Sites to See 09/22/2008
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by mkrill
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the video hosting site dedicated to education
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I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You
Clive Thompson – NYTimes.com
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“It’s like I can distantly read everyone’s mind,” Haley went on to say.
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It can also lead to more real-life contact, because when one member of Haley’s group decides to go out to a bar or see a band and Twitters about his plans, the others see it, and some decide to drop by — ad hoc, self-organizing socializing.
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ambient updates
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But it’s easy to tweet all the time, to post pictures of what I’m doing, to keep social relations up.” She paused for a second, before continuing: “Things like Twitter have actually given me a much bigger social circle. I know more about more people than ever before.”
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The rest are weak ties — maintained via technology.
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Remote acquaintances will be much more useful, because they’re farther afield, yet still socially intimate enough to want to help you out.
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If you’re reading daily updates from hundreds of people about whom they’re dating and whether they’re happy, it might, some critics worry, spread your emotional energy too thin, leaving less for true intimate relationships.
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“They can observe you, but it’s not the same as knowing you.”
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The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you’re feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act.
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In an age of awareness, perhaps the person you see most clearly is yourself.
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5min – Find the best how to, instructional and DIY video
5min is a place to find short video solutions for practical questions and a place for people to share their knowledge.
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Disrupting Class: Student-Centric Education Is the Future | Edutopia
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Test-prep services turn to video games
Kaplan, Princeton Review releasing game-based software to help students practice for the SAT.
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About Michael Moore’s SLACKER UPRISING
If you are not part of the “downloadable” generation, I am making a low-cost DVD of “Slacker Uprising” available at Amazon, Netflix and your local stores in October.
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If you are not part of the “downloadable” generation, I am making a low-cost DVD of “Slacker Uprising” available at Amazon, Netflix and your local stores in October.
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