Beyond School

I just saw this photo on Edge — The Third Culture, my very favorite science and culture online magazine. The Cassini satellite snapped it of Saturn. Steven Pinker gives more background.

Notice the speck of light (inset upper left) between the rings?

Say hello to home. And say a word of thanks to hard science for Revealing to us its Wonders.

Just had to share the most sublime digital photo, and the most miraculous feat performed by man on earth, I think I’ve ever seen. I need to start supporting the scientists more.

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hoefler » Research 2.0

• Eric Hoefler’s wiki for “research 2.0″–I haven’t checked it out closely, but Patrick Higgins at Chalkdust plugs it, which says something.
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Militant ‘Mickey Mouse’ pulled off air - Yahoo! News

• Mickey Mouse preaches fundamentalist political agenda on children’s show.  Excellent supplement to “authority” and “education” themes of All Quiet on the Western Front, Animal Farm, and V for Vendetta.

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TalkShoe™ - Featured Demo Videos

• This seems the most promising web-based podcasting service I’ve seen yet.  Definitely worth checking out for recording conference calls.  Skype-friendly and, so far, free.
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Podcast Stations & Podcast Advertising :: Podango

• Another web-based podcasting site.  Free?
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BlogTalkRadio

• One possible web 2.0 alternative to Skype conference call restrictions.  Web-based conference call recording.  Don’t know if it’s free.
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CriticalThinking.org - Critical Thinking Development: A Stage Theory

• Interesting paradigm for scaffolding metacognition about critical thinking in the classroom.
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McREL: Mid-continent for Education and Learning, Content Knowledge Standards and Benchmark Database

• Good set of standards to guide the editors of the Broken World wiki.
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Blogger & Podcaster, April 2007

• Interesting “flippable page” online magazine–with “talking ads.”  Lots of web-based podcasting sites advertised there.  Worth a look.
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Main Page - Wikimedia Commons

• Wow.  This seems to rival Archive.org as a multimedia archive.
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Wikibooks:Image use policy - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

• And this is a good resource to teach the etiquette of image use on wikis and blogs.
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Wikibooks:Editing guideline - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

• This one’s essential for getting beyond individually authored pages to collaborative writing.  This will be interesting to watch unfold in the classroom.
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Help:Welcome, newcomers - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

• More for the wiki textbook editors.
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Help:How to start a book - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

• A good resource for the Broken World wiki textbook editors.
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XplanaZine: Fast-Track Development of High-Quality Online Courses

• From the site’s intro:

  The following approach represents a way to fast-track the development
  of online courses by using an integrative approach to develop unique,
  high-quality courses that reflect the core values and vision of the
  institution while bringing together media assets, supplemental subject
  matter experts, and a highly effective online instructional strategy.
  This article was first written in 2003, but in reviewing it, it seems
  to be remarkably helpful, particularly as institutions are faced with
  creating courses and course content for new learning management systems
  and technologies
  
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Behlendorf.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

• Edtechlive’s podcast interview with one of the creators of Apache. 
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PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

• Did I just buy a $50 php manual unnecessarily>  The php website offers an introductory tutorial and online manual–d’oh!!!
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Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops - New York Times

• Recipe for 1:1 initiative failure: buy PC’s instead of Macs; don’t train teachers and students; measure success by success on standardized state testing.
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Fascist America, in 10 easy steps | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

• Good warmer for World History unit and/or for Animal Farm or V for Vendetta?  By Naomi Wolf
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