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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Smell of Books

Learning Visions

Mark Oehlerts response to Tom Crawford on the Kindle reminded me of a New Yorker article from last month, in which Anthony Grafton concludes that paper books are an anthropological record of their times and of the people reading it. Great post, Cammy and Im completely with you on loving the physical feel of a good book.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Thousands of people at IBM are already doing it.

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Passively Multiplayer Online Game (PMOG) | Main | "New study examines how online games can teach business skills" (Red Herring) » June 28, 2007 Thousands of people at IBM are already doing it. o IBM has a MySpace-like social network calledBluePages.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Want RealPlayer without ads? Thank You BBC!

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Teachertube Test | Main | Encyclopedia Britannica for the iPhone » April 03, 2008 Want RealPlayer without ads? According to this article in the Washington Post, the BBC required Real to produce a version of its player without ads.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): What if "This is your brain on drugs".was a good thing?

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Web-based Replacements for MSFT Project | Main | Semi-Daily Quote/Lyric/Words of Others » March 25, 2008 What if "This is your brain on drugs".was Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): " Visual Thinking, Imagery, and the Brain" (Eide Neurolearning Blog)

Mark Oehlert

Their post mentions and links to a PDF of an article in press, entitled " What Brain Imaging Can Tell Us About Embodied Meaning ," by Marcel Just. I think Im going to go read the full article and then probably look at this again. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Lets go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now.

Mark Oehlert

So I was reading this post on Slashdot about a Chronicle of Higher Ed article on the growing piracy of textbooks. The Chronicle article quotes Edward McCoyd who heads up the Online Piracy Working Group of the Association of American Publishers, "It is troubling that there is a culture of infringement out there. Thats awesome.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Soapbox for the Day: Academic Journals like Field Methods, that dont support things like access to their content

Mark Oehlert

previous rants on this topic ) Until I get some explanations though, Im pretty well amazed at the academics involved in this scheme. Usually the "peers" who review articles, arent paid or theyre paid very little. Im feeling stupid here because I just dont freaking get it! Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us

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