@claraoshea @dmonp Clara, situation you described (1920s Berlin), is that empathy? Part of a projected identity? #mscidel
#mscidel Attended tutorial last night as alt Thandi OHare,female,dark skined.Felt self conscious,quiet,worried people could see up my skirt!
@dmonp @gallagher_msean #mscidel did you try sitting on the railing next to the trash? despondent! but did I feel it or feel it 4 Klara?
New Trier High School is consistently considered one of the best public high schools in the country. This documentary looks at different social groups at New Trier High School in Winnetka Illinois. It features interviews with more than 40 New Trier students.
An documentary about the Inter City Firm, a football (soccer) gang that fights with other football gangs before games.
Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt provides a 20-minute tour of the International Space Station, documenting the full 167 feet of the space station's pressurized modules. Barratts commentary describes to Mission Control in Houston how equipment and supplies are arranged and stored, and provides engineers with a detailed assessment of each module-to-module hatchway.
Kashmir. Once called paradise on Earth has been transformed into a place of violence and carnage. It is disputed territory between India and Pakistan. There is much controversy around this matter and this video details the whole truth regarding Kashmir. Visit www.IslamicVideos.net for more videos like this!
Aug 2004 What happens when those who've grown up on Hollywood war movies and graphic video games are sent to the frontline? "It's the ultimate rush -- you're going into the fight with a good song playing in the background," states one soldier. This is a war fought by the first playstation generation. As Rolling Stones journalist Evan Wright explains: "One thing about them is they kill very well in Iraq." Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
October 2009 Did Robert Mugabes security forces seize control of a lucrative diamond field by gunning down hundreds of miners? With shocking evidence now uncovered, Zimbabwes diamond trade faces suspension. "We were told here are the guns, sitting in the truck, do you want to stay?" says Andrew Cranswick, CEO of the mining company who owns the rights to mine diamonds in Marange. After his company was evicted, the Marange fields were opened up to the people and tens of thousands of Zimbabweans came to dig, paying the police a commission. Yet the police didnt always play fair - "$15 million worth of diamonds were confiscated", says one former miner and soon the police were replaced by Mugabes own military. "Mugabe needed a way to buy the loyalty of the army" says Ken Roth, "the military were ordered to kill". In the first week of November, helicopter gunships launched a massacre on the Marange diamond fields. Evidence has been collected of 200 deaths. Those who werent killed were raped or crippled. "They told us if we wanted to go home we had to sleep with the men", says one woman, "the soldiers watched and laughed". Next month, the Kimberley process, the international body charged with stopping trade in conflict diamonds, will decide whether Zimbabwe should be suspended. Yet with many Western governments involved in Zimbabwes diamond trade, a former delegate of the Kimberley process believes this deadly business may yet be protected. Produced by SBS Dateline, distributed by Journeyman Pictures.
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being. For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film. HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet. Yann Arthus-Bertrand HOME official website http://www.home-2009.com PPR is proud to support HOME http://www.ppr.com HOME is a carbon offset movie http://www.actioncarbone.org More information about the Planet http://www.goodplanet.info
edinburghmsc: via @hamacleod: Online distance learning in the US; Online education's great unknowns. http://tinyurl.com/yjgvju4
Where many education authorities continue to routinely block, filter and ban social networks not just for youngsters but for teaching and management staff, new research from Gartner (via Euan Semple) reveals yet more logic behind opening up networks and encouraging teachers, learners and managers to network online as well as at their twice-a-year in-service get-togethers:
"While a job may be regarded as an economic transaction, the human brain thinks of the workplace as a social system," she said. Social networking can make employees "feel valued, a part of a community, and earn the respect of peers."
Read more here. I therefore continue to be disheartened by the backward policies of regions such as Argyll and Bute, who admit that "social networking sites are blocked in all schools as policy... Staff are not able to maintain or access personal sites such as their own blogs or Twitter pages through the council's network." They want teachers to share practice through "all available means", but one can only assume they mean the telephone, one-to-one email or pigeon carrier. A shame really, since when I was a student at school there in the late eighties we were using Macs for desktop publishing and the authority area was a world leader in video conferencing for isolated community learning aeons before the rest of the world got the Skype collaboration bug. But, as they say, you're only as good as your last gig...
Three years ago the national education agency in Scotland and Don Ledingham, the then education chief in East Lothian, took the lead and paid me public cash to help amplify the groundbreaking, award-winning work with colleagues in East Lothian, who continue to reap the educational and managerial benefits of a more-or-less open network and promotion of sharing practice through blogging and Twitter amongst many platforms.
It is therefore becoming increasingly embarrassing to me that, three years on, most education authorities in Scotland continue to be ignorant of the possibilities, fearful of the occasional [human] mistake (and at a loss, it would seem, about what to do when someone does make such a human error).
Adding to the embarrassment is the apparent own-goal scored by me and my colleagues whose learnings are often adopted more enthusiastically in countries elsewhere around the globe while those leading education on our own doorstep put caution ahead of innovation. Our £35m national intranet has just added functionality of blogs and wikis, three years after I recommended they be the keystone 'learning diaries' of a personal profile. This is good, but it is slow.
What do I reckon could be done (only my tuppence worth, I add...) In a recent interview for Merlin John's new Innovators series I outline how I believe things could change:
Pic of phone [what you can use to collaborate in the meantime]
Thanks to Doug Belshaw's post for making me go back and fill in more detail on the above bullets.
@claraoshea @gallagher_msean #mscidel and rummaging in the trash for food left me a bit empty.
@claraoshea @gallagher_msean #mscidel back from Berlin...definitely not anything like being a half-elf or assuming a 1920's Berliner ID
tonight's final tutorial for IDEL, week 5 in Second Life is at 19.00 BST (Edinburgh time) at Holyrood Park - see you there! #mscidel
@claraoshea Clothes/rules/avatars/artifacts are all part of a roadmap in SL. Indicating preferred behavior but not demanding it? #mscidel
@Comcultgirl Agreed. In SL, there is some resistance to willingly adapt to norms of community. Lack of presence? Not sure. #mscidel
#mscidel I even changed my language but people didn't know/want to play along - obviously don't know rules yet.
#mscidel fascinating stuff about culture in SL and having to dress certain way. Doing some medieval role play at moment.
@gallagher_msean maybe the rules and clothes are the SL version of Lonely Planet? Isn't RL dependent on objects/people too? #mscidel
@claraoshea Like the tourism in SL idea. We are all sort of tourists there, unsure how to proceed with no Lonely Planet. #mscidel
p.s. I went to Berlin 1920s and wore the suit as a Japanese female both abiding by and transgressing the code. felt v. naughty! :) #mscidel
