RSS Reader Market in Disarray, Continues to Decline - 0 views
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RSS reading is a very fragmented experience circa 2009. People can monitor news and information via Twitter, Facebook, start pages like Netvibes, their Firefox bookmarks, their OS, aggregators like Techmeme, and so on. Tell us in the comments how you currently read your RSS feeds and how often you check them in an RSS Reader - if indeed you still use one... Update: I should add that our news writers use a variety of RSS Readers daily.
What I've Learned from My PLN (August 22, 2009) - Teaching Village - 0 views
ITEC 2009 - PLN: A gardener's approach to professional learning - Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views
10 Greatest Open Source Software Of 2009 - 1 views
Full List - 50 Best Websites 2009 - TIME - 0 views
(2) #LL2009 - Twitter Search - 0 views
2009 Horizon Report - 0 views
Pew Internet & American Life Project - 0 views
A Conversation with Katie Titler Spanish Teacher Using Avatars and Cell Phones 11/4/20... - 0 views
Brains benefit from multilingualism - 0 views
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"Learning a language strictly as a separate subject in the curriculum does not work as effectively for a broad range of young people as compared to embedding second language learning into other subjects. Thinking about numbers, for example, does figure naturally in a lot of school learning as well as in real life outside the school, which supports learning and knowing mathematics. The same may not always be true of foreign languages," Marsh argues."
Inside Google Books: New Features on Google Books - 0 views
academhack » Blog Archive » Seriously Can We End This Debate Already - 0 views
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What you want from a secondary source is a good introduction to a concept, that is mostly reliable, up-to-date, entries for as many topics as possible, connections to where to go to learn more, and easy and ubiquitous (as possible) access. A secondary source is not an in depth analysis which upon reading one is suddenly an expert on said entry or topic, it’s not designed to be. It is just a good overview. No secondary source is going to be completely accurate, or engage in the level of detail and nuance which we want from students, or that is required to fully “know” about a subject.
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The issue is not that Wikipedia is or is not reliable and thus should be banned in academic environments, rather the issue is that Wikipedia is a secondary source and thus should not be treated as a primary one.
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Wikipedia has substantial advantages over any prior encyclopedia model.
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M.I.T. Lets Student Bloggers Post Without Censoring - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“I was blogging myself, almost every day, when I was in high school, and I read the M.I.T. blogs all the time,” said Jess Kim, a senior blogger. “For me they painted a picture of what life would be like here, and that was part of why I wanted to come.”
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M.I.T. chooses its bloggers through a contest, in which applicants submit samples of their writing. “The annual blogger selection is like the admissions office’s own running of the bulls,” said Dave McOwen, Mr. Jones’s successor in the admissions office, in his message inviting applications.
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“You want people who can communicate and who are going to be involved in different parts of campus life,” he said. “You want them to be positive, but it’s not mandatory.”
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