Posts from — May 2007

Memory of the World:
UNESCO’s Memory of the World program aims at preservation and dissemination of valuable archive holdings and library collections worldwide.
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great idea…

Chaos in the Classroom:
It won’t always be called chaos in the classroom. It will soon be known as interactive, hands-on, collaborative, personalized learning with choice. Just not soon enough.
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the question though… is whether it will be called ‘good’… by whom, and for whom. I’d generally think that this is good in general… it fosters collaboration, discovery and creativity, which is the backbone of the economy much more than sitting still in a chair, working on your own project, which seems much more inclined to train people to be office workers at best and assembly line workers minimally.

Program offers teachers summer jobs at IT companies – Jacksonville Business Journal::
A local organization has created a program to place high school and community college teachers in summer internships in a high demand field, with the hopes those teachers will bring first-hand experience back to the classroom.

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this is smart.

Wiki Project Shut Down:
is part of the reason why I was tremendously disappointed to read today that his students have lost contact with a group of students across the country when a parent from the out of state class complained. As I said when I left a comment on Ben’s blog, I was disappointed, but not totally surprised. I knew someone was going to get criticized for hooking their students up with others somewhere for some reason.

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it is truly sad when a parent’s fear… ruins the lives and learning of current and future students.

InternetFrog.com: Network Tools, Internet Speed Test and Website Tools:
Testing Your Connection Speed

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well this is cool…

AlterNet: Myth of the Universal Digital Library:
Sorry, but we can’t digitize everything. Here’s why …

A lot of Web geeks believe that one day everything ever created by humans will be available online. Call it the myth of the universal library. Here’s how the myth goes: Because there is unlimited real estate in cyberspace and because media can be digitized, we can fill cyberspace with all human knowledge and give everyone access to it. Without further ado, I present to you three arguments for eliminating the myth of the universal library.

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It is true, we can’t… do it… but then… that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to do something.

Can culture dictate the way we see? – being-human – 04 May 2007 – Print – New Scientist:
Culture can shape your view of the world, the saying goes. And it might be more than just a saying: a new study suggests that culture may shape the way our brains process visual information.

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yes… nice of them to note this… not that phenomenology and semiology haven’t said this 4000 times before and been right…. just that… now they are still right.

librarian.net » do you ubuntu?:
do you ubuntu?

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weee, cool little install video

Welcome to Idealist.org – Imagine. Connect. Act.:

Description:
Come join our exciting and highly caffeinated team at UNICEF. We need someone to start now who’s a skilled Python developer (would be great if you’ve worked with the development of wiki’s — preferably Moin) – with a focus on getting the tools to work on the OLPC (100-dollar laptop (you will get to play with them)).

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superaleja needs a laptop to do second life:
SuperAleja’s a Force for Good!
April 9th, 2007

Yes, SuperAleja is a “Force for Good”

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I have to say…. this is worthwhile. so go do it.