Wreck and Salvage: Kafka
Web 2.0 in Plain English
This is from Common Craft, another low-tech high-tech animation team; they have similar videos on RSS, and Wikis as well, among other things.
Free Your Imagination
This is from a odd little website with a good heart called Free Your Imagination. This creature is so odd that I can’t help but suspect fraud, but its real. The goal of the site is to collect information, images, and video about “a few of the hundreds and hundreds of new species discovered since the year 2000.” The hope is that by doing so readers will understand the Earth “as a place still being explored,” and will find “the courage to conserve and protect the fragile, shrinking areas of habitat.” (Thanks to Rocketboom!)
EduSpaces
EduSpaces is a social network set up for those interested in all aspects of Education. EduSpaces is powered by the awesome Elgg, a white label social networking platform. For more information about Elgg check out the project site: http://elgg.org
from, “What is Eduspaces.”
I am not sure either, it’s a kind of blog of blogs, or a place where you can set up a blog if it is related to education. It seems to be very heavily international, and tag-clouded until the cows come home. I am not sure what I think of these thematic meta-blogs, but they are popping up all over.
I recently did a “show all posts” search at EduSpaces and came up with everything from Physics demonstrations to discussions of t-shirts, in at least three languages. I am not sure what t-shirts have to do with education, but maybe I am old fashioned. (Not that I wore a tie when I taught brick and mortar.)
I just checked again and the first entry today is about a pair of exclusive tennis shoes. Still, I did find this cool report on University Publishing In A Digital Age. I fret about insularity– already the defining characteristic of academia– but maybe this cross-pollination thing is a good idea after all.