This is a 4-minute plea from the generation that will take over from the boomers to vote in this election. Only the oldest of this largest generation in American history will get to vote, but now is the start of the takeover. Just in [...]
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Cover image I really enjoy large non-fiction books about a single simple subjects. Salt, for example. Or networks. Or candy. Now one has come out about sewage. Rose George is an investigative journalist. I’ve got this one on order. The story of civilization has been the story of separating you from your waste. British investigative journalist Rose [...] You remember the old Wassup commercials by Annheiser-Busch for Budweiser beer, right? Now you can see an updated version for our times, with a nice twist at [...] This is a short clip about beer, and friends, and women. Guess which one gets the [...] In a recent report by Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb we discover Howard Rheingold has been busy making the Social Media Classroom. This may have a significant effect on Moodle, another open-source project for a CMS (Classroom Management System). Although they are different, with SMC focusing on communication, and Moodle focusing on Management, I foresee that [...] The OEC is a truly monumental (2 billion words, each tagged by country, and more) digital expansion of the incredible Oxford English Dictionary. Note the OED is less than 100 years old. Now with this new and constantly updated “root” source of information you can drill down and get information about words in myriad [...]
fantastic contraption I don’t like to study, but I love to learn. Serious Games and Persuasive Games are two books I have been reading recently. They are about using games in education. I like this idea, and have written about it before. Here are a couple of games. Try them out and see how well you can [...] On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears at the United Nations site. Now you can see it in a new format that brings out the ideas more clearly. Get more information at the Human Rights [...] Sublime. Gail Collins, the progressive, wishing for good old times. How can you assemble the faults in such a simple way? Here we [...] From BoingBoing, we have a great (short, 14 minute video) assessment of the Keating scandal and John McCain’s role in [...] |
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