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Sia Vogel

How to Save the World - 0 views

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    Very interesting discussion about how Google Wave will change everything by DavePollard
Ed Webb

Regaining some perspective | TechTicker - 0 views

  • I also sometimes wonder what role – if any – that the writing process (blogging) has played in this. This is hardly to suggest that blogging makes you a radical. However through ongoing reflection and exploration of ideas, I think it can solidify and sharpen existing opinions, and take what may have once been only the seeds of thought and grow them into something far more substantial.
  • In some regards the topic of education is just as contentious as that of politics, and all too easy to become divided by false or artificial delineations.  If we’re going to start to make progress and bring learning and teaching into the 21st century I think the best, most effective, and sustainable way to achieve this is to do it together.
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    Thought-provoking - thanks, Mike
Ed Webb

M.I.T. Lets Student Bloggers Post Without Censoring - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • M.I.T.’s bloggers, who are paid $10 an hour for up to four hours a week, offer thoughts on anything that might interest a prospective student.
  • “High school students read the blogs, and they come in and say ‘I can’t believe Haverford students get to do such interesting things with their summers,’ ” he said. “There’s no better way for students to learn about a college than from other students.”
  • “We saw very quickly that prospective students were engaging with each other and building their own community,”
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  • annual “Meet the Bloggers” session at Campus Preview Weekend.
  • “The annual blogger selection is like the admissions office’s own running of the bulls,”
  • Ms. Kim once wrote about how the resident advising system was making it impossible for her to move out of her housing — expressing enough irritation that the housing office requested that the admissions office take her post down. Officials refused, instead having the housing office post a rebuttal of her accusations; eventually, the system was changed.
 Lisa Durff

The Roving Librarian · The Downside of Web 2.0 - 5 views

    •  Lisa Durff
       
      Interesting question! Certainly web 2.0 can facilitate connection-making.
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