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Web site of a thesis looking at internet images/ metaphors and how they effect us and the dialogue between us and the metaphors. "The research is based on the premise that the process of interacting with the Internet generates new metaphors, which in turn affect our interaction with the Internet."

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If you don't keep your mind open to new experiences, you are in the way of learning. If you take more than you give, you are in the way of learning. If you use your voice to tear apart learning metaphors, destroy other people's ideas, or make personal attacks, however passive aggressive, you are in the way of learning.

computers can support learners, open doors to a world of possibilities and learning opportunities and global thinking. They can provide a chance for every child to learn their own way and construct their own knowledge. They can facilitate conversations with other people and other children around the world. They can knock down the isolation of a classroom's four walls and invite in the voices, experience and passion of the entire planet.

I guess that as I approach my one year anniversary of building my on-line personal learning network I've gotten used to the fact that you can't read everything. You can't watch everything. I feel like I'm standing at the river's edge; there is a constant flow of interesting information (with the occasional bits of flotsam) and if you try to catch everything you'll drown.

Jessica Hagy uses graphs to make sense of our world. She is deft at finding hidden truths in places we all look at, but are blind to.

Cool Photo search tool uses sun/planets metaphor for tag map