Link Leecher - Link Validator

Image via WikipediaQuestion: when confronted with a mass of links on a page (as we often are this time of year with year-end blog post) I was astounded by the page on fimoculous.com that links to the best blogs of the year. I found link leecher and it found and validated all the links on the page. I stripped them off the web page into Word and send them back for search purposes. I don't know that this is unethical. I am not claiming them for myself and I am exploring them just as fimoculous.com wanted. Here are the links in slightly edited form:

Generated by linkleecher.com 01.01.2009 12:42 GMT

363 link(s) found for:

http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-5554.cfm




http://www.nytimes.com/ref/topnews/blog-index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/topnews/blog-index.html

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://proof.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://www.techcrunch.com/

http://scobleizer.com/

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-blogsplashpage-sg,0,843001.special

http://bonerparty.tumblr.com/

http://bonerparty.tumblr.com/

http://thesuperficial.com/

http://bonerparty.tumblr.com/post/59897694/if-i-was-this-much-of-a-fucking-10-id-probably

http://streetbonersandtvcarnage.com/

http://goldenfiddle.com/

http://www.tumblr.com/browse/tumblettes

http://www.newsless.org/

http://www.newsless.org/

http://snarkmarket.com/blog/

http://robinsloan.com/epic/

http://vita.mn/

http://www.themoneymeltdown.com/

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/matt-thompson-wikipediaing-the-news/

http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/

http://www.urlesque.com/

http://www.urlesque.com/

http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/

http://www.metafilter.com/

http://www.listicles.com/

http://www.nonsociety.com/

http://www.nonsociety.com/

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5025026/julia-allisons-wired-cover-++-yes-its-real

http://kottke.org/08/07/just-dont-look

http://baugher.tumblr.com/

http://www.jakeandamir.com/

http://www.lastnightsparty.com/

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/magazine/21wwln-medium-t.html

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

http://www.lastnightsparty.com/hotelbasel/slides/IMG_7430.html

http://www.lastnightsparty.com/misshapes3/slides/IMG_0890.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Kennedy

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

http://www.thecobrasnake.com/partyphotos.html

http://www.nickydigital.com/index.php

http://guestofaguest.com/

http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/

http://randomnightout.com/

http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/

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http://cancelthebee.blogspot.com/

http://www.journerdism.com/

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45

http://www.rocketboom.com/category/know-your-meme/

http://www.rocketboom.com/category/know-your-meme/

http://www.rocketboom.com/rb_08_dec_24/

http://www.rocketboom.com/rb_07_dec_27/

http://www.rocketboom.com/rb_08_oct_24/

http://roflcon.org/

http://revision3.com/internetsuperstar/

http://pop17.com/

http://internetfamo.us/class/

http://www.verysmallarray.com/

http://www.verysmallarray.com/

http://www.verysmallarray.com/?p=425

http://www.verysmallarray.com/?p=508

http://www.verysmallarray.com/?cat=11

http://earlboykins.blogspot.com/

http://www.infosthetics.com/

http://io9.com/

http://io9.com/

http://io9.com/361597/the-twenty-science-fiction-novels-that-will-change-your-life/

http://io9.com/5075449/

http://io9.com/363649/the-scifi-obsession-of-dungeons-and-dragons-creator-gary-gygax

http://offworld.com/

http://sfsignal.com

http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/

http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/index/blogs

http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/

http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200805/cosby

http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-06-03/news/keepin-it-unreal/

http://www.tnr.com/blogs/index.html

http://theassimilatednegro.blogspot.com/

http://www.theroot.com/

http://magicmolly.tumblr.com/

http://magicmolly.tumblr.com/

http://pixelspread.com/tumblr/awards/

http://nplusonemag.com/kickstart-my-heart

http://thisrecording.com/contributing-editor-molly-young/

http://nplusonemag.com/review-elegy

http://thisrecording.com/2008/04/29/in-which-sasha-grey-is-a-new-kind-of-porn-star/

http://blog.topherchris.com/

http://catbird.tumblr.com/

http://hrrrthrrr.tumblr.com/

http://www.kungfugrippe.com/

http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/

http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/

http://mediation.tumblr.com/

http://antikris.tumblr.com/

http://frangry.tumblr.com/

http://whatwoulddondraperdo.tumblr.com/

http://whatwoulddondraperdo.tumblr.com/

http://blog.iamchuckbass.com/

http://firenickdouglas.tumblr.com/

http://rexsscarf.tumblr.com/

http://www.tomorrowmuseum.com/

http://www.tomorrowmuseum.com/

http://kottke.org/07/12/best-blogs-of-2007

http://www.tomorrowmuseum.com/2008/06/19/microcelebrity-and-frienemies/

http://www.tomorrowmuseum.com/2008/09/29/new-media-in-fiction-will-there-ever-be-an-iphone-novel/

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/

http://themorningnews.org/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/

http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-1825.cfm

http://radarchive.tumblr.com/

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

http://keithgessen.tumblr.com/

http://keithgessen.tumblr.com/

http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-4630.cfm

http://keithgessen.tumblr.com/post/37431203/choire-and-emily

http://gawker.com/

http://keithgessen.tumblr.com/post/38210628/faq

http://www.themillionsblog.com/

http://litmob.com/

http://blogs.lubbockonline.com/geek/

http://www.emilymagazine.com/

http://videogum.com/

http://videogum.com/

http://videogum.com/archives/animals-on-film/the-live-puppy-feed-of-our-hop_032571.html

http://videogum.com/archives/cute-as-balls/amelie-jr-1_033501.html

http://videogum.com/archives/feuds/when-icet-was-born-people-was_010572.html

http://videogum.com/archives/top-challenge/top-challenge-top-chef-quickfi_009006.html

http://twitter.com/fimoculous/statuses/783736588

http://www.tilzy.tv/

http://www.firstshowing.net/

http://videos.antville.org/

http://flavorwire.com/

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

http://waxy.org/2008/06/interview_with_alan_taylor_creator_of_boston_globes_the_big_picture/

http://mediastorm.org/blog/

http://moodstream.gettyimages.com/

http://gawker.com/

http://gawker.com/

http://www.radaronline.com/

http://nymag.com/news/features/39319/

http://valleywag.gawker.com/339271/denton-to-pay-bloggers-based-on-traffic

http://gawker.com/news/accidents-will-happen/a-long-dark-early-evening-of-the-soul-with-keith-gessen-328558.php

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/11/two_gawker_editors_decide_not.html

http://www.observer.com/2007/gawker-loses-third-editor-three-days

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/business/media/17gawker.html?_r=1

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25internet-t.html?pagewanted=all

http://thisrecording.com/2008/02/11/in-which-all-in-all-youre-just-another-bloggeur-in-the-wall/

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/06/emily_goulds_book_proposal.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lizz-winstead/jezebelism_b_110903.html

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/07/moe-tkacik-radar-hires-jezebel.php

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/07/moe-tkacik-sticks-with-gawker.php

http://gawker.com/5036258/rex-sorgatzs-posse

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2008/10/05/blogonomics-gawker-kills-pay-per-pageview

http://gawker.com/5040739/choire-sicha-to-radar

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/10/gabriel-snyder-said-to-take-over-gawker.php

http://www.observer.com/2008/media/denton-shuffles-deck-hires-snyder-m-e-gawker-moe-tkacik-let-go

http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/44334548/alex-balk-midwesterner

http://gawker.com/5068313/radar-folding

http://nickdenton.org/5083616/a-2009-internet-media-plan

http://gawker.com/5101908/my-underwear-is-the-future-of-the-internet-economy

http://www.observer.com/2008/media/gawkers-alex-pareene-nearly-quits-goes-part-time-instead-gawker-media-lays-some-tech-depa

http://nickguidodenton.tumblr.com/

http://coverawards.com/

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_fre.php

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/10/cloud_culture.php

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/11/screen_fluency.php

http://kk.org/ct2/2008/06/tools-for-vizuality.php

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/metagold/

http://culture11.com/blogs/textpatterns/

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks

http://www.alleyinsider.com/

http://www.alleyinsider.com/

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-12/ff_blodget?currentPage=all

http://clusterstock.alleyinsider.com/

http://businesssheet.alleyinsider.com/

http://www.paidcontent.org/

http://www.techmeme.com/

http://thisrecording.com/

http://thisrecording.com/

http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-4679.cfm

http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/in-which-there-is-something-alive-in-your-stomach-and-its-looking-at-me/

http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/in-which-we-attempt-to-make-our-actions-more-varied-than-they-actually-are/

http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/in-which-anselm-kiefer-takes-two-steps-out-from-the-muck/

http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/in-which-you-made-our-whole-deployment/

http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/in-which-we-defend-diablo-cody/

http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/in-which-i-play-something-for-you-on-my-space-bass/

http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/in-which-friday-links-are-served-with-a-pasolini-sauce-and-a-francis-bacon-dessert/

http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/in-which-sasha-grey-is-a-new-kind-of-porn-star/

http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/in-which-the-1980s-were-a-simpler-time/

http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/in-which-chris-farleys-death-is-probably-your-fault/

http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/in-which-this-fortune-is-yours-for-the-taking/

http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/in-which-love-went-mad/

http://publicschoolintelligentsia.com/

http://www.feyfriends.com/

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/

http://xkcd.com/

http://xkcd.com/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/2008/10/cartoonoff-xkcd.html

http://xkcd.com/481/

http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/10/08/youtube-audio-preview/

http://xkcd.com/386/

http://xkcd.com/446/

http://xkcd.com/401/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/

http://www.gapingvoid.com/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/

http://www.inquisitr.com/13390/2009-will-be-the-year-of-the-uber-blog/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/big-fat-story/

http://www.culture11.com

http://alltop.com/

http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/

http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/

http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=195937_-1__0_~0_-1_6_2008_0_0&em3161=&em3281=

http://idolator.com/398682/kanye-west-ghost+blogging-controversy-may-result-in-another-broken-macbook-air-pretty-soon

http://azizisbored.tumblr.com/

http://lovelypackage.com/

http://prettymuchamazing.com/

http://www.avc.com/

http://www.avc.com/

http://twitter.com/fredwilson

http://fredwilson.vc/

http://fredwilson.vc/post/66140773/my-top-5-artists-week-ending-2008-12-21

http://fredwilson.vc/post/57424509/gotham-gal-and-i-are-john-and-yoko-tonight-via

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/04/we-need-a-new-p.html

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/06/the-power-of-go.html

http://www.shirky.com/

http://www.roughtype.com/

http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/

http://waxy.org/

http://waxy.org/

http://anamariecox.typepad.com/

http://waxy.org/2008/09/girl_turk/

http://waxy.org/2008/05/the_whitburn_project_onehit_wonders_and_pop_longevity/

http://waxy.org/2008/08/pirating_the_olympics_then_and_now/

http://waxy.org/2008/04/fanboy_supercuts_obsessive_video_montages/

http://waxy.org/2008/03/abort_retry_or/

http://anamariecox.typepad.com/ana_marie_cox/2008/10/index.html

http://youngmanhattanite.tumblr.com/

http://ascii.textfiles.com/

http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/

http://www.tonypierce.com/blog/bloggy.htm

http://twitter.com/

http://twitter.com/

http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-3535.cfm

http://posterous.com/

http://www.4chan.org/

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

http://www.politico.com/

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

http://flowingdata.com/

http://kottke.org/08/02/single-serving-sites

http://kottke.org/08/02/single-serving-sites

http://yourethemannowdog.com/

http://www.webhamster.com/

http://www.islostarepeat.com/

http://istwitterdown.com/

http://emptyage.honan.net/

http://barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com/

http://kottke.org/08/02/single-serving-sites

http://too.blogspot.com/

http://isthisyourpaperonsingleservingsites.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

http://icanhascheezburger.com/

http://twitter.com/rachelsklar

http://www.noahbrier.com/

http://waxy.org/

http://www.emilymagazine.com/

http://goldenfiddle.com/

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/

http://www.lindsayism.com/

http://www.tomorrowmuseum.com/

http://www.newsless.org/

http://blog.spout.com/

http://www.kellaroot.com/

http://snarkmarket.com/blog/

http://mediation.tumblr.com/

http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-464.cfm

http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-661.cfm

http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-748.cfm

http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-1825.cfm

http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-3535.cfm

http://www.fimoculous.com/print.cfm?id=5554

http://yvynyl.tumblr.com

http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-3535.cfm

http://curiouslypersistent.wordpress.com

http://experiencecurve.com

http://www.nytpick.com/

http://nedward.org

http://marginalrevolution.com

http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein

http://delong.typepad.com/

http://harryh.org

http://www.thisrecording.com

http://slyoyster.com

http://twitter.com/djackmanson

Have You Made a Difference?

• Have You Made a Difference?

  • We have come to the end of 2008 and soon we will enter 2009. Now is a good time for you to reflect on how your life is going. How have your year been? Did it meet your expectation? Have you made a difference this year?

    To answer this question, simply look at yourself one year ago. How was your career and finance? How was you spiritually? How was your health? How was your relationships? It’s better if you have numbers that clearly show you how you were (after all, measuring your life is a good life management practice). For instance, what was your income, expenses, net worth, or weight?

    Next, compare your situation back then with your current situation. Is there any difference? Or have you let this year pass by without any significant growth on your part?

    Another way to see whether or not you have made a difference this year is to look at your habits. What bad habits did you eliminate this year? What good habits did you form?

    One more question to ask yourself is: what lessons did you learn this year? Perhaps you had some failures, but if those failures taught you valuable lessons then it was time well spent.

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Fine objectives for all of my teaching every day. I should have these maxims in front of me in the morning when I get up and on a 3X5 card before each class and at a place where I can look at it at night as I go to sleep.

• What is EduCon 2.1?

• EduCon 2.1 is both a conversation and a conference.And it is not a technology conference. It is an education conference. It is, hopefully, an innovation conference where we can come together, both in person and virtually, to discuss the future of schools. Every session will be an opportunity to discuss and debate ideas -- from the very practical to the big dreams.
  

• • The Axioms

    Guiding Principles of EduCon 2.1
    1) Our schools must be inquiry-driven, thoughtful and empowering for all members
    2) Our schools must be about co-creating -- together with our students -- the 21st Century Citizen
    3) Technology must serve pedagogy, not the other way around.
    4) Technology must enable students to research, create, communicate and collaborate
    5) Learning can -- and must -- be networked.
    
    
    

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tags: conference, educon21, unconference

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World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others | Edutopia

I have been experimenting with using Diigo to improve my blog workflow.  Part of that improvement plan is to use worthwhile articles as touchstones for my own thoughts.  Diigo makes this plan simple although the commenting is never easy.  Today's blog is a commentary on Will Richardson's World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others | Edutopia.


Welcome to the Collaboration Age, where even the youngest among us are on the Web, tapping into what are without question some of the most transformative connecting technologies the world has ever seen. These tools are allowing us not only to mine the wisdom and experiences of the more than one billion people now online but also to connect with them to further our understanding of the global experience and do good work together. These tools are fast changing, decidedly social, and rich with powerful learning opportunities for us all, if we can figure out how to leverage their potential.

• If this is true (that we are entering the Collaboration Age) then what are the implications for such 'non-collaborative' dudes like me. What does it mean in my life both professionally and personally? I have to say that collaboration is what is missing in my university life. In high school I worked with students in drama classes and that seemed to scratch that itch very happily, but in higher education the isolation can be even more profound, especially for non-tenured staff teaching five courses a semester. - post by tellio

Our ability to learn whatever we want, whenever we want, from whomever we want is rendering the linear, age-grouped, teacher-guided curriculum less and less relevant.

• My question is this: is collaborative work supplanting curriculum, is it supplementing, is hybridization occurring, or is this something as yet undescribed, inchoate, and emergent? Messy, yes? I think that we can safely say that with access to larger circles and greater resources that the curriculum is turning into a many armed spiral with each student at its core. - post by tellio                                                  

Working together is becoming the norm, not the exception.

• Somebody needs to point me to a place where this assertion is quantified. In my life I don't find this to be true except at the household and family level. At the tribal level not so much and at the organizational level, hardly at all. - post by tellio

The Collaboration Age is about learning with a decidedly different group of "others," people whom we may not know and may never meet, but who share our passions and interests and are willing to invest in exploring them together. It's about being able to form safe, effective networks and communities around those explorations, trust and be trusted in the process, and contribute to the conversations and co-creations that grow from them. It's about working together to create our own curricula, texts, and classrooms built around deep inquiry into the defining questions of the group. It's about solving problems together and sharing the knowledge we've gained with wide audiences.

• Great a definition with criteria! Good on ya, Will. 1. We will bowl with strangers who share our passions and learning goals. 2. We will collaborate in safety. 3. These collaborations will crystallize around various threads in networks--expeditions/quests. 4. We will co-evolve as we talk and create together. 5. What we will create is the road of our own learning, a circuit that spirals out and then back around the 'deep inquiry' we are sharing. 6. These collaborations will solve problems and share results. Sounds like large scale science as it is being practiced today. Where are these models and how can we adapt them to learning lives. 4. - post by tellio

I believe their best, most memorable, and most effective teachers will be the ones they discover, not the ones they are given.

• This is the basic idea behind 'unschooling' and has its intellectual heritage in John Holt and Ivan Illich and Paolo Freire. This was the credo I lived by when my wife and I raised our children at home. - post by tellio

More than learning content, the emphasis of these projects is on using the Web's social-networking tools to teach global collaboration and communication, allowing students to create their own networks in the process.

• I would like to see some follow-up of these students as they take these skills into their personal and learning lives. - post by tellio

The complexities of editing information online cannot be sequestered and taught in a six-week unit. This has to be the way we do our work each day.

• I think that the idea of role modelling may have jumped this shark. First, the suggested role here is way wider than any ever contemplated by organizational charts anywhere. In fact, most teachers would say, "This is way above my pay grade." Second, the role suggested here is more like that of a parent or an elder or a guru. None of these is democratic enough to suit the collaborative model Will suggests earlier. Third, we have to decide what is developmentally suitable for learners. Last, to do this "at every turn, in every class" is neither realistic or necessary. Part of the problem of schools is this relentless, misapplication of workflow efficiency. I say add back the interstices. We need the silent gaps, the lube of pointless conversation, and the joy of pointlessness. - post by tellio

The process of collaboration begins with our willingness to share our work and our passions publicly -- a frontier that traditional schools have rarely crossed.

• School frontiers? That is an oxymoron. Schools are mostly interested in their own imperatives. I don't think that they are interested in pushing into any direction that ultimately threatens those institutional imperatives. Rarely crossed? Nicely understated. They are 'traditional' schools by virtue of having never crossed them. That is why I think that when conditions arise, most schools will fold like a newbie at Texas holdem. - post by tellio

Look no further than Wikipedia to see the potential; say what you will of its veracity, no one can deny that it represents the incredible potential of working with others online for a common purpose.

• A stone has potential, too, but until someone picks it up and uses it (perhaps to throw it through the crystal palace of traditional schooling) it is pretty much useless. I know and appreciate the work some people are doing to lay down the parallel tracks for a new learning space. Will is pointing to one of these new spaces. To my mind it is no specific place, but rather anywhere people gather to learn. Our role is to go where the learners are and ask them how we can help. - post by tellio

The technologies we block in their classrooms flourish in their bedrooms

• OK, this is the crux. Either we go where they are or we go away. If they ignore us like they do now, then the effect is the same. We are dead teachers lecturing. You say, "Class dismissed," and look up to see they are long gone and there is chalkdust on all the desks. - post by tellio

Anyone with a passion for something can connect to others with that same passion -- and begin to co-create and colearn the same way many of our students already do.

• How can we make this as second nature as going to school for twenty years has become? There are very few societal supports for such a 'structure' but we must take advantage of those that are there and we must make sure that no one (Google and Facebook to name two) get their hands on the wheel alone. - post by tellio

I believe that is what educators must do now. We must engage with these new technologies and their potential to expand our own understanding and methods in this vastly different landscape. We must know for ourselves how to create, grow, and navigate these collaborative spaces in safe, effective, and ethical ways. And we must be able to model those shifts for our students and counsel them effectively when they run across problems with these tools.

Yes, we must prowl around this new 'Serengeti'. Yes, like Odysseus, we need to be skilled in all ways of contending in this sea of terror and delight. Yes, it must be clear to students that we are learners on a continuum and that respect is earned by not only walking the walk, but in making the road as we walk it with them. - post by tellio

Thanks, Will for being my touchstone. 

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  • Australian court serves documents via Facebook

    The big question about Facebook is does it have any valuable commercial application? Well it seems that the courts have found one.

    Today in what appears to be a first in Australia and perhaps the world, Master Harper of the ACT Supreme Court ordered that a default judgement could be served on defendants by notification on Facebook.

    (more at Sydney Morning Herald)

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Walkers crisps | Simply 100% Great British Potatoes

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Beware of School

• Beware of School "Reformers"

  Alfie Kohn nails it and then we get Arne Duncan
  
  • "Political progressives are in short supply on the president-elect’s list of cabinet nominees.  When he turns his attention to the Department of Education, what are the chances he will choose someone who is educationally progressive?
  • Both Duncan and Klein pride themselves on new programs that pay students for higher grades or scores.  Both champion the practice of forcing low-scoring students to repeat a grade —a strategy that research overwhelmingly finds counterproductive.  Coincidentally, Darling-Hammond wrote about just such campaigns against “social promotion” in New York and Chicago, pointing out that politicians keep trotting out the same failed get-tough strategies “with no sense of irony or institutional memory.”  In that same 2001 essay, she also showed how earlier experiments with high-stakes testing have mostly served to increase the dropout rate.
  • Notice that these features are already pervasive, which means “reform” actually signals more of the same—or, perhaps, intensification of the status quo with variations like one-size-fits-all national curriculum standards or longer school days (or years).  Almost never questioned, meanwhile, are the core elements of traditional schooling, such as lectures, worksheets, quizzes, grades, homework, punitive discipline, and competition.  That would require real reform, which of course is off the table.

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• I want to: Web 2.0 applications, utilities and resources

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17 Ways to Get Free Books | Frugal Panda

• 17 Ways to Get Free Books | Frugal Panda

  • 17 Ways to Get Free Books

    You can never have too many books, so we are delighted to share with you some ways to get them for free. From children’s books to technical books, there are numerous resources that offer literature for free. Some of the following sites offer actual printed books, while others feature electronic books (aka “ebooks”). Please bear in mind that the list is alphabetized, not ordered by importance.

    1. Bibliomania - Bibliomania is a simple and fast-loading site that offers over 2000 classic books, short stories, plays and poems online. From Mark Twain to William Shakespeare, some of the world’s greatest writers are included on the site. All you have to do is browse the site’s genre sections or search for a specific text, then you are presented with it directly on the site’s page. Users can seamlessly stroll through each page with this site, as it isn’t bogged down with flashy graphics.

    Bibliomania is an invaluable tool for book lovers, as well as students and teachers. Teachers for the classroom could print off excerpts from classic texts. Also, study guides are available on the site, should you need to cram for a big test. Should you wish to purchase a physical copy of a featured text, you can be directed to a store where you will can order the text online with a credit card.

  I love free books.  What's not to love?

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Daddy, Where's Your Phone? - O'Reilly Radar

• Daddy, Where's Your Phone? - O'Reilly Radar

  tags: mobilelearning, digital_natives, educational_leadership

  • "But I plead guilty to Kamla's charge: I think about the web as experienced on a PC, and then about mobile as an add on. The tipping point has come; that notion has to flip: if we're trying to get ahead of the curve, we need to think first about the phone, and then think about the PC browser experience as the add-on."
    Because I work in a computer lab classroom (I am indeed a lucky dude to have such a teaching assistant) I do not tend to notice this until I see a student texting in the back of the classroom. For him the computer keyboard within arm's reach is nowhere near as compelling as the one in his hand. I feel like I am standing on stone in the middle of the creek as the rain pelts down and it has just occurred to me that I can't stay where I am for long. Swim, rat, swim!
    
  
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Tellio's InterWeb Notes 11/26/2008 (p.m.)

• tinytags - make a little text tag graphic

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Using Diigo to Improve Blog Workflow

This is a demonstration of the power of diigo as a research and info gathering system. All of what you see below is a nearly automatic result of using diigo to bookmark, annotate, and highlight web content. I use diigo to find content, to highlight, to annotate, and to post via integrated blog tools included in diigo. I now have an edit of my previous post which is now less raw commentary on Jeffrey Young's excelent chronicle article with some links and slideshow added. My next posts will pull out a few relevant and interesting items and then elaborate a bit on them.

• Will Electric Professors Dream of Virtual Tenure? - Chronicle.com

  tags: futureversity, singularity, x-prize

• • Singularity University
    • How far are we going to allow computers to advise us? Perhaps they would make better learning brokers or at least be better in bringing the multiplicity of the net and aggregat it into a "program of study".
      
  • Interdisciplinary, Intercultural and International:
    • These are the trinity of the International Space University. I think that they might also be the mission statement for any futureversity.

  • How would thinking machines reshape campus life?

    • This is the meat of the article. I want to know how this singularity university affects me. Will I be out of a job? Will it make my job easier, faster, better? Where will I need to go to accomodate? Do I need to check out of higher ed and move into another form of ed? Worldwide effects?
    
    
  • "I'm one or two orders of magnitude more productive today because of the global knowledge system the Internet has enabled."
    • I would have to agree with this. Google as second brain (some seem to think that it is their only brain) is a metaphor I use with my students in class all the time. I can only imagine the connectivity online search represents to get tighter and more profound at the same time just as it already has.
      
  • "Perhaps we'll soon have machines recording everything we say, see, and hear, allowing us to retrieve experiences we now lose to forgetfulness."
    • Reminds me of Kevin Kelly's website, The Quantified Self--Good info is inevitably customized to small "t" truths that make your life meaningful.
      
  • Computerized research assistants
    • What kind of topology is being suggested here? Would these research assistants be experts on top or on tap? As it exists now humans are still at the hub of any system, but perhaps we need to move to a heliocentric system where the research bots are at the center and we orbit them. Personally, I prefer a jungle ecology system, a learning society of mind like MInsky writes about.
      
    • They already exist--google alerts for example. What we need are researchbots--oops they already exist, too.
      
  • "The whole fabric..."
    • Interesting metaphor, our strength derives from the interlocking thread elements.
      
  • "Let's face it, the human brain isn't getting any zippier."
    • What a great motto or signature or bumper sticker! I certainly wish I could tag this comment.
      
  • "These new computer teachers will have more patience than any human lecturer, and they will be able to offer every student individual attention— which sure beats a 500-person lecture course."
    • All hail the Comptutor! This frees up teachers to do.....? Creative work. Designing even wiser and better comptutors?
      
  • "Virtual professors probably won't ask for tenure. And Mr. Goertzel sees them as key to expanding educational opportunities, by greatly reducing the price of a high-quality education."
    • I think that we are already well past the fork in the road and some of us are dead teachers walking. Take a look at David Wiley's slideshare on this and then rub that thought together with the idea of the comptutor as learning broker and you will know what I mean.
      Openness and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education

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  • "For example, if the technology falls into the wrong hands, it could aid terrorists or repressive dictators."
    • I could see an educational panopticon with the ultimate evil high school counselor sitting like a giant hypnotoad in the center of it all directing us toward the greater good.
      

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Instructional Design Template

http://www.scribd.com/share/upload/5491104/1oz71i4k0t9f44xacbfn

 

Here is the scribd version of a design doc I found online.
Instructional Design Template Page 1

Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Education Colleges and Univers template instructiional desig

Best Practices in Diigo

http://www.amphi.com/~technology/techtalks/online/nov08/bestpract.htm

 

Here are the annotations associated with this page:

Best Practices

• The proliferation of Web 2.0 tools on the web offers numerous ways of collaborating with students and colleagues.  One of the most exciting and valuable tools I have seen recently is Diigo, especially with the introduction of Diigo for Educator accounts. 
• Diigo is a social bookmarking site similar to Delicious but with more features that are beneficial for the classroom.
• The first great thing about Diigo is that your bookmarks follow you wherever you go.  When you bookmark a site using your Diigo account, you can have access to it at work, home, the computer lab or library.  The other great thing is that once you bookmark it, you can share your book mark links with students and colleagues and they can all have access to your sites.   
  • This would be the first reason to use Diigo in the classroom comment by Amy Cordova
• The next big plus to Diigo is that you get to “tag” the sites you want to bookmark.  A tag is the classification system you determine so you can organize your bookmarks and find the link the next time you need it; this is known as a folksonomy. 
•  The great thing is that you can share your Diigo bookmark list with your students, and they can click on the Greek Mythology tag and see all of the resource for the unit.  But, now let’s get to the “social” part of social bookmarking.  Let’s say you find a really awesome site for your unit on Greek Mythology, and you tag it on Diigo.  You see when you look at your bookmark list that 72 other people have tagged that exact same site.  You can see the lists of the other people who have tagged that site, and you might discover a 6th grade teacher in Wisconsin who has an amazing list of Greek mythology sites that you didn’t even know about.  Now you have taken advantage of the social part of the bookmarking process by adding some of those bookmarks to your list. 
• One of my favorite features of Diigo and what separates it apart from Delicious for me is the ability to highlight and add sticky notes.  That’s right, I can highlight the key parts of a web page or article and add sticky notes. Every time I come back to that page, when I am logged into Diigo, I will see my highlights and sticky notes. One of the goals as educators is that we must help students learn to read effectively on the web and give them the tools to be successful. Diigo is one of those tools. 
• We know that many students do not know how to highlight effectively.  Many students highlight everything.  We can teach them strategies how to selectively highlight by modeling aloud how we read a paragraph and select the key words and phrases to highlight.  We can have them use the sticky notes to list main ideas, details, and key points they want to remember.  Students could then be given a passage or article to practice with and then share what they have highlighted with a partner using the Diigo sharing capability and discuss why they highlighted certain parts and made certain notes.   
• On the sticky note the teacher could ask questions and Diigo allows people to comment and reply to the questions on the sticky note.  Students could also add sticky notes for other students to comment on as well.  Another way to use the highlighting tool is that students could go through an article and highlight all of the vocabulary that they didn’t know and learn what it means prior to reading the article.  Or students could put sticky notes about questions they have when reading the text. 
• I heard about a teacher who is planning to use Diigo to have students use the highlight and sticky note comments to peer edit student writing done in Google Docs.   
• One of the best things about the educator accounts is that you can create the student accounts, and students do not need to provide an e-mail address.  Another nice feature in Diigo is that you can upload an Excel spreadsheet in .csv format with student names, usernames and passwords, and the accounts are created in an instant. 
• Diigo provides a 21st century collaborative learning tool that students can use to process, organize, analyze, evaluate and share information.  Try it out with your students today.

Now you can take the highlighting and summarize it or quote it  or annotate.  I would love to be able to tag my sticky notes. 

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• Your Personal Online Brand - It Begins with your Facebook Profile | The Digital Student Blog

  tags: no_tag

• » Thinking Thru the Syllabus Networked Knowledge: ATEC 6V81 (University Texas at Dallas)

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  • Interresting idea: getting feedback on your syllabus on the internet . - post by theron_d
  • 
    • A truly clean class design. - post by tellio

• CiteULike: academicdave's library [65 articles]

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• Your Personal Online Brand - It Begins with your Facebook Profile | The Digital Student Blog

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• » Thinking Thru the Syllabus Networked Knowledge: ATEC 6V81 (University Texas at Dallas)

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  • 
    • A truly clean class design. - post by tellio

• CiteULike: academicdave's library [65 articles]

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Public Intellectual 2.0 - ChronicleReview.com

The Chronicle, no less, comes out with a qualified alright-y for blogs as a vehicle for public intellectuals, but you may not that there are no comments available. Sigh. They still don't get the larger affordances of blogging, its openness. The Chronicle in many ways is still a closed silo, run by the elite for the elite. Long live the public intellectual life of the folk.

There are, of course, limits to the ways in which blogs aid public intellectuals. It is not clear how many academics will choose to embrace the technology. The academic politics of blogging can also be problematic, particularly for younger scholars focused on tenure. Another emerging problem is that professionalization is creeping into the blogosphere. Popular bloggers are also increasingly paid bloggers — and the emergence of what Irving Howe called a "phalanx of solidarity" among prominent bloggers might retard public debate.

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• Zotero Forums - General Principles http://ping.fm/etTfc via http://ping.fm/K6J3m
  
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Zotero Group at Diigo 11/23/2008

• xmlcss_2.gif (GIF Image, 1500x780 pixels) - Scaled (94%)

  tags: no_tag

• Nikon | Coolpix 2100 Firmware Update 1.1 - Windows

  tags: coolpix, 2100

• HAVEN - Community - Dialogue Zone

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  • 
    
    
    "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
    
    -- Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness
    • Stories are the atoms of communication. - post by tellio

• Pageflakes - Mark's Web 2.0 Research Tools USC

  tags: pageflakes

• Zotero Forums - General Principles

  The specific tools I use are Zotero (for citations, bookmarking, and note taking), EndNote (for citations and bibliographies), OpenOffice Writer (for note taking), and diigo (for bookmarking and annotations). I find I have to use both Zotero and EndNote because the latter handles lots of references (I have about 20,000) very well and because it integrates much better with my university's reference databases like CSA, EBSCO, or Science Direct, as well as with publishers' online databases and notification services like Blackwell Synergy. In general, I find EndNote much more "lightweight" (i.e., quicker to use and more responsive) than Zotero, but its integration with ordinary web documents and note-taking features are far weaker. I say "ordinary web documents" because most of the time with pdf files and other even slightly out of the ordinary web material (e.g., any of the U.S. Census Bureau's surveys), I have to enter the citation information manually. I use OpenOffice.org Writer to take notes involving mathematics, since it's much better for this than Zotero (or Word or EndNote). I use diigo to annotate and comment on web pages, including online pdf documents. None of the other tools comes close on this function.
  
  One thing none of these packages does well is deal with web pages being displayed under a parent page. For example, if I use LexisNexis to retrieve newspaper articles, they appear as pdf files in a frame (I think it's a frame). Neither Zotero nor diigo gets the correct citation information, and neither EndNote nor OpenOffice Writer are designed even to try. I have to enter the bibliographic information manually, and I'm not even sure the URL will be reliable in Zotero or diigo since it points to the LexisNexis interface rather than to the individual newspaper article.
  
  In any case, because no one application has all the functionality I need, I have some items' reference information in EndNote, Zotero, or diigo and notes in Zotero, EndNote, or as separate OO.o files. In addition, before using this set of

  tags: zotero, workflow, EndNote, OpenOffice

  • 
    • Need to develop workflow management into regular production. - post by tellio
  • The specific tools I use are Zotero (for citations, bookmarking, and note taking), EndNote (for citations and bibliographies), OpenOffice Writer (for note taking), and diigo (for bookmarking and annotations). I find I have to use both Zotero and EndNote because the latter handles lots of references (I have about 20,000) very well and because it integrates much better with my university's reference databases like CSA, EBSCO, or Science Direct, as well as with publishers' online databases and notification services like Blackwell Synergy.
  • In any case, because no one application has all the functionality I need, I have some items' reference information in EndNote, Zotero, or diigo and notes in Zotero, EndNote, or as separate OO.o files. In addition, before using this set of tools I used Scribe and WikidPad.
  • 
    • Opportunities for consulting, books, classes--personal learning environments that combine f2f with p2p. - post by tellio

• Center for History and New Media » Blog Archive » George Mason’s Center for History & New Media, Emory University Libraries Announce Zotero Partnership

  tags: no_tag

  • Since its introduction in 2006, Zotero has earned significant
    
    accolades for its facilitation of online research. It was named a PC
    
    Magazine’s “Best Free Software” in 2007 and again this year, as well
    
    as “Best Instructional Software” of 2007 as determined by the
    
    Information Technology and Politics section of the American Political
    
    Science Association.
  • 
    • More accolades for Zotero. - post by tellio

• FINAL REPORT | DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH

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• xmlcss_2.gif (GIF Image, 1500x780 pixels) - Scaled (94%)

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• Nikon | Coolpix 2100 Firmware Update 1.1 - Windows

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• HAVEN - Community - Dialogue Zone

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  • 
    
    
    "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
    
    -- Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness
    • Stories are the atoms of communication. - post by tellio

• Pageflakes - Mark's Web 2.0 Research Tools USC

  tags: pageflakes

• Zotero Forums - General Principles

  The specific tools I use are Zotero (for citations, bookmarking, and note taking), EndNote (for citations and bibliographies), OpenOffice Writer (for note taking), and diigo (for bookmarking and annotations). I find I have to use both Zotero and EndNote because the latter handles lots of references (I have about 20,000) very well and because it integrates much better with my university's reference databases like CSA, EBSCO, or Science Direct, as well as with publishers' online databases and notification services like Blackwell Synergy. In general, I find EndNote much more "lightweight" (i.e., quicker to use and more responsive) than Zotero, but its integration with ordinary web documents and note-taking features are far weaker. I say "ordinary web documents" because most of the time with pdf files and other even slightly out of the ordinary web material (e.g., any of the U.S. Census Bureau's surveys), I have to enter the citation information manually. I use OpenOffice.org Writer to take notes involving mathematics, since it's much better for this than Zotero (or Word or EndNote). I use diigo to annotate and comment on web pages, including online pdf documents. None of the other tools comes close on this function.
  
  One thing none of these packages does well is deal with web pages being displayed under a parent page. For example, if I use LexisNexis to retrieve newspaper articles, they appear as pdf files in a frame (I think it's a frame). Neither Zotero nor diigo gets the correct citation information, and neither EndNote nor OpenOffice Writer are designed even to try. I have to enter the bibliographic information manually, and I'm not even sure the URL will be reliable in Zotero or diigo since it points to the LexisNexis interface rather than to the individual newspaper article.
  
  In any case, because no one application has all the functionality I need, I have some items' reference information in EndNote, Zotero, or diigo and notes in Zotero, EndNote, or as separate OO.o files. In addition, before using this set of

  tags: zotero, workflow, EndNote, OpenOffice

  • 
    • Need to develop workflow management into regular production. - post by tellio
  • The specific tools I use are Zotero (for citations, bookmarking, and note taking), EndNote (for citations and bibliographies), OpenOffice Writer (for note taking), and diigo (for bookmarking and annotations). I find I have to use both Zotero and EndNote because the latter handles lots of references (I have about 20,000) very well and because it integrates much better with my university's reference databases like CSA, EBSCO, or Science Direct, as well as with publishers' online databases and notification services like Blackwell Synergy.
  • In any case, because no one application has all the functionality I need, I have some items' reference information in EndNote, Zotero, or diigo and notes in Zotero, EndNote, or as separate OO.o files. In addition, before using this set of tools I used Scribe and WikidPad.
  • 
    • Opportunities for consulting, books, classes--personal learning environments that combine f2f with p2p. - post by tellio

• Center for History and New Media » Blog Archive » George Mason’s Center for History & New Media, Emory University Libraries Announce Zotero Partnership

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  • Since its introduction in 2006, Zotero has earned significant
    
    accolades for its facilitation of online research. It was named a PC
    
    Magazine’s “Best Free Software” in 2007 and again this year, as well
    
    as “Best Instructional Software” of 2007 as determined by the
    
    Information Technology and Politics section of the American Political
    
    Science Association.
  • 
    • More accolades for Zotero. - post by tellio

• FINAL REPORT | DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH

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Middlespot: Sharing Research

Here is a sample of research done using social research tool, Middlespot. You can email, embed, and otherwise make available research much like you can in diigo's WebSlides. Easy to use and I am just now beginning to explore it. (continue reading &aquo;)

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• Arianna Huffington: Obama's Call to Service Meets the Economic Meltdown

  tags: obama, huffington

  • On Monday afternoon I got a blast email from the Obama campaign. I immediately wondered what I was going to be asked to do: Donate to the Franken campaign? Make calls for Jim Martin down in Georgia?

    
    
    

    It turned out to be neither. The campaign was letting me know that barackobama.com was directing visitors to volunteer for -- or donate to -- relief efforts to aid the victims of the Southern California fires.

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Tellio's InterWeb Notes 11/21/2008

• Arianna Huffington: Obama's Call to Service Meets the Economic Meltdown

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  • On Monday afternoon I got a blast email from the Obama campaign. I immediately wondered what I was going to be asked to do: Donate to the Franken campaign? Make calls for Jim Martin down in Georgia?

    
    
    

    It turned out to be neither. The campaign was letting me know that barackobama.com was directing visitors to volunteer for -- or donate to -- relief efforts to aid the victims of the Southern California fires.

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Digital Youth Research: MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Series

What are digital learners really like?

The conclusions are sane, compassionate, and compelling: in a nutshell, the "serious" stuff we all hope kids will do online (researching papers and so on) are only possible within a framework of "hanging out, messing around and geeking out." That is to say, all the "time-wasting" social stuff kids do online are key to their explorations and education online.

So what does this mean for teachers at all levels?


First, Facebook, YouTube, WorldOfWarcraft, iPods, and mobile tech are ensconced in youth culture. This means not only that it is a deep part of their common lives, but that the right to its use will be defended Alamo-style. This means that peer culture will be an even harder nut to break through to. So...do we need to 'teach' this stuff or facilitate its use. Or some other path that Frost never ever dreamed of.

Second, these digerati use the network to mostly reinforce existing peer networks, but also to join specialized new ones. I have long thought that we need to adopt an added stance as learning brokers for our students, guiding them toward the best tools and people that fit their strengths and interests.

Third, students need to be shown the meta of learning. They are already powerful learners within these new social networks so how do we get them to become aware of and to leverage their own strategies. Yes, learning how to play one simulation is useful in playing another, but how can that learning be extended into the F2F?

Fourth, don't bother assessing this stuff. The network has its own methods that it users either buy into or don't.

I am going to read the whole report and write more later, but for now I leave you with this quote from a fifteen year old Georgia student:

Trial and error, I guess. It’s like any—whenever I learn anything with computers, I’ve
taught myself how to use computers, and I consider myself very knowledgeable about
them, but I just—I learn everything on my own, just figure it out, and the same with cam-
eras. It’s like a cell phone. I just figure out how to do it, and it’s pretty quick and easy”
(Patricia Lange, YouTube and Video Bloggers).

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Twitter Updates for 2008-11-19

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Zotero Group at Diigo 11/19/2008

• edtechpost » SESSION 2 - Mashing up your own PLE

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• fd's Flickr Toys: Do fun stuff with your photos

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  • GREAT assortment of free tools to create photo projects.
    - post by cburell
  • U?yteczne zabawki dla Flickr. - post by mendrek
  • ??Flickr?? - post by geneboy

• Between Trapezes -- Six Steps

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• Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 sites directory

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  • This is really a great site. I wonder how often it's updated. - post by seadap
  • This is an amazing collection of tools with examples - post by kathibak
  • amazing! - post by nettzevo
  • Fantastic site! - post by kosmos2k
  • A directory of web 2.0 applications and services - post by gerchik

  • Very up to date web2.0 directory - even got WebSlides up already

    - post by maggie_diigo
  • ????? ???????????! - post by danila
  • Sweet. Ajaxy directory of Web 2.0 apps (whatever that means). Just mouse over to get a quick description of what they are. Nice since I miss Mashable.com's list.
    - post by bluecockatoo
  • I love web 2.0 and this is a great site too look at some of the cool new sites.
    - post by szutyo
  • This is a comprehensive list of Web 2.0 sites.
    - post by youcanreachtim
  • Great Directory of many of the latest Web 2.0 sites.
    - post by youcanreachtim
  • A wall of logos of the latest web 2.0 applications. Find what you need. Discover what you don't... - post by ebouvier
  • Sammlung von web2.0 Anwendungen - post by akpe76
  • Go2Web20.net has a not-quite-comprehensive collction of web2.0 services. - post by iconolith
  • flash application - post by jeanmichelg
  • Listing of many sites - post by tapirka
  • the complete Web 2.0 directory - post by jdrsantos
  • A wall of logos of the latest web 2.0 applications. Find what you need. Discover what you don't... - post by stiphen
  • web 2.0 ???????????? - post by msnbwam3
  • Site flash presentant les sites WEB20 et leur logo - post by fardeen
  • Toàn b? danh sách các site Web 2.0 ???c s?p x?p theo d?ng gallery. Nó c?ng là m?t th? vi?n v? logo ?áng xem cho các designer. - post by sonnymotives
  • WEB2.0?????? - post by kgl0903
  • The complete Web 2.0 directory - post by deeskillman
  • easy search for lost findings - post by sylvesterbecker
  • ****** - post by jackie
  • ****** - post by minimo
  • ****** - post by jackiege
  • ****** - post by jackiege
  • The complete Web 2.0 directory - post by geneboy
  • ****** - post by jackiege
  • web2.0??????????? - post by m_mor_
  • Tagline: "The complete Web 2.0 directory." What's really cool, though, is the awesome interface. It appears quite thorough. - post by docbadwrench
  • ?????????????????????? - post by hepodo
  • wowwowwow!!! <-my completely pointless comment of the day - post by telecommatt
  • Logos and details about so many web 2.0 companies - post by suscreative

• CogDogRoo » Web 2.0 Gem Starters

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• CogDogRoo » StoryTools - Annotated

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  • Great list, and I appreciate how they were organized by categories. - post by go2net
  • We could use this for lessons... I'm going to try as many as I can - post by andyriddle
  • http://voicethread.com Weave uploaded or flickr imported images into a media presentation with multiple voices. Record audio, video, or add text or drawn annotations. Others can add video, audio, and text comments as well. See also VoiceThread for Education wiki.
    • Voicethread looks great for student collaborative presentations - post by gjhugs
  • http://ping.fm/xttYU Create posters with images, video, audio (uploaded or recorded) and apply a wide range of text effects- note that each one is relatively large sized (may not fit in blog page)
    • Just added and edu section. I have some students who are starting to create posters for class. Our church youth group leaders are using glogster to create posters for events and posting them on facebook. - post by rjacklin
    • Not sure about this for classroom use but will give it a whirl - post by gjhugs
  • http://ping.fm/pBFsu It's YouTube for PowerPoint. Upload Powerpoint/Keynote/PDF content and converts to Flash easily embedded in other web sites. Provide a URL for an audio track, and you can sync it to create an audio narrated "slidecast"
    • Have used this, slow upload but works well - post by gjhugs

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Tellio's InterWeb Notes 11/19/2008

• edtechpost » SESSION 2 - Mashing up your own PLE

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• fd's Flickr Toys: Do fun stuff with your photos

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• Between Trapezes -- Six Steps

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• Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 sites directory

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• CogDogRoo » Web 2.0 Gem Starters

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• CogDogRoo » StoryTools - Annotated

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Twitter Updates for 2008-11-17

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Zotero Group at Diigo 11/17/2008

• retrieve_pdf_metadata_screencast [Zotero Documentation]

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Tellio's InterWeb Notes 11/17/2008

• retrieve_pdf_metadata_screencast [Zotero Documentation]

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Creepy Treehouses, Again.

Beth Coleman, Free Culture, and the Network Effect - Trebor Scholz 'journalisms' - Collectivate.net

Yochai Benkler correctly suggests that "peer production is as efficient and significant for the 21 century as the assembly line was for the 20th century." I also agree with Benkler when he suggests that through peer production "people can do more by and for themselves" but I add that the pleasures of online sociality are exploited. Communities are often deceived and commodified. They are unfairly used as a resource, often without their consent and knowledge. It's a bit like Mark Twain's "Whitewashing the Fence" in Tom Sawyer.

I am chastized by this post. Here I am a hopeless cheerleader for social networking tools and not considering how I am just a tool for the likes of YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr. Yes, they are useful, but they also use. They derive their ultimate value from using our cognitive surplus. And so goes the capitalist metaphor round and round wherever the invisible hand flicks it. Crack the whip and play and be the new social networking tool. How can I look my audience in the eye next week as I know how deeply I serve our insect overlords? (continue reading &aquo;)

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• @willrich45 I use the firefox extension Morning Coffee to automagixally bring up Pandora first thing in the morning at boot up. #


• "No, the opportunity is not to create the next great website for modeling bottom-up community activity,but to go and actually do the stuff." #


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• Let me make another metaphor: you have a hundred people playing Russian roulette, and one of them killed themselves, and ..http://lin.cr/a7p #


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• Listening to the sweet drizzle of rain in a sugary patter on my roof. #


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Tellio's InterWeb Notes 11/16/2008

• Hive Five: Five Best Remote Desktop Tools

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• YouTube - Robert Burden's Voltron

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• DR>TELLIO

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• Seth’s blog » Blog Archive » Learning Chinese in Beijing

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• Seth’s blog » Blog Archive » Natural versus Unnatural Learning

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• How to Stop Procrastinating So that I Am Not a Bum - A Self-experiment | FlowingData

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• Intelligent Design Rules Out God's Sovereignty Over Chance - David White - Open Salon

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• 25 Ways to Build Your Community | chrisbrogan.com

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• Social Ecology community of practice - Google Scholar

  tags: ecology, scholar, CoP

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb - TIME

So do you feel vindicated by this current crisis?I feel angry. Very, very angry. I described the way it happened, I described the mistakes, and I see all these people explaining it backwards. Let me make another metaphor: you have a hundred people playing Russian roulette, and one of them killed themselves, and economists are theorizing that he killed himself because he held the gun in a certain way. You require something vastly more structural. Let's go back to roots. Let's do real things. Let's have more transparency, fewer complicated products we don't understand. Let's generate economic growth by old traditional ways, let's favor technology companies, let's not favor all this financial bulls---. Because it was a Ponzi scheme, I don't know any other way to call it.

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