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  Blog Focus on Apple's Musical Purchase
  A Friday potpourri of tech news, including a possible musical Apple purchase and Google's new dictionary
  by tuffyr / on Dec 4, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “literacy”

• Local-food activist makes the farm-bike-sailboat connection

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 622
  Jan Lundberg moved to Portland a year ago because it seemed like the best place to pursue his intersecting passions for food security, peak oil, bicycles, and sailing. These passions will be coming to fruition later this month when the oil analyst’s brainchild, the Sail Transport Network , will launch into its ...
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• LG Wants Teens to "Give it a Ponder" Before Texting

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 467
  Its no secret that teens love to text and research conducted by LG found that teens & tweens send around 20,000 texts per second . Internal LG research also found that that many teens ( LG has dubbed the "tabloid teen") consider forwarding text-based gossip and Please Stop The Sexting ...
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• Gamers wanted

  
  Communications & Legal Studies — Authority: 135
  Students in the Game Design class have created 9 original videogames. They need play testers to help them find any last minute bugs and give feedback to improve the games. When: Thursday, 12/10/9, 1:30 to 3:00 Where: Park 273 Come play some games, give some feedback Posted in Communications Management &Design, ...
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• Testing For Teaching

  
  Screenwriting Blog — Authority: 128
  On Friday (December 11) I will be teaching a class of middle school students about how to find ideas and write great scenes. The students live in Maryland so I will be teaching the class over Skype. Its amazing to think how, because of advances in technology, this generation is able to not only learn about ...
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• The Falling Dollar

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  When we teach our students about exchange rates, its easy to draw scenarios showing how a falling currency helps exporters and hurts importers and a rising currency helps importers and hurts exporters.  But here is a very nicely done graphic courtesy of The New York Times . (HT to the folks at ChartPorn .) ...
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• Module V Ethics and Plagarism

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “The AHRG website has an abundance of information for a large and varied audience. For the purposes of this posting, I choose to focus on consumer health information and health literacy, which in my opinion go hand-in-hand. I have become very interested in the subject of health literacy and recently gave a lecture ...
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• Bissonet Plaza Elementary Handmade Tales Residency Day 2 – Tuesday, December 8, 2009

  
  The Story Connection Blog — Authority: 120
  12-8-09 Ms. Arnetts 3rd grade class creates winter wonder window! Friends: Today started out on a “bad foot.” A storm ravaged our area and left us with no electricity. Everyone was late getting ready because the alarms didn’t go off. Then, when I got in my car, it wouldn’t start. My brother to the rescue. ...
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• Information Literacy Practitioner of the Year 2010

  
  Information Literacy Weblog — Authority: 419
  There is a call for nominations for Information Literacy Practitioner of the Year 2010 (A Joint CSG IL, CONUL and LAI Award). Individuals or groups may self nominate or may be nominated by a colleague. The award is open to all working within the UK or Ireland. The closing date for nominations is the 31st January ...
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• Silver Right Quote of the Day

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 138
  "If you dont understand the language of money, and you dont have a bank account, youre unfortunately just an economic slave." John Hope Bryant on financial literacy and silver rights
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• These Revolutionary Times

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 622
  The language of revolution should be used as a last resort and against odds that can be beaten only with radical thought and action. It requires justification or, at the very least, explanation. read more
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• The White House: Promoting Transparency in Government

  
  Communications & Legal Studies — Authority: 135
  Today I watched a WH discussion online called, “Promoting Transparency in Government.” Here are the documents / resources: Open Government Initiative Open Government Directive (pdf) Open Government Progress Report to the American People (pdf) Data.gov more about “ Promoting Transparency in ...
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• Google teams with NYT and WP for the Living Story page

  
  Educational CyberPlayGround — Authority: 129
  [ECP Educational CyberPlayGround edu-cyberpg.com] NetHappenings simplify things for readers by grouping developing stories about a hot topic.Educational CyberPlayGround, Inc.™. go to the CyberPlayGround for complete article.
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• South Natomas School Gets New Library

  
  NATOMASBUZZ.COM THE Natomas News Blog — Authority: 133
  The Garden Valley Elementary celebrated the grand opening of its new school library this morning in South Natomas. Students, families, and staff at the school have waited a long time for a library. The campus was built without a library and teachers have been creative over the years in trying to bring books into ...
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• AMEE and AlertMe: Measuring a Home Worker’s Carbon Footprint

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 679
  The United Nations’ historic Climate Change Conference, the COP15 , hosted in Copenhagen ( read more coverage over on our sister site, Earth2Tech ) — has seen the usual political controversies, notably leaked emails from the UK Met Office. I suspect what the world’s citizens are looking for isn’t ...
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• Jared Diamond Done Drunk the Kool-Aid

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 622
  Jared Diamond seems to have missed one of the central observations of his own _Collapse_ - that when societies actually avert collapse, the tend to do so with strong levels of prohibition and regulation. That is, Japan didnt ask the gun manufacturers to self-regulate, they prohibited the use of guns entirely. The ...
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• Was Volatility in the Price of Oil a Cause of the 2008 Financial Crisis?

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 622
  A cause for the financial crisis of 2008 is described that differs from conventional wisdom. It is proposed that in the early 2000s, an increase in the volatility of oil took place...The oil shock of 2008, when price doubled over less than a year (peaking at ~ $140 a barrel), is shown not to be an isolated event. ...
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• The LOC and Chronicling America

  
  History Tech — Authority: 121
  The push by the Library of Congress to digitize primary documents continues. Together with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the LOC has posted the 1,000,000th newspaper page at its sweet Chronicling America site . Chronicling America’s charge is to enhance access to America’s historic newspapers ...
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• Highlights Only: The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Library Reference, Info Literacy and Subject Specialist Staff

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 664
  This is a fee-based report from Primary Research for $89.50. However, the summary/news release does contain some highlights. The study presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States & Canada use the virtual reference services, subject specialists and info literacy staff of their academic ...
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• Christmas Cards

  
  qualities - communities - literacies — Authority: 119
  I came home the other day to find a parcel from Heather Reisman in my mailbox. Ms. Reisman is President and CEO of the Coles - Indigo - Chapters bookstore chain. Shed sent me a lovely gift and a Christmas card. Apparently Ive spent enough of my income on books to show up on her radar. (Can a note from Becky ...
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• Want bad advice? Pop into your local bank branch.

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 131
  We felt that this story was worth reproducing in full, it is from today’s Independent , via their award winning Personal Finance editor Charlie Weston. This clearly lays it out in our opinion: getting advice in your local bank branch is perhaps the worst option available, and that puts the value of an independent ...
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