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Virtual world, real emotions: Relationships in Second Life - CNN.com
Second Life weddings happen often enough "in-world," as it's called in Second Life, that iReporter Hibiscus Hastings even visited a Second Life bridal show. There were about 40 vendors and over 800 attendees, according to its organizer. It even included a fashion show and panel discussion of "wedding do's and don'ts.
Media Bombardment Is Linked to Ill Effects During Childhood - washingtonpost.com
In a detailed look at nearly 30 years of research on how television, music, movies and other media affect the lives of children and adolescents, a new study released today found an array of negative health effects linked to greater use.
OCW Production in the OCWC, 2003 to Present (w/ Chart) at OCW Blog
The open courseware project is reporting nearly 8000 courses:\n\nThe second thing of interest is the larger significance. There's a way in which this is graphing the height of an iceberg from sea level. That peak there represents nearly 8,000 courses - but associated with those courses are thousands of professors who have now participated in an open education project, ten of thousands of professors that have been exposed to the concept of sharing these materials, and hundreds of thousands of students in these classes who have learned through the example of their institution that knowledge is a thing to be shared, not hoarded. Add to that the millions of people outside these institutions who have hit these courses from all over the world, and who have even come to expect such materials will be available, and we are talking a massive tectonic-scale shift in the expectations we are creating about knowledge.
Koofers - Past Tests/Exams, Study Guides, Teacher Ratings/Grades, Notes, & Online Help For College
When I was an undergraduate back in the dark ages one the the major benefits of joining a fraternity was the existence of multiple file cabinets full of previous exams, papers and study guides organized by course. The new term for those resources is (apparently) Koofers, and there's now a Web 2.0 version that makes these resources available on a much more egalitarian basis.
Picturing America Resource Page
This is the compilation page for the picturing America page.
Welcome to TechnologyInTheArts.org
Good compilation site with links to a variety of sources. At a quick glance, seems to have a broad range of materials on arts administration--fundraising, content management, donor relations, etc. Hosted at Carnegie Mellon, but not as much academic content as I had hoped for.
Report of the 21st Centruy Literacy Summit
This is the report of a summit held in the fall of 2004 gathering under the austpices of the New Media Consortium.
Cellphones, Handy Tools for Emergency Alerts, Could Be Used for Cheating During Tests - Chronicle.com
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A new service that particularly worries some professors and administrators is called ChaCha, which allows users to text any question to a network of people and get an answer within minutes.
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Gerard P. O'Sullivan, vice president for academic affairs at Neumann College, in Aston, Pa., is so worried about ChaCha that he is calling on administrators to consider a policy restricting cellphone use during class.
He says a campuswide policy would send a message to students that phone use is not acceptable, and keep instructors from having to seem like the "bad guy" for making students keep their cellphones in their backpacks. "It's better to have a unified policy because it relieves the professor of the onus of enforcement," Mr. O'Sullivan says.
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