Week 8: Videos in Plain English, Part 2

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Podcasting in Plain English




                        Social Bookmarking  in Plain English


Wikipedia  in Plain English

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  1. Irina VAugust 13, 2011 at 9:34 AM

    Hi,Javier!
    I share your interest and comments to Plain English vids, you can even arragne a channel here for such vids! Have a look at Googledocs and Googlesites variations and webinars on Utube.
    Did you attend presentation with Stream TV yesterday? It was really great!
    Ijoined ANVILL and'm planning to try it for my coming course. What about you? If you are there too, let's be in touch( my teacher blog is inaviri)

    Good luck with final report,
    Have a good weekend
    Irina

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