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Tweets of the Week – February 27

Dan Colman — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:42:32 +0000

More cultural goodness from our Twitter stream this week. Find us on Twitter here. On Facebook here.

RT @palafo: RT @mathewi: The Big Picture has some stunning images up of the aftermath of the earthquake in Chile http://bit.ly/aNv8RV
RT @kim: The Office — Ricky Gervais’ Original British Version Now on @hulu | http://bit.ly/dxDM1o *good stuff #LoL
What a combo. RT @kim: Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” (via @JahFurry @Agent_M) http://bit.ly/aL4i8F
RT @AmandaFenton: Thanks to Seth Godin for sharing this awesome poetry video. (Read the touching story behind it on Youtube) http://bit.ly/cUcFDc
RT @dylanschenker: Ha! What if David Lynch directed your favorite movie? http://bit.ly/dl7q5f (via @Cinematical)
RT @palafo: Amazon v. Apple war over publishing is a hot one – http://nyti.ms/9CD70W
alleyinsider eTextbooks Could Finally End The Great College Bookstore Extortion Scheme http://bit.ly/cRbGOG
BoingBoingYouTube will not block Amy Greenfield’s video art http://bit.ly/dvAYJV
TEDxNYED will stream talks live on March 6th. Speakers = @lessig, @henryjenkins, @jeffjarvis http://tedxnyed.com
@NYTimesLearning: Dave Eggers : If you started a newspaper from scratch today, what might it look like?. http://is.gd/99F8Z
RT @philosophybites: Johnny Depp to play Simone de Beauvoir’s US lover in a new movie! http://tinyurl.com/y9omzy2
RT @TED_TALKS: Pawan Sinha on how brains learn to see http://bit.ly/ad9gev
RT @thebookslut: Howard Brookner’s doc “William Burroughs: The Movie” is now online: http://is.gd/9a6aj
How to Ditch Cable and Watch My TV Shows and Movies Online: http://bit.ly/9XmOMK
RT @brainpicker: 400 of the greatest 1000 films of all time, a meta-analysis list aggregated from many other such lists http://ow.ly/1aVDk
RT @maudnewton: Thousands of authors, including Pynchon, have opted out of the Google Books settlement: http://bit.ly/9BHcHl
65 million years ago, birds gorged until they became too fat to fly. Hence the ostrich. http://bit.ly/cFGMjB via @Richard_Dawkins
John Yoo (Berkeley law prof and former Bush administration attorney) had a tough interview on @KQED today: http://bit.ly/99Q1li
timeshighered This could give a whole new meaning to academics being buried in their books…http://bookalicio.us/tag/william-warren/

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Hyperspace to Berlin, Watch Metropolis Live

Dan Colman — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:56:06 +0000

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Teaching Company’s Top 75 Courses Discounted Up to 70% This Weekend

Dan Colman — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:16:02 +0000

A quick weekend fyi: The Teaching Company, which provides university courses for lifelong learners like you, is running another sale this weekend. This one lasts until Sunday night and lets you get sharp discounts on their 75 most popular courses, which you can buy in multiple formats – DVD, CD, MP3, etc. (I typically go for the cheaper and more portable MP3 format.) If you’re starting to think about holiday presents, this could be a good place to start. Note: the courses are all priced differently. Be sure to sort through the catalogue and look for the ones that are particularly well priced.

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75% Off Teaching Company Courses This Weekend

Dan Colman — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:40:57 +0000

A quick fyi, The Teaching Company, which provides university courses for lifelong learners like you, is running a big sale until Sunday night. In a nutshell, the sale gives you a 75% discount on all audio downloads of Teaching Company courses. As you know, I am a big advocate of the open course movement. But I’m also a fan of Teaching Company products. They feature excellent professors lecturing on important subjects, and the courses are always well produced. Browse the catalogue, and if you find a course that you like, then select the “audio download” version of the course to take advantage of 75% discount. You can start checking things out here. Note: the courses are all priced differently. Be sure to sort through the catalogue and look for the ones that are particularly well priced.

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We Are as Gods

Dan Colman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:46:06 +0000

Between 1968 and 1972, Stewart Brand published The Whole Earth Catalog. For Steve Jobs, it was a “Bible” of his generation, a kind of Google 35 years before Google came along (see the excellent commencement speech where Jobs makes these comments.) More recently, Brand founded The Long Now Foundation, which is all about cultivating “slower/better” thinking instead of the “faster/cheaper” mindset that dominates our day. (You can get The Long Now podcast here: iTunes – Feed - Web Site. It’s also in our Ideas & Culture Audio Collection.) Brand is good at looking thoughtfully into the future, and above he takes a long-range view on our global climate problems. The upshot is that “we are as gods” and we had better get good at it. If you watch, you’ll see what I’m talking about. This video originally comes from the EDGE.org.

Related Content:

The Whole Earth Catalog Now Online

Better Thinking Through Podcasts

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Stanford Online Writing Courses – The Fall Lineup

Dan Colman — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:19:20 +0000

A quick fyi: On Monday morning, Stanford Continuing Studies opens up registration for its fall lineup of online writing courses. Offered in partnership with the Stanford Creative Writing Program (one of the most distinguished writing programs in the country), these online courses give beginning and advanced writers, no matter where they live, the chance to refine their craft with gifted writing instructors. As you will see, there are a couple of courses offered in conjunction with The New York Times. The idea here is that you’ll learn writing from a Stanford writing instructor and then have your work reviewed by a New York Times book critic. Quite a perk. There’s also a course being taught by Seth Harwood, a crime fiction writer who also contributes to OC. Some of these courses sell out quickly. Registration starts Monday morning, 8:30 am California time. For more information, click here, or separately check out the FAQ and the testimonials.

Caveat emptor: These classes are not free, and I helped set them up. So while I wholeheartedly believe in these courses, you can take my views with a grain of salt.

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Stanford Online Writing Courses – The Summer Lineup

Dan Colman — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:57:33 +0000

A quick fyi: On Monday morning, Stanford Continuing Studies opens up registration for its summer lineup of online writing courses. Offered in partnership with the Stanford Creative Writing Program (one of the most distinguished writing programs in the country), these online courses give beginning and advanced writers, no matter where they live, the chance to refine their craft with gifted writing instructors. As you will see, there are a couple of courses offered in conjunction with The New York Times. The idea here is that you’ll learn writing from a Stanford writing instructor and then get your work reviewed by a New York Times book critic. Quite a perk. And the courses sell out quickly. For more information, click here, or separately check out the FAQ and the testimonials.

Caveat emptor: These classes are not free, and I helped set them up. So while I wholeheartedly believe in these courses, you can take my views with a grain of salt.

Stanford Online Writing Courses – The Summer Lineup is a post from: Open Culture. Visit us at www.openculture.com

Twitter in the University Classroom

Dan Colman — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:39:41 +0000

From The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Wired Campus” Blog:

“Cole W. Camplese, director of education-technology services at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, prefers to teach in classrooms with two screens — one to project his slides, and another to project a Twitter stream of notes from students. He knows he is inviting distraction — after all, he’s essentially asking students to pass notes during class. But he argues that the additional layer of communication will make for richer class discussions…

Once students warmed to the idea that their professors actually wanted them to chat during class, students begin floating ideas or posting links to related materials, the professor says. In some cases, a shy student would type an observation or question on Twitter, and others in the class would respond with notes encouraging the student to raise the topic out loud. Other times, one of the professors would see a link posted by a student and stop class to discuss it.

Get the full story here, and feel free to tell us about other educational uses of Twitter. Just add them to the comments below. Lastly, you can find us on Twitter here.

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Download New Bob Dylan (Free for the Next 24 Hours)

Dan Colman — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:06:47 +0000

A heads up from Stephen:

Free mp3 of Behind Here Lies Nothin’ from Dylan’s new album available at bobdylan.com until 5.00 a.m. tomorrow (Time zone?) Very good it sounds too. Shades of Ry Cooder. Wishful thinking maybe…

Thanks SG

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Stanford Online Writing Courses – The Spring Lineup

Dan Colman — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:03:50 +0000

A quick fyi: This morning, Stanford Continuing Studies opened up registration for its spring lineup of online writing courses. Offered in partnership with the Stanford Creative Writing Program (one of the most distinguished writing programs in the country), these online courses give beginning and advanced writers, no matter where they live, the chance to refine their craft with gifted writing instructors.

As you will see, there are a couple of courses offered in conjunction with The New York Times. The idea here is that you’ll learn writing from a Stanford writing instructor and then get your work reviewed by a Times book critic. Quite a perk, I must say.

For more information, click here, or separately check out the FAQ.

Caveat emptor: These classes are not free, and I helped set them up. So while I wholeheartedly believe in these courses, you can take my views with a grain of salt.

Stanford Online Writing Courses – The Spring Lineup is a post from: Open Culture. Visit us at www.openculture.com