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In the summer of 1998, over two frantic weeks in July, I wrote an essay titled The Future of Online Learning. (Downes, 1998) At the time, I was working as a distance education and new media design specialist at Assiniboine Community College, and I wrote the essay to defend the work I was doing at the time. “We want a plan,” said my managers, and so I outlined the future as I thought it would – and should – unfold.

http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/11/future-of-onl... 

Though my Dad is a clever chap - an old school Maker - he never had the chance at a higher education and as a consequence would force me to watch historical and educational shows as a kid. One of these were the televised lectures of Edward de Bono, where I first heard learned about mind maps and what are now commonly considered as ‘mind hacks.’

http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/11/10/mindjet-and-the... 

The option to find playlists is back at YouTube. Playlists are a great way to group related videos which can be later played one after another.

YouTube shows three popular videos from each playlist and it lets you restrict the results to a certain category, like Education, Music or Sports.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/11/find-youtub... 

I really enjoyed the discussion and feedback from my last post. I love that dolphin story, and after posting it here I've been telling it more often when I speak and people really seem to like it.

We are doing a Webinar together next week, and as a follow-up to my thoughts about Web 2.0 and education, I want to talk a little in this post on the uses of social networking in education, and to give some perspective on why I am so "bullish" on the topic.

http://www.stevehargadon.com/2008/11/thoughts-on-soc... 

It was exactly two years ago at the EDUCAUSE conference that we first announced our free Google Apps offering for educational institutions. We've kept pretty busy in that time, working closely with thousands of schools to reach 2.5 million students, staff, and faculty actively using Google Apps on campuses across the globe. As part of this mission, we also recently drove our eco-friendly bus (think bio-fuel and solar panels) to universities across the country to hear directly from people using Google Apps. Here's what some of them had to say:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/latest-on-goo... 

This little boy knows how to get what he wants...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us5HKZgEyBQ 

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Identifying a Conduct Disorders is very difficult. Improper and inaccurate diagnosis has terrible long lasting effects, often as negative as the conduct disorder itself. Here are some tips on how our family deals with this problem.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1059997/ide... 

This site is all about math. Great for elementary, junior and high school kids.

http://www.numbernut.com/ 

We all complain about the high price of oil: businessmen worry about the rising cost of petroleum-based raw materials, and politicians fret about the geo-political situations in oil rich countries and the rest of us pay through the nose whenever we fill up at the pump (yes, it has come down a bit, but only after such a huge run-up).But what do we really know about oil? Do you know where petroleum came from? (hint: not dinosaurs). Or that during the early days of Standard Oil, gasoline was so useless that it was dumped in rivers?

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/06/10-things-you-di... 

My sister and I have been asked to find and post some drawings that show what each of the letters of the alphabet look like in American Sign Language. This is not something we had ever thought about doing. We are looking all over the internet to find examples of American Sign Language and will post them on several web pages. Probably we will put a minimum of 6 letters per page.

http://hubpages.com/hub/FREE-American-Sign-Language-...