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Scott McLeod from Dangerously Irrelevant tagged me with this interesting meme, so here are the rules, followed by the last five educational podcasts I listened to and/or watched: Meme guidelines Choose five of your favorite education podcasts. Any kind of education podcast is okay – students, teachers, administrators, professors, etc. – feel free to pick [...]

…the USA is so free? More from Save the Internet dot com (and watch the comments for the corporate lobbyists’ responses – they’re apparently paid to find posts like this, hit reply, and leave a tossed salad of obfuscations, red herrings, and straw men. Logic and debate teachers, help yourself to this real-world example. I’d [...]

Way past bedtime, but it’s Chusok – Korean Thanksgiving holiday – and I have the week off. And I want to share this link to the prototype of the Project Global Cooling website, which we’ll migrate to its own URL next week, and permanently open up to global, student-created content for annual contributions. I share [...]

A message to all members of The Global Cooling Collective Visit The Global Cooling Collective This is Mr. Burell in Seoul. I just bought the projectglobalcooling.org web address (“domain”) from godaddy.com, and am going to teach any students – in any participating country – the process of creating and administering that website. (That site will [...]

[Update: Subscribe to del.icio.us "net neutrality" tag feed here.] Democracy without energy is Tyranny Lite. The irony is, we can now vote with our voices with the most volume in history, while expending the least energy – a single mouse-click and a few paragraphs on a keyboard – but by and large, we don’t find [...]

I’m passing this email from FreePress.net on to all of you in hopes you’ll do your little part to keep web 2.0 growing, instead of passively allow it to be crippled by the US telecommunications industry. Like public transportation’s murder by the auto industry in the first half of the 20th century, the telecommunications industry [...]

If you haven’t read Will’s so well-crafted first impressions of the enigma we call Shanghai, “Surreal Shanghai,” take a few minutes. I overcame my “big-blog shyness” to compulsively add a too-long comment of my own about it all, since my own return to Shanghai only affirmed what I’d been suspecting was only nostalgia, which is, [...]

Oof. 1.42 a.m., not through my first cup of coffee after sleeping off the return flight from the Learning 2.0 Conference in my old home and Favorite City in the World, Shanghai, and so probably ill-advised to attempt this post right now. But it’s back to class in 6 hours, and we all know how [...]

The only thing worth quitting is smoking. (I’m on day 4, by the way.) This project is not worth quitting. It’s growing in a really fun, easy, fascinating way. Here’s an update about developments on the planning Ning (the “Global Cooling Collective,” which is again now open for easy membership or lurking), in our school [...]