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If you’re having trouble downloading David’s keynote from k12Online, I got an okay to share this link to my upload of the video so you can download it here.

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Dear Teachers,

Please excuse my recent absence. This

has just been proposed (and, goodness help Her, accepted). So we’re talking about buying one of these

in Oregon next summer, as a summer vacation home between international school gigs evermore. And if we’re lucky, this

will follow in a year or two (a nice Korean-American blend, I hope with Her triple-eyelids).

That’s all assuming I make it through the Korean wedding planning.

Life’s funny. At 45, I thought my window for family had shut behind me. I also believed myself every time, over the past three or four years, that I repeated the mantra, “I love being single; I’ll never get married.”

I used this personal case in class today as a classic example of situational irony. But what can I say? A good heart, a good sense of humor (in English, Korean, and Japanese), and the ability to put up with this monomaniacal workaholic.

Call it Clay 2.0. Life won’t be the same. We get hitched next May.

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Marin Independent Journal - Marin educators creating the 21st century classroom

• 1:1 schools in Marin County to try to pull into a network.  Interesting comments about the “top-down” and “bottom-up” continuum in making integration happen.
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newteachergeekday

• Patrick Higgins‘ wiki for new teachers introduces:
  • Connective Writing
  • Social Bookmarking
  • Flat Classrooms
  • “Ten Essential Tools for Educators”
  • Resources

  A great professional develpment resource in the quest for classroom conversions.

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Flixn.com | Video Everywhere

• Thanks to Patrick Higgins (who thanks Will Richardson) for this find:  this might be just the peer feedback tool we’re looking for for the 1001 Tales writing workshop.  It requires a webcam, but otherwise is dead easy to embed–easier than Yackpack, and video added to boot.  (And check out the film debut of Patrick’s Audrey, who can’t be more than four moons old, on his demo.  Priceless, Patrick.)

  I’m seeing this as a way for students to give peer feedback by reading their flat classroom peers’ works aloud into their webcam, pausing for commentary all the while.  At a couple stages in the Flat World Tales, we had students podcast themselves reading their own works, then listen and reflect about what they heard.  Otherwise, no audio-video was used; instead, students only wrote their feedback on each other’s wiki page.  My students said this took them upwards of a half hour per story feedback.

  So Flixn might be faster, easier, and more effective–and more social.  Some of the student feedback expressed regret that they could not see or hear their flat classroom partners this time around.

  I’m really liking this….Chris Watson, are you listening? 

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Plotbot: Collaborative Screenwriting

• Very interesting.  Thanks to Jeff Wasserman for the tip.
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World Without Oil :: Document Your Life In The New Reality

• On online game meant to educate about the “habits of mind”–and action–needed to face the growing oil shortage as wisely as possible.
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Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch

• A media watchdog group, keeping an eye (especially) on the growing incursion of political marketing techniques into journalism. - post by cburell

Geoscience Australia: Query Nuclear Explosions Database

• Database with the time and place of every nuclear bomb test, per country, since 1945. Wonder who exploded more, the USA or USSR? Here’s where you can compare.
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toledoblade.com — Why did some troops target civilians but others did not?

• Vietnam vets discuss why they did or did not kill Vietnamese civilians in the war. Part of a powerful series of the Toledo Blade.
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Mickey Mouse drops the racist “N-bomb” in a 1932 comic

Key Issues: Nuclear Weapons: History:

• Excellent site with streaming audio of Cuban Missile Crisis discussions during the “13 Days” at the White House.
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