December 2009
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September 2009
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TFTF 117: Back to School Special! 1-(973) 404-0606
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Voice Mail: 1-(973) 404-0606 or email TeachingfortheFuture@gmail.com
Reading Rainbow goes off the Air from The New York Times, NPR, Neatorama, and thekeri If you don’t remember children’s television in the 1980’s, don’t worry because you didn’t miss much. I’m as nostalgic as the next nerd, but kids of my generation were stuck watching a lot of...
August 2009
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TFTF 116: Comment Line 1-(973) 404-0606
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Voice Mail: 1-(973) 404-0606 or email TeachingfortheFuture@gmail.com
Facebook acquires FriendFeed from the San Francisco Chronical
College textbooks available as iPhone download from the San Francisco Chronical
No More Pencils, No More Facebooks from the ABA Journal
Herd Mentality To track Internet censorship, a new tool relies on the power of numbers from Harvard Law Bulletin
Huffington Post: Segregation and Friends →
“The fact that brand management rules broadcast media — particularly at Fox — leads me to question whether the segregationist flavor of Fox’s morning could possibly be accidental. Is it possible that nobody at Fox had an inkling about Kilmeade’s belief in racial purity prior to his blurting it out on air? They had to know. A man who gleefully turns to the camera...
Company Awarded "The Patent For Podcasting" →
WIRED: The Creator of Facebook's Most Annoying App... →
Cheerleader sues school, coach after illicit... →
“In what may be the latest example, a suit was filed in Mississippi that alleges a school official—more specifically a teacher acting in her capacity as a cheerleading coach—demanded that members of her squad hand over their Facebook login information. According to the suit, the teacher used it to access a student’s account, which included a heated discussion of some of the...
Ars Technica: City libraries shut out of broadband... →
“The first round of stimulus grants “in effect de-prioritizes libraries and discourages them from applying for funding,” complains the American Library Association in a letter sent to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. “The ability of our libraries to meet community needs is in jeopardy—especially when library use has heavily increased across...
Autism Speaks: buy your tickets now!
soupsoup:
katiebakes:
youngmanhattanite:
Just got my ticket for the Autism Speaks to Young Professionals party on Thursday August 6th at the New York Stock Exchange. KB is on the event committee. We hope you can make it.
YAY! Everyone go buy your ticket. There will be no sales at the door due to security, so you need to be in the system by midnight on August 5.
It’s going to be great, and...
A Rorschach Cheat Sheet on Wikipedia? →
July 2009
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Free: a great book, but it’s missing the truly... →
I really love Cory’s insights on Chris Anderson’s Free because of his years of experience giving away his own content. Cory Doctorow was also mentioned in the unabridged audiobook.
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TFTF 115: Facebook Photo Ads? It's Complicated. -...
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If you have checked facebook status you might have seen something like “Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission.” and might end with “Help your friends…cut and paste this into your status.” Is this true? Would Facebook let their advertiser’s use user’s photos?
(Thank you xkcd!!) There...
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Teaching for the Future 114: Free, The Future of a...
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In today’s podcast we are going to talk about some confidential Twitter memos that were leaked to the web, how the Guardian newspaper was able to leverage Twitter for better converstaions, and I’ll review and discuss Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price.
*Twitter’s confidential memos on TechCrunch
Reblogged from soupsoup:
The...
Careful with Those Shortened Links →
“If you want to be safe, therefore, only click on shortened links if you trust who created them. If you must or want click on a link but don’t know if it is legitimate, use a URL unshortening tool.”
Twitter's confidential memos on TechCrunch →
soupsoup:
The documents include employment agreements, calendars of the founders, new employee interview schedules, phone logs and bills, alarm settings, a financial forecast, a pitch for a Twitter TV show, confidentiality agreements with companies such as AOL, Dell, Ericsson, and Nokia, a list of employee dietary restrictions, credit card numbers, Paypal and Gmail screen shots, and much more.
How We Invest in Our People - Education! →
chrbutler:
I just saw this post from Matt at the 37 Signals blog about the benefit of “playtime” on innovation in the workplace. It’s a brief thought but a very important one. Matt pulls a quote from Jim Coudal that is right on:
Most of the smart, creative, successful people I know spend a good deal of time looking for inspiration, tracking down ideas and doing research. We do all those things...
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Teaching for the Future 113
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*The Day Facebook Changed: Messages to Become Public by Default
From NYTimes.com:
“Facebook messages are about to be publicly visible. A whole lot of people are going to hate it. When ex-lovers, bosses, moms, stalkers, cops, creeps and others find out what people have been posting on Facebook - the reprimand that “well, you could have changed your default setting” is...
Maine negotiates to provide MacBooks to all 7–12... →
The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies →
I used a composing stick like this when I was in college in 2003. I was taking a type setting printing class.
Never Forget
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Teaching for the Future 112
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* Nintendo sneaks out new school edition DS: DS Classroom will be teacher’s favourite little helper
“The Nintendo DS Classroom <original pressrelease in Japanese> features no new hardware, but instead consists of a package of...
“Why, it’s enough to make the technologically paranoid imagine that Facebook’s...”
– Facebook: ‘Why not give your ex another shot?’ - Technotica- msnbc.com (via girloffscript)
Virtual Box →
DaveLaMorte: Has anyone else had trouble with Sugar on a Stick? http://teachingforthefuture.com/post/131818302/sugar-is-sweet-ars-technica #linux #sugar # (99)
pbhanney: @DaveLaMorte I actually have Sugar running in Virtual Box without any problems.
DaveLaMorte: @pbhanney WHAT’S VIRTUAL BOX?!? TELL ME MORE?!?! (sorry I’m shouting to honor Billy Mays)
pbhanney: @DaveLaMorte...
The Day Facebook Changed: Messages to Become... →
From thekeri
Microsoft Joins Twitter! →
This is definitly not news by anysense, but I still think it is funny. Thanks to Russell John!
Slate: Does Plastic Art Last Forever? Not even... →
As Plants Close, Teenagers Focus More on College →
“They would get a good-paying job at the General Motors factory or at one of the Delphi auto parts plants, get married and start families.
But the deep recession and the downsizing of American manufacturing have bulldozed those plans, leaving many of these young people confused and rudderless, with some contemplating a path that might be new to their families: college.” from...
Rubber Room: documentary about New York teacher... →
from boingboing.net