It is no secret that mainstream media tends to dislike the blogosphere and many bloggers (particularly political ones) dislike mainstream media. However, I find the current Associated Press assault on quotations used on the Drudge Retort (with links, mind you) as short as 35 words to be #1 Shortsighted and #2 the wrong thing to do for mainstream media. (Hat tip to Will Richardson and Jeff Jarvis .) It is all about eyeballs. Whoever gets the eyeballs gets the advertising dollar. However, if mainstream media would wake up and realize that many of us are getting our breaking news from twitter , (I’ve settled for following BreakingNewsOn from the Netherlands - REAL news sources inundate me - they do about 3 updates a day.), perhaps they could add value to our lives instead of inundating us with 24/7 news online. Online, we don’t want 24/7 news -- if we want that, we’ll watch cable. We want snippets of the news and update...
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westwood » ZohoNotebook
Our Zohonotebook project -- we will be finishing up tomorrow -- you can see those that are using it for computer science topics and those who have term papers are using it for research there -- we’re working through the project and finding it very useful.
Keynote Address in Torquay | 2¢ Worth
Keynote at NAACE delivered via Second life -- fascinating overview of this meeting -- talks about schome -- a must read overview. by Jim Knight, Mini...
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Last night on Wow2 was a high energy, amazing discussion about the future of libraries. I found myself longing for Joyce Valenza or Doug Johnson to be someone that my students could learn from. Listen to the show to be inspired and learn a whole lot. My takeaways from this are: ...
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What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? - WSJ.com
"In most countries, education feels like a car factory. In Finland, the teachers are the entrepreneurs," says Mr. Schleicher, of the Paris-based OECD, which began the international student test in 2000. The teacherpreneur at work!
Women of Web 2.0 Show # 65 | EdTechTalk
Doug Johnson and Joyce Valenza talk about the future of libraries. Great show!
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I blogged this morning about the Many Voices for Darfur project. My students at Westwood Schools are speaking out in the following ways: Some students have compiled resources in a Zoho Notebook and one student Made his on personal notebook calling for change. Shelby blogged publicly blogged on her youth voices about what she and her friends are doing. Other students were going to blog it and link to Shelby’s post. We had two students call the White House using information f...
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