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BlogHighEd.org Thursday March 11, 2010 |

The end of anonymity Laptop Bans Are a Terrible Idea Futures of the Internet 11 Free Tools for Social Media Optimization Social Marketing Compass Project Natal

Inttranews - Daily News Site for Linguists Thursday March 11, 2010 |

/img_t7o7QA9ou1fOQkfmsV42_0.jpgLondon, UK (openPR): Language Connect has completed the first in a planned series of interactive school workshops aimed at encouraging secondary school pupils to realise the benefits of language learning. Language Connect devised...

UK Web Focus openness | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

Last year i4i won an injunction preventing Microsoft from selling Word 2007 because of patent infringement. Microsoft, of course, appealed against this injunction – and, as described last night in the Guardian’s Technology blog , the...

Teaching High School Psychology OCD | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

On 02/15/2010, ABC's Nightline did a short (8:56) segment entitled "The Dirty Work of Keeping Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Check" by John Donvan and Steven Baker. The video clip and website, which can be found at http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/ocd-rec...

Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education Thursday March 11, 2010 |

Slowcoast - Soundslide - Paul Smith, Clothes designer My fave Twitter / Ross C Brown: If you didn't know already ... If you didn't know already, @mikecoulter and @ewanmcintosh are top blokes. Thanks for your help guys :-) Where goes the river? ...

abject learning Thursday March 11, 2010 |

Plastic Bag By Ramin Bahrani Short film by American director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog)...

Urban Word of the Day Thursday March 11, 2010 |

An airliner that flies between two high-tech cities. It is likely that the majority of the passengers will be nerds. I'm taking the Nerd Bird from Austin to San Jose.

OUPblog A-Featured | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

By Kirsty McHugh, OUP UK Geoff Coyle graduated in mining engineering from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London. He has worked underground in coal and copper mines, and qualified as a practical coal-face worker. The contraction of the coal...

Media Psychology Cafe Thursday March 11, 2010 |

Entrepreneurship is the ultimate exercise in positive psychology. Hello Friends 你好 There's a lot of buzz about entrepreneurship right now. This is especially obvious if you visit LinkedIn, Twitter, or cruise the Ning social networks. It is...

You Learn Something New Every Day Productivity | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

When I worked in an NGO environment, we didn't ever really notice how long it took to do things. We experimented very briefly with time sheets (about a month) and found that tricky and even a bit boring to note down how every 15 minutes was spent. We did do...

The Church of Rationality Elsewhere | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

I really should have written this post earlier, but just when it was about time to write it on Wednesday evening, I suddenly felt an irresistible urge to vomit like it was becoming illegal tomorrow. At first I thought I'd eaten something wrong, but the next...

PSFK Thursday March 11, 2010 |

Green pioneer and journalist Colin Beavan will be one of the … [visit site to read more] © Dan Gould for PSFK, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

Lingformant Language impairment | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

By looking at how the brain responds to different aspects of grammar, specifically nouns and verbs, researchers at the UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders are hoping to provide a better understanding of the nature of language disorders in...

Lingformant Origins of language | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

Research into the long calls of male Orangutans in Borneo has given scientists new insight into how these solitary apes communicate through dense jungle. An acoustic analysis of the calls, published today in Ethology , reveals that the calls not only serve to...

Lingformant Language and the brain | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

Your favourite song comes on the radio. You hum the tune; the lyrics remind you of someone you know. Is your brain processing the words and music separately or as one? It’s a hotly debated question that may finally have an answer. Full article: New...

InsideRIA Blogs | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

With the final day of of 360|Flex behind us, I give some short synopsis of the presentations I attended and some thoughts on the general trends in 360|Flex as a whole.

dougbelshaw.com/blog Education | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

Some people talk of ‘learning styles’ but I think that, really, we use each main type of style (kinaesthetic, visual, aural) depending on what it is we’re learning. In fact, as a teacher, I’ve observed this in the classroom. Those...

The English Blog Britain | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

A fifth Labour MP is under investigation by police over expenses claims, is the lead story for The Daily Telegraph. Full story >> VOCABULARY A probe into a situation is an enquiry or investigation designed to expose new facts, especially...

The English Blog News | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

Here's the CNN Student News for Thursday 11 March . Click on the links to see a transcript. Learn about a proposal that could change U.S. academic standards Hear what the Afghan government has planned for a high school in Marjah Find out how...

CogDogBlog Blog Pile | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Stéfan That little search field and button in WordPress has not changed in function one bit since i started with WordPress. Oh sure, you can pop words in there, and get list of results. That works. But it is really...

Learning with 'e's student support | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

In two previous posts this week I tried to identify some of the reasons why students fail to engage in collaborative online learning environments, and also tried to suggest some possible solutions to the problem of social loafing. I thought Dean Groom's...

Teaching College Math Conferences and Workshops | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

This weekend I’ll be in Chicago at ICTCM .  Here are my presentations and where you might be able to find me: Thursday, March 11: New Ideas for Online Resources (part of a short course) 1:30-2:15pm Friday, March 12: Wolfram Research Booth,...

Schools Matter Imagine Schools | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

A few days ago I predicted the Imagine Schools would be in the news again in roughly a week if they could keep up their three scandals in less than a month pace. Well, it's been two days and an Imagine-run school in Nevada is under investigation. ...

Always Learning Emotions | Thursday March 11, 2010 |

I found a fascinating article in Scientific American ; a study was done showing that when people feel helpless they become more superstitious: Feelings of control are essential for our well-being – we think clearer and make better decisions when we...