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≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, e-books, Education | ≅ 2 Comments
A quick heads up: Jeff Young has an informative piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education on what happened when one university delivered all textbooks to students electronically. It’s definitely worth a read. Meanwhile, on a related note, Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal’s tech guru, doesn’t like the new Kindle DX very much. Amazon [...]
≡ Category: Religion, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
The film above takes you inside the spiritual walls of Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, which hosts the Potala Palace, “the traditional winter home of the Dalai Lama and a pilgrimage destination for thousands of Buddhists.” The video runs 9+ minutes, and it’s one of many films produced by Explore.org, a web site supported by the Annenberg Foundation that combines [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Current Affairs | ≅ Leave a Comment
In case you missed Colbert’s trip to the war zone, here’s a funny clip. You can find the link to this video and more here.
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Philosophy, Politics | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick heads up: The BBC is featuring a series of lectures with Michael Sandel (Harvard Professor of Government) that will collectively talk about “the prospects of a new politics of the common good.” Sandel is a very popular professor at Harvard. Some 15,000 students have taken his courses over 30 years. In the first lecture, [...]
≡ Category: Books, e-books | ≅ 2 Comments
Earlier today, Seth Harwood wrote about a new challenge for writers — making sure books get distributed through as many digital reading platforms as possible. His thinking dovetails nicely with Wired’s list of the “Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature.” Here are some of the Wired items that mesh or flirt with what Harwood is talking [...]
≡ Category: Life, Psychology | ≅ Leave a Comment
Pico Iyer, the British-born essayist, has a nice reality check in today’s New York Times, and it’s now the most emailed article of the day. Here are a few key passages: “I’m not sure how much outward details or accomplishments ever really make us happy deep down. The millionaires I know seem desperate to become multimillionaires, [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Books, e-books | ≅ 4 Comments
A couple of weeks ago, crime writer Seth Harwood wrote a very popular piece here – How I Sold My Book by Giving It Away. Now he’s back and telling us about the new challenge of writing in the digital age. Take it away Seth (and check out his new book JACK WAKES UP )… [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Apple, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
Apple announced a new line of products this morning. Most will focus on the new, speedier iPhone. But what caught my eye is the Iceberg e-book reader that will bring 1,000,000 books to the iPhone. This will include, according to Engadget, 500 bestsellers, 50 major magazines and about 170 daily papers, plus textbooks by Houghton Mifflin, Harcourt and [...]
≡ Category: Education | ≅ Leave a Comment
Today, Amanda Coolidge (British Columbia Institute of Technology) joins us and talks about what’s happening with Open Educational Resources (OER) in Africa. Down the line, she’ll be blogging about OER in other parts of the world as well. Take it away Amanda. Over 500,000 Nigerian teachers need teacher training and you can bet this is [...]
≡ Category: Film, Literature, Theatre | ≅ 3 Comments
Thanks to PBS, you can watch online Ian McKellen starring in King Lear, one of Shakesepeare’s finest tragedies. McKellen performed the play first in England (2007), then on a worldwide tour, before filming the production for public television. You can watch it all right here, and if you want to follow the original text, you [...]
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