one to add posts and the contributing to the various wikis that are available. Periodic Google+ hangouts will also be scheduled in order to share understandings and experiences in real time. Why not register today!

All comments and suggestions related to improving this site are greatly appreciated. Or better yet, simply become a contributing author and make contributions as you see fit. If you want to know more, contact me via Google+ ([|gplus.to/bnleez]) or Skype (benjamin.stewart1). Note: Collaborative Understandings reserves the right to remove users whose primary purpose is to advertise.

License and disclaimer
Under a [|Creative Commons] license, you may use, modify, copy, and distribute the content found on this website without needing to ask permission, as long as you credit the source in writing as **EduQuiki** //and//on the web by adding a link back to the web site, http://eduquiki.wikispaces.com/

All work posted to this site follow these freedoms as defined by [|Free Cultural Works]:
 * the **freedom to use** the work and enjoy the benefits of using it
 * the **freedom to study** the work and to apply knowledge acquired from it
 * the **freedom to make and redistribute copies**, in whole or in part, of the information or expression
 * the **freedom to make changes and improvements**, and to distribute derivative works.

[|And this is the rationale] for choosing to avoid the noncommercial attribute to Creative Commons.

Everything on this blog is the personal opinion of the individual bloggers and does not reflect the opinions of anyone else, including employers, in any way. If you'd like to know more about open authorship, attend this **[|Open content licensing for educators],** which is a **free online**workshop designed for educators and students who want to learn more about open education resources, copyright, and creative commons licenses! Also, refer to Learning Analytics: Guidinelines for ethical use.

Ethics
= = //Digital citizenship// is a term that describes how a [|person] should act while using [|digital technology] online and has also been defined as "the ability to participate in society online". [|[14]][|[15]] The term is often mentioned in relation to [|Internet safety] and [|netiquette].

The term has been used as early as 1998 and has gone through several changes in description as newer technological advances have changed the method and frequency of how people interact with one another online. [|[19]][|[20]] Classes on digital citizenship have been taught in some public education systems and some argue that the term can be "measured in terms of economic and political activities online".

Common rules for e-mail [|[4]] and Usenet such as avoiding [|flamewars] and [|spam] are constant across most mediums and communities. Another rule is to avoid typing in [|all caps] or grossly enlarging script for emphasis, which is considered to be the equivalent of shouting or yelling. Other commonly shared points, such as remembering that one's posts are (or can easily be made) public, are generally intuitively understood by publishers of Web pages and posters to Usenet, although this rule is somewhat flexible depending on the environment. On more private protocols, however, such as e-mail and SMS, some users take the privacy of their posts for granted. One-on-one communications, such as private messages on chat forums and direct SMSs, may be considered more private than other such protocols, but infamous breaches surround even these relatively private media. For example, [|Paris Hilton] 's [|Sidekick][|PDA] was [|cracked] in 2005, resulting in the publication of her private photos, SMS history, address book, etc. Wikipedia

About its founder
Benjamin L. Stewart (Mendeley profile) holds a master’s degree in education, curriculum and instruction: technology from Grand Canyon University and is pursuing a doctoral degree in educational leadership. He is a full-time EFL teacher educator/researcher at the University of Aguascalientes with an interest in researching personal learning networks and language teaching and learning. For more information, you may view his member profile found here:

Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Blog & Articles | Opinion | Syllabi | eBooks | Reports

Topics
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Webtools
EnglishTips.org | Google shared spaces | MOOC.me | MOOC.ca | TESL-EJ | Teacher Training Videos | The 30 Goals Challenge: Join the movement | Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 | Visuwords |

Books & reports:
Books every educator should read.

Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies (2012) |

Conference recordings
Social Learning Summit (2012)

Twitter chats (Check local times.)
#EAPChat: First and third Mondays of each month at 1:00 PM EST #Edchat: Tuesdays at 12:00 PM EST #ELTChat: Wednesdays at 12:00 BST (1st topic) and 21:00 BST (2nd choice) (Check your local time.): Teachers from all over the world log into their Twitter account and for one hour hold an online discussion on a topic they have selected.