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if:book: commentpress 3.1
New and very sweet looking version of CommentPress has been released... I can envision many potential uses for it! Might be a good reason for running wpmu as well...
Local Bookstores, Social Hubs, and Mutualization « Clay Shirky
Shirky on the future of bookstores...
The Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard Of
A nice presentation by @shareski on why Twitter isn't (always) the stupidest thing ever...
FACT CHECK: Palin's book goes rogue on some facts - washingtonpost.com
Just the start of the avalanche of lies and errors, not to mention half-truths.
Twiangulate
Find interesting Twitter people based on other interesting people. Looks promising-- if I could ever get past the "Twitter seems a little slow today" error message
70 Of The Best Photoshop Actions For Enhancing Photos | Creative Nerds
A quick guide to some more (and less) useful Photoshop actions for quickly enhancing/transmogrifying photos
The Ed Techie: Remote conference participation - results
This is a subject that deserves some thought. For the most part, online conferences (and online strands of face-to-face) seem to be perceived as (and often subtly created as) alternative to the "real thing" that are inferior but better-than-nothing. Reminds me of the way distance education and online learning (mostly) used to be seen the same way in comparison to their face-to-face counterparts...
Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy videos
Some great videos here... thanks @jstein
Twitter Literacy (City Brights: Howard Rheingold)
"Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. So is the Internet. The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it - on knowing how to look at it."
'Self-learners' creating university of online - Times Online
"By chance he discovered a website called Open Learn, an offshoot of the Open University (OU), which is in the vanguard of a new era of education. Short-circuiting tuition fees and over-priced student flats, Open Learn offers expert material, accessible via the internet, free to anyone, anywhere. "
The Smart Set: The Return of the Epigram
Though Twitter may be guilty for promoting (or at least encouraging) a short attention span, forced brevity is not entirely a bad thing. Humans have been perfecting the art of keeping it short since the beginning of literature. I, for one, am starting to see Twitter as a modern day epigram generator.
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Add Sticky NoteThis brings us back to Twitter. Twitter is a natural vehicle for that same, Martialian, epigrammatic mindset. Fragments of experience, half-baked witticisms, clever, if momentary insights, this is the stuff of an interesting tweet. You've got one twist and you better make the best of it.
- nice - on 2009-10-07
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Martial would have liked them all. He would also have appreciated the mandatory length-limit on Twitter. It forces everyone to think in two steps instead of three. The change of pace keeps you moving, dancing even, at least bouncing around a little bit. It favors immediacy. Sure, the longer story is important, too. But in the long run we're all dead. Dorothy Parker, a modern heir to Martial if ever there was one, sums it up nicely:
Wordie joins Wordnik
Wordie is a great site-- flickr for words, inhabited by word lovers. They are joining forces with Wordnik... a development that can't help but be interesting...
WPMU plugins you ought to have at Bionic Teaching
Great list of WPmu plugins in actual use...
Social Media Revolution (YouTube)
"Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Welcome to the World of Socialnomics "
Cloudworks - The Open Scholar
Many people thinking along the same lines as I lately... good stuff from Terry Anderson, Martin Weller, etc
Informal Education - Exploring reflection and learning
"Here we look more closely at the process of working with others (or ourselves) to deepen learning. In particular, we explore: emancipating and enlarging experience, the nature of reflection, and learning from experience"
Pursuing the elusive metaphor of community in virtual learning environments
"Social networking software sites are often mistakenly called learning communities, betraying a significant lack of agreement or concern for what actually constitutes a community. However, social networking sites are being used by teachers to engage students in dynamic ways, and by learners as vehicles for constructing their own, very personal learning environments and communities. This paper draws on lessons we have learned about building personal learning environments and virtual communities from our research and experience in formal and non-formal learning environments. It addresses the key questions of how can we construct, maintain and usher out communities, who joins communities, and what characteristics of communities seem to be shared across learning environments. The paper also questions whether the label “community” is actually a failed metaphor for something that seems to be much too dynamic and elusive to capture with a single construct. "
Smokescreen privacy game
Smokescreen privacy game uses fun missions to show kids how data on social services can be used against them
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