Sean Sharp’s ITRT Blog

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NOVA | scienceNOW | Dark Matter | PBS
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts this excellent science show. watch, learn, enjoy!

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How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine
This article was good, short, readable online. Possibly some good links, too. I’m considering a Kindle and this makes me continue to consider. Good read.
Lazy Bastards: How we read online.
By Michael Agger
Posted Friday, June 13, 2008, at 1:00 PM ET
You’re probably going to read this.
It’s [...]

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Below is a checklist of questions about email, from Seth Godin. When I read it, I thought, “hmmm . . these are good reminders.” At least I think so, especially when email is the major way of communicating with colleagues. Enjoy!
Seth’s Blog: Email checklist
Email checklist
Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should [...]

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Teenagers and the Internet | Salon Life
Teenagers today read and write for fun; its part of their social lives. We need to start celebrating this unprecedented surge, incorporating it as an educational tool instead of meeting it with punishing pop quizzes and suspicion.
Good read.

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Youth Online 2007

Just The Facts About Online Youth Victimization
Researchers Present the Facts and Debunk Myths
Thursday, May 3, 2007
This is very good. check it out when you can–there’s an mp3 file and a ‘Real Video’ file. It attempts to separate out the myths from the facts and I like a good debunking of [...]

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Welcome to a worldwide learning network — OER Commons
This looks pretty cool. Open Lesson Plans . . .
Nice!

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THE MORE TIME PEOPLE SPEND USING THE INTERNET
THE INTERNET STUDY: More DetailWhat do users do on the Internet? Click images for larger view
We asked each of our 4000 respondents to select among a list of 17 common internet activities and tell us which they did or did not do. This is what we found:
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apophenia
I find myself increasingly uncomfortable with conversations about cyberbullying. I fear that by emphasizing cyber the term clouds whats really going on. Dont get me wrong - the internet, like all technologies before it, has altered the dynamics of bullying, but why didnt my generation of telebullying? Three-way calling allowed people to bully from [...]

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Stop Cyberbullying
This is a new social networking site from ning. This Friday is going to be a “stop cyberbullying” day, which is a decent thing. Check out the site!

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