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Classroom 2.0
New Jersey educator Will Richardson used tools like MySpace as a teaching tool for his high school students. Now he’s urging other high schools to use social networking sites, rather than just be afraid of them. Also: New York State Attorney General hopeful Mark Green; We take a look at the health impact of 9/11 in the next installment in our series What Have We Learned; and analysis of the President's speech about prosecuting terrorists.
President at Bay
Barbara Olshansky, deputy legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights
- the implications of President Bush's push for legislation dealing with prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
» Center for Constitutional Rights
Surveillance Acts
Emily Bazelon , contributing editor of Legal Affairs and a senior editor of Slate magazine
- analyzes the NSA surveillance program, George Bush's speech on detainees and other issues
Classroom 2.0
Will Richardson, former teacher at Hunterdon high school in Flemington, NJ. "Learner in Chief" at Connective Learning, author Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms (Corwin Press, 2006)
- why teachers should embrace social networking tools and other "web 2.0" technologies in the classroom
» Will Richardson's classroom web resource site, Weblogg-ed
» Washington Post article about Will Richardson
» Purchase Will Richardson's book at Amazon.com
What Have We Learned: Environmental Effects of 9/11
Lorna Thorpe, deputy commissioner, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Division of Epidemiology
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Dr. Jacqueline Moline, principal investigator of the WTC Monitoring & Treatment Program at Mt. Sinai;
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David M. Newman, hygienist, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health
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Fred Mogul, WNYC reporter
-discuss the public health effects of the 9/11 attacks
» abstract of the Mt. Sinai report
» David Newman’s February 2006 City Council testimony
» NYC Health Department
Green-ery
Mark Green, former public advocate and candidate for attorney general
- makes his pitch for your support
» Mark Green’s website
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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