Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University

This seems like a good jumping off point for either group looking at Africa.

Interesting article about the theories that claim the Egyptians used electricity. In present day Iraq, an object was found that worked as a battery to produce light. There is also ancient art suggesting that the Egyptians used electricity.

A pretty general website about a lot of different writing systems of the ancient world. It also has a few links to some linguistic stuff, if you're into that sort of thing.

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The writing system in Japanese is one way to indicate the Eastern influence and Western influence in the country. Borrowed words from Chinese, and romanization make the system more flourishing in culture contents. The article also gives examples of how the system works.

Protestant missionaries came to Kenya and taught new converts how to read and write so that they could read the bible for themselves. After learning how to read and write, they took it further and published things for themselves such as newspapers and magazines. Even today the church is still involved in some magazine publishing in Kenya.

Old review of a site designed for online K-12, non-traditional school education. Mostly bookmarked here as a placeholder for the actual service, k12.com

9 page paper on using technology (especially podcast) an teaching.

Portal for numerous blogs and articles about class-related Blogging. Contains 23 separate blogs posts on the subject "Educational Rationale for and Pedagogy of Blogging", and numerous links for subjects like "Student Safety and Responsible Blogging ", "Blogging statistics and research," Evaluating Blogs - Rubrics" and 50+ examples of Student/Teacher Blogs for Classes.

Blog post containing a dozen links to other posts with Twitter-tech teaching tips.

Professor thinks laptops encourage thoughtless transcription of lectures, give bored students something to do. It's only a matter of time before he goes this far: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80925439/

54 very simple slides. A bit dated (3 yrs. old). Even the idea of seeing someone's slide show without them presenting says a lot; the experience of getting information this way is a subject all its own.

10 slides from someone's presentation on media/tech in classroom. Raises points, explains little.

MSNBC's article on the GlobeScan survey used in the BBC article on the subject of internet access as a human right.

BBC report on a survey (done by GlobeScan) on Internet Access as a Human Right. Interesting that so much of the world is barely media literate, yet thinks internet access is a human right(?)

Surat dari teman di tahun 2070 ini menggabarkan di tahun 2070 dimana tidak ada air,udara yang bersih serta kekeringan yang panjang dan penuaan yang cepat serta umur manusia yang pendek, itu merupakan gambaran dari tahun 2070 jika kita di tahun ini tidak menjaga kelestarian alam dimana yang sekarang ini banyak terjadi polusi udara,banjir,gempa bumi, dan kekeringan selain itu bencana alam tidak dapat diperkirakan oleh alat-alat yang cangih mari kita jaga bumi ini untuk anak cucu kita

Finland alternative education model