Archive for the “Good Culture” Category
Posted on Friday, December 5, 2008 | Filed under: Academia, Geeky, Good Culture, Good Society, Videos
Tagged: education, elearning, The Networked Student, Videos
The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler’s high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros’ Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers will use it to help their colleagues, [...]
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Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 | Filed under: Academia, Bad Culture, Bad Society, Dirty Little Consumer, Equality & Justice, Feminism, Good Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Videos
Tagged: Academia, documentary, equality, Feminism, feminist theory, misogyny, sexism, trailer, Videos
Here’s a trailer for a new documentary by Thomas Keith, Generation M: Misogyny in Media & Culture.
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Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 | Filed under: Bad Culture, Equality & Justice, Feminism, Good Culture, Videos
Tagged: Bitch magazine, feminist, reading, Videos
They suck.
Way back when, almost ten years ago, I found Bitch Magazine sitting tucked behind women’s glossies on the top-most shelf of the bigbox bookstore. It was love at first page flip, finding a magazine that addressed real concerns (e.g., the challenges of working mothers vs the latest celeb diet) and whose politics where [...]
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Posted on Thursday, August 7, 2008 | Filed under: Geeky, Good Culture, Memes, Philosophy, Videos
Tagged: awesome, Internet, Kevin Kelly, philosophy of technology, social web, socialised computing, sociology of technology, TedTalks, The Next 5000 Days of the Web, Videos, Web
Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the Web, TED Talks, December 2007:
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Posted on Monday, May 5, 2008 | Filed under: Blogging, Domesticated, Equality & Justice, Feminism, Geeky, Good Culture, Good Society, Philosophy
Tagged: children, dooce, equality, Feminism, feminist, Heather B. Armstrong, mothering, parenting, raising, weblog, women, writing
Will you resent me for this website? Absolutely. And I have spent hours and days and months of my life considering this, weighing your resentment against the good that can come from being open and honest about what it’s like to be your mother, the good for you, the good for me, and the good [...]
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