Academe Links July 24, 2007

Boundary Characteristics of Game, Simulation, Drama & Role play Learning Environments http://elearningrandomwalk.blogspot.com/2007/07/boundary-characteristics-of-game.html

Waves of Innovation: From Open Source to Open Learning http://www.learningcircuits.org/2007/0707adkins.html

Turning the ivory tower into an open book http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20070721/JOURNALS21/Comment/comment/comment/6/6/11/

A shared learning environment?

http://eduspaces.net/impelgg/weblog/124472.html

Virginia Tech Tragedy Illustrated Power and Peril of Running a University Web Site During a Crisis http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/07/2007072405n.htm?rss

Bond-Rating Agency Says Increase in Applications May Not Be a Sign of a College's Popularity http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/07/2007072404n.htm?rss

Facing Pressure From Colleges, Senate Majority Leader Withdraws Original Amendment on File Sharing http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/07/2007072402n.htm?rss

Optimal Length of Copyright Term Solved: Now Watch the RIAA, MPAA, Disney, et al Squirm as they confront real numbers http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/2007/07/optimal-length-.html

Obese Girls Less Likely to Attend College, Research Shows http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/2007/07/sociology23.html

Moving Away From Social Security Numbers http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/24/idnumbers

Tool: PalBee

http://www.palbee.com/

The Geography of Facebook

http://blog.fortiusone.com/2007/07/18/the-geography-of-facebook/

New US bill to require college antipiracy policies http://b2e.nitle.org/index.php/2007/07/23/new_us_bill_to_require_college_antipirac

Self Publishing Tool Kit

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/self_publishing_tool_kit.php

Games and Learning

http://spotlight.macfound.org/main/entry/theme_games_learning2/

The Gender of the Brain

http://warrick.edublogs.org/2007/07/24/the-gender-of-the-brain/

SL: My Days as a Dude

http://cuttingedge-ucation.wetpaint.com/page/My+Days+as+a+Dude?t=anon

Debate: Keen vs. Weinberger

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118460229729267677.html

The Learning Trifecta - Learning to Be, Learning to Do, Learning to Know http://clarkaldrich.blogspot.com/2007/07/commentary-new-hierarchy-learning-to-be.html

Phishing for clicks in social cliques: shockingly easy http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070723-phishing-for-clicks-in-social-cliques-shockingly-easy.html

Tool: BigString E-mail

http://www.bigstring.com/mail/main.php

Resource: TiffCentral

http://tiffcentral.com/

Resource: Earth Times

http://www.earthtimes.org/

R. C. Rybnikar

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