Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04

  • I have many 'intellectual' friends who at once extol the virtues of the 'down-to-earth' and disparage them for not watching arthouse films. #
  • When is http://qa.moodle.net/ getting upgraded to #Moodle 2.0 preview 4? The changelog is promising but the Win DEV download is still on 3. #
  • With a new name, a new registration on wefollow.com #
  • RT @flipbooks: 10 Terrific Web Apps for #Teachers (Mashable) http://bit.ly/fl2YC #EdTech #
  • I was hiding in a foxhole the other day but they kicked me out. So now there are no atheists there. Just lots of Fox excrement. #religion #
  • Want to pronounce #Czech #Wimbledon semifinalists better than the BBC? Petra Kvitová http://ow.ly/26l68 Tomáš Berdych http://ow.ly/26l69 #
  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But how much say does the beholder have in what she does or is permitted to find beautiful? #cognition #
  • Patricia Rawlinson on Thinking Allowed: "we have the same problems with capitalism, that Russia had with communism" http://bit.ly/9PQsTP ? #
  • If "chihuahua-crusher" is a 512 page book on http://bit.ly/ak01Z5 how many pages would "shirt dewrinkler" or "forest killer" have? #
  • Just used http://bit.ly/know-your-followers to see when my followers are online #
  • Today is the 279th dieversary of David Crystal's funny and informative talk on anniversaries http://bit.ly/bKgbJj #
  • RT @mdrapp: Classroom learning is so last decade. Online is where it's at. #edmedia Yes, but we still need to think about spaces. #
  • Clay Shirky: "We got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals." http://bit.ly/csQ1CA Looks like the internet is ahead. #ted #
  • "showing just how ludicrous and unworkable a standards-setting body would be, we can get people to think…" http://bit.ly/9vMRtJ #langcops #
  • Well done Chrome: "help users with disabilities turn the web from an often unwelcoming place…" http://bit.ly/b1Qg9B #edtech #accessibility #
  • What would make Google Me make sense? Wave-like federation. http://bit.ly/br48iR #google #
  • @Qiqqa_Tips Finding Qiqqa very promising. Would like an integration with a bibliographic manager like #zotero or #mendeley #research #edtech in reply to Qiqqa_Tips #
  • RT @gsiemens: @gconole "what would learning look like if the whole design process was open to learners?" #edmedia Learning=same, teaching=? #
  • Definitely hype! RT @klconover: #edmedia Is there a difference between net generation to former students or Is it just hype? #
  • RT @gsiemens: @gconole "google wave is email, discussion, and collaboration on acid" 🙂 #edmedia So, why can't I just get into it? #edtech #
  • Great ? RT @librario868: How do you measure teacher performance in terms of #ISTE10 PD; what's the ripple effect & duration. #edtech #edchat #
  • Typical conflation of undesirable societal changes with language change: "Title inflation does violence to the language." http://ow.ly/25586 #
  • How many http://ted.com talks are essentially an exploration of a metaphor (or a metaphor-like conceptual framework)? #metaphor #TED #
  • I like the improvements in Foxit Reader 4.0 but IMO PDF X-Change Viewer is still the best free tool for annotations of student work. #edtech #
  • Kant "scepticism is a resting place for reason…but it can't be its permanent dwellingplace." http://bit.ly/9XKZv8 via http://bit.ly/afkyHK #
  • The last vestige: "Best To-Do List Manager: Paper" http://bit.ly/c8JIOI #productivity #lifehacker #

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