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Is it just me or is this scene reminiscent of our own education systems? From now on you’ll be following a carefully structured, ministry approved course. I can’t imagine why you’d need to use spells in my classroom; you’ll be learning in a secure, risk-free environment. What use is that when we’re going to be [...]

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Chris Beesley is a graphic designer/illustrator living in Fairfield, Conneticut. His post, Seeking balance in a self-imposed spotlight,  raises a question relevant to bloggers, although he writes specifically as a graphic designer. Here’s my big question; do I post more raw materials that haven’t been fully vetted yet, accepting that some may be real garbage [...]

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Can people ever be original again? And what kind of future do we have if we can copy and paste, download and remix almost everything but we get into trouble for it? I came across a very interesting documentary in a blog post on Brain Pickings. It’s 24 minutes long but well worth watching. a [...]

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Everybody’s talking about it: online behaviour. We’ve come around, finally and reluctantly, on the whole, to accepting that social media is part of our world, young people as well as adult. Even television shows and radio stations are tweeting and blogging – how more mainstream can you get? On the negative side, we also hear [...]

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Recently I came across this TED talk by co-founder of Getty Images, Jonathan Klein. Jonathan Klein talks about how images have the power to shed light on understanding, to transcend borders, religions, and to provoke us to take action. It’s a powerful talk using powerful images. Although we’ve used images as communication since the beginning of [...]

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Thanks to @ggrosseck for possibly ‘the first quantitative study on the entire Twittersphere’.

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As much as I enjoy writing blogs, I love reading them. There’s nothing more exciting than discovering a new blog – a new voice, source of ideas and information. Just today I noticed that Bright Ideas Blog – a blog many of us have at the top of their reading list – has kindly included [...]

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A very interesting message, worth listening to. Some very good reflections on The Thinking Stick. more about “Web 3.0 on Vimeo“, posted with vodpod I think it’s all about organising information using semantic web tools so that the cream rises to the top (as Jeff says), becoming managers of the glut of information which we [...]

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Photo by lutykuh on Flickr Readers may have noticed that my posts are becoming more scarce. Or you may not – you may have given up and dropped checking this blog. Sure, I’ve been reposting from my other blogs – in particular, currently from Through global lenses. But I’m struggling to write regular, disciplined posts [...]

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