President Obama's Acceptance speech.

This Can't be read real well, but it is a visual representation of Pres. Obama's acceptance speech. Compare this with McCain's below. Very interesting that he must have mentioned President Clinton (Bill, rather than Hillary:) more than I would have guessed. What's the main idea?

John McCain's Republican Acceptance speech via Wordle.net

Wordle.net........... Try this with a class, a students, etc. Analyze historical speeches, analyze dialog, analyze an author's first few pages, primary source letters, etc.

ThinkBag

This link is to a wonderful resource for INQUIRY BASED LEARNING tools:
http://www.lea.co.nz/thethinkbag/index.asp

Kaplan's Slap on Education's Face

http://talent.kaplan.edu/Campaign.aspx

Here is a link to the short 30 second commercial now airing on major networks. How many administrator's will be challenged by this commercial? Probably not many. Of course, I prefer SUNY Albany to Kaplan, but the commercial does address what we have been talking about. (Please notice that the students are all drinking coffee, relaxing, ...No one has a book open, a penin their hands, etc. 'Life should be so easy.)

Take 60 seconds to listen...

Interesting Spin on Copyright Infringement -

"Content Tracking Service Tynt Scores $3.9 Million in Series A Funding
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by Leena Rao on March 2, 2009
Tynt, a start-up that allows publishers to monitor and track when users copy content from a web site, has secured $3.9 million in series A funding led by iNovia Capital, AVAC Ltd, along with angel investors.
Tynt’s product, Tracer, lets website publishers see what content is being copied and pasted off their sites. Each time a user copies content from a website and pastes it into an email, blog or website, Tracer automatically adds a URL link back to the original site’s content, helping to drive traffic back to the original site. Publishers can easily add the Tracer technology to the code of their site by inserting Tracer’s one line of java script in any site template. "
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The above was copied from a blog called Techcrunch.com follow this link to read the entire story: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/02/content-tracking-service-tynt-scores-39-million-in-series-a-funding/