links for 2009-01-02
Posted by Sean FitzGerald on January 3, 2009
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Jokosher is a simple yet powerful multi-track studio. With it you can create and record music, podcasts and more, all from an integrated simple environment.
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SLOP is a tool that converts builds made into Second Life or OpenSim in a format that is compatible with either one of the worlds.
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Watch the world’s leading TV channels in the highest quality plus your favourite web channels, all in one free player.
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School for Tomorrow (SFT) is a private, nonprofit secondary school (grades 6-12) opening in September 2009 in Montgomery County, Maryland with a one-of-a-kind, cutting edge education model designed for the 21st century.
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As preparation for a workshop I am giving this fall I thought it would be interesting to collect together all the diagrams of PLEs I could find, as a compare and contrast sort of exercise. Dave Cormier.
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LMS’ speak the language of the current power structure in education: control, accountability, manageability. PLEs, in contrast, are concerned with individuals and personal learning – at least a partial return to ancient education models. Most discussions of PLEs address the individual learning opportunities they afford…but fail to move into a discussion of the reasons why they are still fringe tools. And will continue to be so until power relationships change.
