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"Another type of newsletter has taken off recently, aggregating links like Rusty Foster's Today in Tabs, Alexis Madrigal's 5 Intriguing Things, and 5 Useful Articles by Parker Higgins and Sarah Jeong. This what Jason Kottke and Things Magazine have done for more than a decade on the web. Who? Weekly from Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber -all about "wholebrities" the not particularly famous people who somehow make their way in celebrity gossip magazines - definitely would have been a blog ten years ago (or a zine twenty years before that). A couple of TinyLetters are written in a voice that I haven't heard since the early years of blogging. Dan Hon's Things That Have Caught My Attention and 6 by Charlie Loyd write commentary that is somewhere in between editorial and diary, for friends and potential friends. "

"Mapping Networks of Reprinting in 19th-Century Newspapers and Magazines" Really cool digital humanities project

Several parents and academics I interviewed think Minecraft servers offer children a crucial "third place" to mature, where they can gather together outside the scrutiny and authority at home and school,

A distinctly different feel/tone than the VCU CT article...

Ongoing series of profiles on new University building construction, including a few learning spaces.

"Today's students are more tech-savvy than students of just a few years ago, White notes. They grow up using tablets and not only are prepared to use VR but also are already able to think in 3D, White says. "Educational opportunities will literally only be limited by our own imaginations." "

trends in education related to online learning opportunities

"We live in an age when all manner of scientific knowledge-from climate change to vaccinations-faces furious opposition. Some even have doubts about the moon landing."

"What follows is - depending on how you want to think about it - either a gallery of technologies we lost or an invitation to consider alternate futures. Some of what might have been is fantastical: a subway powered by air, an engine run off the heat of your palm. Some of what we lost, on the other hand, is more subtle, like a better way to bowl or type. As new standards emerge, variety fades, and a single technology becomes entrenched. (That's why the inefficient Qwerty keyboard has proved so difficult to unseat.) We can take heart, however, in the fact that good ideas never disappear forever; the Stirling engine didn't pan out in the Industrial Revolution, for example, but it can keep the lights on for a small village. As you look through the images, then, please consider not only what might have been but what could still be again."

This is what community can look like online.

Beautiful, informative, multimodal composition.