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abierto, media, philosophic-discourse, social
Apple, Corporations and Censorship
04.20.10 | Permalink | Comments

Every now and then, in our so called free world, we must talk about censorship. This is a story of media and the freedom of the press, which is put in danger, in the US and elsewhere -in fact, everywhere- not by one government, but by the very world-class companies who govern the distribution of [...]
abierto
Moodle: Frankenstein or Franken-steen?
03.11.10 | Permalink | Comments

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Well, I’m annoyed. {Link corrected, sorry… –>} Stephen Downes’ post at least is plain and short, and simply reports Donald Clark’s own ideas about Moodle: e-learning Frankenstein. Yes, I remember the line from Young Frankenstein, when Gene Wilder discusses Frankenstein’s pronunciation: Franken-steen or Frankenstein? But that does not come into this case. Exactly [...]
abierto, social
Project 10 to the 100
10.05.09 | Permalink | Comments

Project 10 to the 100: to vote until October 8th, 2009.
Vote Now. And May Those Who HelpThe Most Win.
media, music
Remixing
04.28.09 | Permalink | Comments

Girl Talk (via last.fm)

From PBS: Engage: Mixing it Up.
Remixing: see how Girl Talk (aka Gregg Gillis) mixes up songs by many musicians to obtain something completely new. Listen to Girl Talk. Then see the Open Source Cinema, and the film RiP: A Remix Manifesto, an Open Source movie itself, meaning everyone may edit, copy [...]
education, innovation, manifesto-elearn, web-20, web-edu
Opening Up Education: Webcast and Book
10.01.08 | Permalink | Comments

The Carnegie Commons – Community Event: Opening Up Education
Join the editors of Opening Up Education, Toru Iiyoshi and Vijay Kumar, and John Seely Brown, who wrote the book’s foreword, to talk about future possibilities for the open education movement and how it can improve the quality of education.
Tomorrow, October 2nd, at 2pm EDT.
The book itself [...]