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Tania Sheko

why I tearfully deleted my Pinterest inspiration boards - 25 views

  •  “YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE, APPLICATION, SERVICES AND SITE CONTENT REMAINS WITH YOU.”  (yes, this is in ALL CAPS right in their TOU for a reason).   And then, there is this: “you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold Cold Brew Labs, its officers, directors, employees and agents, harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising out of or in any way connected with (i) your access to or use of the Site, Application, Services or Site Content, (ii) your Member Content, or (iii) your violation of these Terms.”   This “defend and indemnify” stuff means that if some photographer out there decides that he or she does not want you using that photogs images as “inspiration” or otherwise and decides to sue you and Pinterest over your use of that photog’s images, you will have to hire a lawyer for yourself and YOU will have to hire a lawyer for Pinterest and fund the costs of defending both of you in court. 
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Ulrich Schrader

Table of Contents: New Media Technologies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning ... - 0 views

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    Collection of articles arround new media technologies. Lots of stuff to read.
Fred Delventhal

8 Easy Firefox Tweaks for Super Fast Web Browsing by mad WAHM - 0 views

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    from kjarrett
Bruce Vigneault

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008) - 0 views

  • It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.
    • Bill Guinee
       
      I have a stack of books I should be reading right now, but I am cruizing the internet instead.
  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
  • As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      Maybe we are learning a new mental skill and as a choice are letting go of a skill that we no longer find useful?
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  • The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing.
  • He speculates on the answer: “What if I do all my reading on the web not so much because the way I read has changed, i.e. I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has changed?”
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      I'm not sure that this is necessarily a 'bad thing'?
  • I’ve lost the ability to do that
  • “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins.
  • “We are how we read.
  • mere decoders of information
  • Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings.
  • our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.
  • The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      It is scary to beleive that this organic change to our brain is being driven by commercialism!
  • In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.” And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.” They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.”
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      Ahhh... so with each new step in technology this same 'scare' is felt by the elite ;)
  • The Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectual laziness, making men “less studious” and weakening their minds.
  • I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.
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    What the Internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas Carr Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Fred Delventhal

Addictionary :: What's your word? - 0 views

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    Not for kids. Some of the stuff on the front page when this was bookmarked was very inappropriate.
Dave Truss

» An Open Letter to Teachers Bud the Teacher - 0 views

  • I hope you take lots of risks for the sake of learning this year. Not just for your students, but also for you. Make it a goal to try to learn something in a sustained and meaningful way that has little to do with your classroom life.
  • Be an expert when you need to be. Be a learner always. You are probably the most experienced learner in your classroom. But don’t assume you’re the most knowledgable person or object. If you’ve a computer handy, then you’re not. Embrace that. Relationships and mentoring cannot be outsourced or Googled. They take time and genuine concern.
  • You need no one’s permission to postpone a due date or modify an assignment for the benefit of a student, or to delay some grading for the benefit of yourself or your family.
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  • And share the good stuff. Your stories are all human ones, and they are all special, just as each one of you, and each of your students, is special. There is always someone curious about what you’re up to.
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    As you gear up in whatever way that you do, I selfishly wanted to jot down a few reminders that I'd be telling myself if I were about to get started.
anonymous

Lookybook | Home - 0 views

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    I've been thinking a lot about electronic books since I got my Kindle. And then I saw this on the Library Stuff blog...very interesting idea!
Jennifer Maddrell

HitchHikr Aggregation of NECC 2007 - 0 views

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    Aggregation of Necc07 - how about the twitter stuff?
edtechtalk

more mac bad stuff - 0 views

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edtechtalk

More Twitter Stuff - 0 views

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edtechtalk

new screen sharing video conferencing stuff - 0 views

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Paul McKenzie

Smarter Ways to Use the Smart Board with Math Core Content - 1 views

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    There's some pretty good stuff here.
sorand

Changing the way of searching today with TripleMe - 31 views

Try this search http://www.tripleme.com - it is really good stuff! TripleMe.COM fetching you results from Yahoo, Google and MSN Live on one screen in three columns, allowing users to quickly find...

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started by sorand on 25 Apr 08 no follow-up yet
anonymous

Neat New Stuff on the Net - Weekly Reviews of Useful Sites by Marylaine Block - 0 views

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    For those ous us who don't have lots of time to find new things.
anonymous

100 Free Online Lectures that Will Make You a Better Teacher | Best Universities - 0 views

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    Lots of good stuff here.
Barbara Lindsey

The More Things Change... - 0 views

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    GREAT Alan Levine presentation
anonymous

Mad Libs Official Website » Fun Stuff - 0 views

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    Madlibs online way cool.
Rick Beach

Screenjelly - What's on your screen? - 3 views

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    Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email. Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like. To start recording, click on the red button. No need to install or download anything!
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    free tool to create a screencast up to three minutes
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