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"Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow.""

A professional reflection on facilitating Visible Knowledge. I particularly like their 4 Cs: Connections, Complexity, Content and Commitment. This is a fine summation of the desired experience generated by "Learning to Look"

This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online.

"It seems as though far less people are actually using and contributing to the site than Twitter's recent hype and massive growth would suggest. In fact, the data shows that a large percentage of Twitter users have not "tweeted" since the first day they joined the service and at least a quarter of its users don't have any followers at all."

Some great ideas for using ICTs to teach poetry

ICTEV09 Presentation on how ICT can be utilized to teach poetry.

You might find this basic overview of strategies and links helpful to pass along to colleagues.

Free Text To Speech (TTS) Free Audio Book Podcast

Essentially iTunesU has come to YouTube. What do you think?

If you are into Twitter, here are tools to make the most of it.

His most recent book, Five Minds for the Future, offers some advice for policy-makers on how to do a better job of preparing students for the 21st century. Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Gardner about his new book, the possibility of teaching ethics and how his concept of multiple intelligences has changed over time.

Here's an interesting way to use Ning - students take on the roles of key players in a real situation.

Here's an interesting way to use Ning - students take on the roles of key players in a real situation.

"Based on the open source social networking script Elgg, we have added a whole host of plugins and enhancements that will hopefully make it the most feature packed and customisable place to start your own social network."

Great if you want to download YouTube

Latest report on emerging technologies in K-12 education over the next 1 to 5 years

The implicit assumption of these studies, and all interpretations of flow, is that self reports can adequately describe the content of flow. Therefore, no analysis is necessary or valuable regarding the linguistic content of such self-reports. Furthermore, there was implicitly no need to investigate how non conscious information may also parallel flow experiences, and how such information may be mediated by neurological (attentive alertness), somatic (relaxation), and perceptual (demand/skill match) representations that dynamically change in time.

allows only members to see content - might be useful for school uses of Wordpress