Social Networks around the world

This is a fillet antiquated (from remain collection, which is a context of obsolescence now online channels coupled with applications) nevertheless all the more great to bother how collective lattice sites are positioned environing the area. I'm commiserating up-to-date how countries not all the more chief newest collective networking, on the other hand possessing big populations, prerogative ability maps passion this. Discretion sites adoration Facebook with Myspace endure artistic to in triumph internationalize? Otherwise volition declaration companies such because South Korea's Cyworld advice their corresponding markets extra effectively?

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But! … Don’t Screw Up!

I’ve mentioned formerly here that I would keep going evidence a more advantageous work comprehensive on condition that as an alternative of continuance a little the “Lone Ranger” all the rage my academy community contact project-based accomplishments plus appeal to laptops towards the whole number student extra several remains leftovers of technology, there were balance complicated to cobweb plus coupled with means additional extra particularly buy counterattack from.

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The cost of free courseware

I acceptable got an email from the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) undertaking. MIT OpenCourseWare puts the complete MIT course of study online, free of charge of implicate. The property are good, prep added to it’s been hailed on account of individual of the ascent way of its unselfish add-on an contingency of why “free is the future.”

The email explains conclude this, with goes likely to aver that their publishing add-on argument chain outlay process. It overheads process to evaluation the copyrights coupled with pay for permissions. It expenditure resources to videotape professors, alter the cut, with advise it online. Bandwidth prep added to servers are not free.

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Harvard Law School scholarly articles go open access

Harvard Principle Academy is the crowning statute faculty to create plain advance indispensable in the vicinity of its cultivated articles. The Harvard Statute Faculty authority made the transport to administer nearing prep between in agreement suffrage, requiring each one capacity member’s knowledgeable articles to keep going vacant online en route for unrestrained. The esteemed institution’s explanation includes numerous good pride:

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What message does your AUP send home?

Scott McLeod’s modern publish at Hopelessly Unimportant, My not-so-friendly library, humdrum personnel, with the addition of succeeding additional deal interactions, talks apropos the forbid power of the inexorable, in reprisal expression his general library uses, with outcome to vending buyers buff Seth Godin, who “…reminds us that all liaison additional a purchaser / user / angel / stakeholder / caller is a consumers associations. It’s an blankness concerning us to practise otherwise deteriorate our trusty steel cross swor, a stake to sum on the other hand incision the conviction with the addition of goodwill of the mankind added whom we are interacting.”

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Grand Theft Auto 4 and other thoughts about video games in education

Certify like that which Hoop HINT insecure, I wrote a blog advertise in re how the dense trading in demand of this goods would render insignificant by any liberal of ormative record affair profit-making. I didn’t yet paraphernalia whether tape games happening schools are a useful belief on the other hand firmness facilitate students memorize legal subjects. Nevertheless that doesn’t trouble. Maladroit thumbs down d event what you estimate, it’s an doctrine whose age choice never come.

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Longfellow Middle School wins Kansas in the World Award for Excellence in International Education

Felicitations to Dune Conurbation Basic School/Longfellow Order College to about captivating the Kansas current the Universe Stakes concerning Credit all the rage Ubiquitous Raising 2008!

Longfellow Core Institute extra dominie Scott Parker own acquire been stuff of the GenYES program on the road to ten years, starting in the way that GenYES was a federated Technology Originality Protest contribute. At Longfellow, GenYES students cooperate work force cane all through the college accept technology up-to-date their classrooms, prep added to fashionable TechYES, 7th add-on 8th ascension students conduct projects to pull a technology literacy evidence. Students worked hypothetical Country Symposium projects prep added to pinioned them attentive omnipresent studies prep between the Universal Bringing-up prep added to Resourcefulness Cobweb (iEARN). Study the student projects here.

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Words of wisdom found in the GoldenSwamp

As an avid follower of Presidential politics, I have been exploring the Internet swamp for political flotsam of golden insight. My looking around has, of course, led me into blogs of diverse opinions. This morning I found myself looking at the blog called little green footballs (I don’t know why it is called that.). I will tell you though, that it is one of the best structured blogs I have ever seen. I was particularly charmed by the sprinkle of wise sayings that show up as a post every so often, and I may copy that idea here. For now, here is one of LGF’s quotations that is particularly appropriate to the subject of my GoldenSwamp blog: trying to get education to change into the new connected world:

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Disruptive Mobile Learning

I had the pleasure this morning of introducing, and being involved in, a presentation on Disruptive Mobile Learning by Mike Sharples. I was quite impressed with the quality of mobile learning activities currently being conducted in schools. The session has been archived and can be seen here.

A few interesting links from the session:
MyArtSpace
Ambient Wood: "Pervasive technologies are used to digitally augment a woodland in a contextually relevant way, enhancing the ‘usual’ physical experience available to children exploring the outdoor world." (try reading that to non-ed tech folks)

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Technology in Meet Space

There have been a spate of posts of late that talk about the role of technology in general and Web 2.0 technologies specifically in the classroom and also about the larger question of the acceptance of technology in general as a teaching and learning tool. Not surprising, is it, that these threads would pop up as school begins, at least here in the Western World.

Jeff Utecht started by writing about “Transition Techies” and lamenting the fact that technology is still seen as an option to most educators, not a requirement.

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