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09 Apr 09

Earlier today, because of their new monetization scheme, I said goodbye to YouTube. Therefore, I thought it would appropriate to share some alternatives to YouTube that teachers and students might want to explore. In some cases, I've reviewed some of these services in the past and have linked to those reviews as well as to the website itself.

1,2,3. This list cannot be started and would be totally incomplete if I did not start by mentioning Teacher Tube, Teachers.tv, and iTunes U. My blog posts on the three services are here, here, and here respectively.
6,7. The History Channel and the Discovery Channel both offer a lot of content similar to and, in some cases, identical to that which is found on their respective television networks.

8,9 Vimeo and Blip.tv are two user generated content video sites that have gained some traction over the last year. My reviews of these services are available here and here respectively.

Welcome to Hunkin's
Experiments. Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound,
clothes, and a whole lot more!! Hundreds of cartoon experiments from
cartoonist, broadcaster and engineer Tim Hunkin. Now also available as a book
Welcome to Hunkin's
Experiments. Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound,
clothes, and a whole lot more!! Hundreds of cartoon experiments from
cartoonist, broadcaster and engineer Tim Hunkin. Now also available as a book
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- Welcome to Hunkin's
  Experiments. Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound,
  clothes, and a whole lot more!! Hundreds of cartoon experiments from
  cartoonist, broadcaster and engineer Tim Hunkin. Now also available as a book

12 Feb 09

a Enso has announced that Google is buying the buildings and most of the Summa Mill site, where production of paper was ceased last month in January 2008, for approximately 40 million

04 Nov 08

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09 May 08

The immersion of information in the larger ecology of information sources and systems coupled with the dissolvability of tasks and processes ensuing from the digitization of reality challenge the administrative legacy of bounded and hierarchically-constituted organisations, thus originating more distributed interaction patterns that are normally associated with the network metaphor.
But even more poignantly, Prof. Kallinikos states, networks promote a new architecture of control: compared to hierarchical organisations, networks appear as disembedded and distributed patterns of interaction; contrasted to the logic of the market, networks appear as centralised arrangements where users (not buyers) pay a rent (not buy) for accessing resources or knowledge commanded by specific corporations.

06 Apr 08

Attraction of 1:1 initiative using low cost laptop alternatives like Asus eepc. Cost: $350 per unit, and don't have licensing issues.

Does note that more creative uses like arts suffer because of lack of capability and software. - wiredclassroom on 2008-04-06

Kipling says the mini laptops "offer a comprehensive solution that other mobile devices cannot compete with. We love [its] size and are impressed with the possibilities it offers. The potential for assessment for learning is great, and already we have teachers gaining instant access to learners' responses through blogging and other miniBook capabilities".