Monthly Archives: December 2011

delicious resources 12/23/2011

Great delicious resources in this pre-Xmas post! Happy browsing. Skitch – Annotate, edit and share your screenshots and images…fast. (Bought by Evernote) 74 Great Films To Watch On YouTube Not to be missed! Really great movies here, old and new. … Continue reading

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Copyright: We’ll Not Change the World –the Youngsters Will.

The other day, one guy produced a chronological-order version of Pulp Fiction. Everywhere, students enjoy elaborating parodies and remixes of movie segments. Animated images are created out of motion pictures to capture their essence in few photograms, by amateurs. Everybody … Continue reading

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Standardized Testing: What (Low) Scores Mean

An article on standardized testing (Revealed: The school board member who took standardized test, by Marion Brady) was published a few days ago on The Washington Post and raised my eyebrows, for it denounces a real scandal but, at the … Continue reading

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Programming Things to Talk

Supermechanical : Tableau physical email Imagine one common object from your physical close world communicating with you or other objects. Not a new idea: There has been talk about the Internet of Things for some time, but this time some … Continue reading

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“Copyright-infringing” downloads held legal in Switzerland: Go Swiss!

Swiss gov’t study: downloading leads to sales, so we’re keeping it legal This nice post by Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing reports on a Swiss government study which was recently used by the Swiss to keep holding legal any “copyright-infringing” download … Continue reading

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