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The Wales-Wide Web | The beginning of the end for the industrial schooling system?:
Knowsley Council in Merseyside, has abolished the use of the word school to describe secondary education in the borough. It is taking the dramatic step of closing all of its eleven existing secondary schools by 2009. As part of a £150m government-backed rebuilding programme, they will reopen as seven state-of-the-art, round-the-clock, learning centre

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this may be a very good idea for wales and the western world. we've been talking for a long time about liberating the creativity of people, and properly done, this is the sort of system that could do that.

PoducateMe Guide | PoducateMe:

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this is a highly detailed guide to podcasting

Don’t forget your shovel. :: One World:
One World

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yes, this is a great educational video.... an excellent video for all purposes. it demonstrates, i think, some important points about networked production.

Please join us in a workshop on learning and research in Second Life on October 17, 2007 in Vancouver at Internet Research 8.0 (http:// wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=About_IR8.0)

Paper Deadline August 15th.

Second Life(R) is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab which has captured the attentions of researchers and teachers from around the world from a variety of disciplines.

This workshop aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a Learning and Research environment. It will bring 35 researchers together to collaborate, discuss and workshop diverse topics related to research and learning in Second Life. We will pursue a full-day schedule in which participants will discuss their work and interests on four different topics: learning in Second Life, integrated learning, the contributions of research to the community and ethical research methods. How can we better enable learning in this sphere? How can we better enable research?

As a highlight, Robin Linden will give a talk to the group, and members of Linden Lab will participate throughout the day.

I went to the bronx zoo yesterday, took a few pics.


red panda or firefox

red panda or firefox again

tiger (keep in mind there are more pictures of all of these)

parrot hiding and watching people

monkey playing with toy

and about 200 more.

oh and i shot some movie stuff, short, very short...

snow leopard

polar bear

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States

Interpretation in policy analysis conference <-- why i took the trip

I met up with my friend and colleague Frank Schaap and we had some nice pie, and some beer, and some dinner and chatted.

i stayed at my friend Todd's house for a while, and played with his cats.

I saw the Renee Descartes house

I took pictures of many churches inside and out:

st. nicolaskirk
black church...
oude kirk
new church
grote kirk haarlem

oh there are around 2000 pictures from museums including the pearson, the frans hals, the teylers, and house boat museums. there is even a few pictures of a windmill.

World Universities' ranking on the Web: top 3000 World Ranking:
omparable statistics on S&T offering valid, reliable and relevant information on the performance of R&D can be found throughout the Web, as many countries are developing their own observatories. Global scenarios involving universities are published regularly by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Academic Ranking of World Universities), and the Higher Education Supplement of The Times.

http://www.webometrics.info/top3000.asp
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hmm, vt is in the top 30 in the u.s. that's is somewhat interesting.

Zatte Vrienden.be | Docent entertaint leerlingen:

this is a hilarious video.... teaching reviews are like this.

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this is cool, cheap, and worth trying.