All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

eScholarship Editions: University of California Press:
University of California Press and the California Digital Library’s eScholarship program. More than 400 of the titles are available to the general public; the rest are for University of California faculty, staff, and students only.

Weblogs as Pedagogy:

Barbara Ganley’s recent post about how the tool is becoming indistinguishable from the course makes it clear just how far down the blog road she has travelled.

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As both Aaron and Barbara ask, however, which comes first, the tools or the pedagogy? The easy answer is that the pedagogy should drive the decisions about tools. But these days, the tools offer ways to really transform the pedagogy in ways we haven’t even begun to think about yet. That’s what Barbara is immersed in. And that’s what we’ll need more of to realize whatever potential there is.

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i think this is the wrong question to ask. the question to ask is “what can i do next?”, and then use whatever tools you have. pedagogies are tools; are technologies. when you start saying which determines which, you start dismissing the key point/fulcrum of learning, which is the student, the learner. that person or those people determine both the technologies and pedagogies. (note: i put this into a form closer to english on 1-18)

the Backseat Kiss – Snow Globes:
Backseat Kiss Snow Globes
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watch the kittie?

Edublog Revisited:
In Edublog Revisited, Rochelle the wise muses on Educational Blogging: Long ago a small group of educators got together and formed a group called Edublog. The point, as I recall, was to create blogs for educational use; to promote the…

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contrary to popular belief, there is no edublog initiative.

Weapon inspectors fly out of Iraq:
It seems the US has finally accepted what everybody already knew: Sadam didn’t have any weapons of massive destruction or was trying to make them when the country was invaded. The US inspectors sent to the country to verify…
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imagine that… no wmd….. is this surprising?

A humanist future: Now that God is dead: printer friendly version:
God is dead.

Even the confident religions know this. When their god was overwhelmingly alive he did not permit them to mingle with the followers of other gods: Now they come together to increase the volume of their protests against the noisy indifference of the scoffers in the market place. But the god of the marketplace is also dead. Secular confidence in the ability of atheistic rationality to deliver the good society has been undermined by an invasion of the angry ghosts of dead religion and by the ugly excesses of materialist consumerism.

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mmmm nihlism, tasty….

OA library of indigenous knowledge:
T. V. Padma, Digital library to protect indigenous knowledge, SciDev.Net, January 10, 2005. Excerpt: ‘South Asian countries will create a digital library of the region’s traditional knowledge and develop laws to prevent such knowledge being misappropriated through commercial patents. The plan was announced at a two-day workshop held in Delhi, India, last week by the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).

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this is very important. if ip does exist, and this is debatable, then much of it has been stolen.

Salary Clock | Check your real time earnings:
http://salaryclock.com/

somewhat depressing.

MilkandCookies – Monkey Taunts Tiger:
http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/12072/

this is pretty funny….

Growing Up Global – written road blog:
“The writers represented here are the “privileged homeless,” according to Pico Iyer, whose brilliant, witty essay opens this collection by those who remember growing up as foreigners with families always on the move. Army brats, missionaries’ children, diplomats’ children, or those whose parents just couldn’t stay put, these adult writers still feel like strangers everywhere, longing to belong even as they fear attachment. There is sometimes a whining note of self-pity– you can hear the therapy session–and, except as metaphor, these restless essayists don’t even see the “streetbums” around them, the millions of child refugees and migrant workers who are truly homeless today. But many of the best writers, including Isabel Allende, Ariel Dorfman, and Tara Bahrampour, speak eloquently about the pain and also the riches of the search for home. Pat Conroy didn’t like the military life: “Each year I began my life all over again . . . and I think it damaged me.” In contrast, Carlos Fuentes found identity in contact, in contrast, in breakthrough. The editors provide excellent commentary and author bios.” —Hazel Rochman

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