Academe Links April 5, 2007

Please note. You all will get a break from me tomorrow and perhaps Monday.

Some notions about the 'Net Gen learner'

http://ssdl.blogspot.com/

Second Life http://econtent.typepad.com/econtent/2007/04/creating_second.html

http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/geek-squad-invades/

The Flawed Metaphor of the Spellings Summit http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/04/05/chambliss

Riled Up Over Changed Grades

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/05/kean

To Students, Congress Tops ‘American Idol’

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/05/tufts

Stop Cyberbullying: A Look Back at Last Week http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/04/stop_cyberbullying_a_look_back.html

lab: realizing that theory isn't as useful as theorists hope http://clarkaldrich.blogspot.com/2007/03/lab.html

WikiEducator: Memoirs, myths, misrepresentations and the magic http://blog.worldcampus.psu.edu/index.php/2007/04/04/wikieducator/

innovation: does your boss have it? Why not?

http://clarkaldrich.blogspot.com/2007/03/innovation.html

Resource: Keyboard Shortcuts

http://www.websearchguide.ca/netblog/archives/005996.html

Resource: Parade of Games in Powerpoint

http://facstaff.uww.edu/jonesd/games/index.html

Help! My Brain is Overloaded!

http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2007/mar/Cognitive_load_theory.html

The State of the Live Web, April 2007

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html

The Benefits of Being and Economics Professor A (and not Z) ftp://repec.iza.org/RePEc/Discussionpaper/dp2673.pdf

R. C. Rybnikar

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