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On the Media had a great piece this week entitled, “Sex, Drugs, and Video Games” about the relationship between video games and violence. They say:
Lawrence Kutner has authored a new book suggesting violent video games do not create violent children.
As the parent of three young children and a Director of Technology at an all [...]

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Here we go — Just testing out the new version (0.7.1) of Flock. It’s pretty nice and the blogging features are amazing — I’m writing this in a pop up window in the browser — I can save it and then publish to my wordpress blog from the browser. Nice!

Hope everyone is good. [...]

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When I hear folks discussing how dangerous social networks and the Internet are I find myself asking these types of questions: How many predators are actually out there? How dangerous is it to be online? Sure there are dangers and I don’t want to discount them, but in the story, PRIME NUMBER from NPR’s [...]

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This is a response to the following thread: Faculty with personal blogs, web pages, MySpace pages, etc
Arvind and Jason and everyone else… thanks for the wonderful exchange.
My internal conflict right now is what personal and what is private. I was reading A Whole New Mind on the way to work this morning, I finished [...]

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A few weeks ago I signed up to be a Webcast Academy intern. Thanks to Jeff Lebow, Dave Cormier, Doug Symington and Konrad Dwojak, I can now run an Interactive Webcast.
Arvind Grover and I did our first Webcast today. We discussed our backgrounds, and what type of topics we would like to cover in [...]

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Last Thursday I participated in EdTechBrainstorm at EdTechTalk.com. It was a lot of fun to participate in this Skype conference and add to the conversation. This is a neat format where they stream audio and have a chat room to include folks who are just listening. They also podcast their shows [...]

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SOF: The Buddha in the World | Transcript of Radio Program | [Speaking of Faith® from American Public Media]
I’m Krista Tippett. Today, a provocative take on the modern world. I’ll speak with Indian journalist Pankaj Mishra. In an intellectual and personal adventure, Mishra pursued the history and meaning of the Buddha, not as a [...]

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Here’s a story called Epic 2014. I heard about it when the writer was interviewed on NPR’s On the Media (Interview). It’s a fictitious story about the next 9 years in media history. They writers hypothesize that ‘Media Wars’ could happen without any major news organizations involved.
The uses of the Internet are [...]

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Here’s a story called Epic 2014 that I heard about on NPR’s On the Media this weekend. It’s a fictitious story about the next 9 years in media history. The author’s story is pretty amazing. They hypothesize that ‘Media Wars’ could happen without any major news organizations involved. The uses of [...]

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