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

Making Movies

You can make your own movie in the Kerpoof Animation Studio! Pick a background. Pick characters from Kerpoof. See what each character can do. Now make up a story for them. It’s easy and fun!

[From Kerpoofâ„¢ How to Play]

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kerpoof looks pretty cool, i think it would be interesting to use in a classroom.

Red and Black Day

(Special Event)

The Virginia Tech and Blacksburg communities are invited to participate in Red and Black Day to show solidarity for Northern Illinois University.

For more information, visit the event sponsor

[From Event]

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red and black day in support of Northern Illinois University sponsored by Hokies United. If you are a Hokie, show some support for our colleagues and students. There will also be a candlelight vigil in the burg.

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this is a great little puppet show about neoliberalism with great social and political theoretical basis. from monochrome

What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really.

[From Weblogg-ed » What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really.]

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there is an interesting discussion occurring at weblogg-ed about kids and learning. my addition is that kids have learned to be compartmentalized, not taking intellectual risks, and losing to some extent their curiousities in favor of performance of others’ goals.

The Symposium on Comparative Analysis of National Research Systems was held in UNESCO headquarters in Paris, 16-18 January 2008. it provided a venue of discussion on the basis of Professors’ Johann Mouton and Roland Waast studies on knowledge and research systems of 52 low and middle-income countries. About 130 experts were invited to compare and exchange knowledge and views on the methodology and the quality of the country reviews. [From Symposium on Comparative Analysis of National Research Systems]

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this is the second symposium on this topic, and these reports are interesting reading.they cover the arab, african, south american and asian systems.

Uno the beagle becomes first of his breed to win Westminster

[From Uno the beagle becomes first of his breed to win Westminster -- baltimoresun.com]

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we had a sport beagle when i was a kid. abigail… i had a basset hound. i like beagles. I wish people would just stop saying they bark… cause beagles ’sound’ off. they sound when excited, else they are pretty quiet.

Please distribute broadly as appropriate-jh

Call for Submissions deadline March 1, 2008.

Information on Internet Research Degrees and Research Programs.

In the International Handbook of Internet Research (Springer, 2008),
we intend to include two appendices. This call includes information
for each submission. Internet research is broadly conceived in this
call, so if you have material that you think will fit, please submit it.

Appendix 1 will be a listing of Research Degree Programs, that is
programs that offer either an Master’s or Doctoral level degree
relating to internet research. We intend to include as many programs
as we can collect within editorial discretion and space limitations.

To have your degree program/s included in this listing, please send
the following information:
Name of Program:
Departmental home/s of Program:
University/Institutional home of Program:
Address of Program:
Short description of Program (250 words):
Listing of contributing faculty working in internet research:
and other pertinent information to be included at editor’s discretion.

Appendix 2 will be a listing of Major Research Centers/Institutes in
the field of Internet Research. Inclusion in the list will be at the
editors’ discretion, but we will strive to be reasonably inclusive
given space limitations.

To have a Center included in this listing please send the following
information:

Name of Center/Institute:
Institutional home of center/institute:
Address of center/institute:
Short Description of Program (250 words):
Listing of fewer than 10 research topics/keywords:
Listing of leading members of the center/institute:
Listing of founders of the center/institute:
Listing of recent research projects/publications (up to 5
bibliographic citations with up to 50 word descriptions which may be
edited because of space limitations):
Listing of affiliated research centers as appropriate:

Please submit this information to: handbook08@gmail.com with the
subject ‘degree’ for degree programs and the subject line ‘center’ for
research centers. The deadline for submission is March 1, if you need
more time, please contact us at the address above.

Thank you,
Handbook Editors
Jeremy Hunsinger
Matthew Allen
Lisbeth Klastrup

We are pleased to announce that the CDDC is providing web hosting and maintenance for Fifth-Estate-Online. This “International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism” publishes peer-reviewed academic articles, as well as commentaries, book reviews, and multimedia galleries. Since its launch in 2005, the journal and its contributors have been examining the role and power of mass media, both in historical and contemporary terms. Fifth-Estate-Online is a timely and welcome addition to our Center’s holdings, and we invite everyone to visit – and perhaps even contribute to – this fine online journal. [From center for digital discourse and culture]

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great news, congratulations brent.

In recent years, scientists who work for and advise the federal government have seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies have systematically limited public and policy maker access to critical scientific information. To document this abuse, the Union of Concerned Scientists has created the A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science.

[From A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science]

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this is a great resource. we need more work like this to be present in the world. People have to know that not everything presented as knowledge is not political… in fact, i’d say none is apolitical, but the type of politics is the question, this site highlights the real partisan politics type of interference.