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Urgent personal finance advice
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on June 09, 2008
If I could only share one piece of personal finance advice to grads or to just about anyone, it would be this: Only borrow money to pay for things that increase in value. It's a short list: your business, your house and your education, mostly. Stocks if you're smarter than me. That's pretty much it. If you have credit card debt, you're in big trouble. Your bank account has a...
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Free Course at Hypnosis Motivation Institute
via Dedroidify by dedroidify on April 05, 2008
A free course with pdf and streaming video lessons on basic hypnosis with free certification too. This is great!The Hypnosis Motivation Institute, HMI, is a non-profit nationally accredited hypnosis training college and clinic of hypnotherapy that has been serving Southern California for more than 40 years. HMI was founded in 1968 by Dr. John Kappas. Dr. Kappas literally defined the profession...
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Eee PC could rock Microsoft if it got out of Geeksville
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on January 15, 2008
The Test Bed is reporting that Becta, the UK agency for schools IT, has recommended schools and other educational institutions to look at alternatives, including open source, before signing expensive contracts with Microsoft to upgrade to Vista or Office 2007. It estimates it would cost an average secondary school some £26,000 to up
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The Economist Debate on Social "Networking"
via apophenia by zephoria on January 15, 2008
The Economist is doing an "Oxford-style debate" on the following proposition: "Social networking technologies will bring large [positive] changes to educational methods, in and out of the classroom"Given that MySpace and Facebook are ubiquitous, can social networking be defined as the "collective pow
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Fraud Alert!
via Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy by Alec on January 10, 2008
This is bizarre.Our University is hosting Westcast, a teacher education conference, this year.However, someone has setup a fraudulent website titled “Westcast University” with direct pieces from our conference website and our U
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The Emperor Has No Clothes
via Harold Jarche : Strategies for online collaboration by Harold on January 04, 2008
For several years I’ve believed that corporatism is one of the primary systemic problems that we need to change in order to address our challenges of global warming, political instability, fundamentalism, poverty, education or environmental degradation. One of the more astute business blogs that I r
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Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools
via Slashdot by ScuttleMonkey on January 11, 2008
An anonymous reader writes "The British government's educational IT authority has issued a report advising schools in the country not to upgrade their classroom or office systems to Windows Vista or Office 2007. According to this InformationWeek story, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency says costs for Vista and Office 2007 'are significant and the benefits remain...
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Business Ethics at the Base of the Pyramid
via NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit by Rob Katz on January 14, 2008
Guest blogger Bill Kramer is principal of The Global Challenge Network, LLC, an executive education and training company. From 2001 through mid-2007, he worked on p
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Going fearlessly into the future
via LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News by Martin on January 15, 2008
This is how the new CIO at Xavier University describes his efforts to merge the library with the IT department. He scrapped traditional library and IT units in favor of one with librarians and techies working side by side. A Learning Commons will be erected to house the organization and serve as a center for various educational programs. Users will be able to get technical help, use multimed
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Google is White Bread for the Mind, Says Teacher
via Mashable! by Stan Schroeder on January 13, 2008
The story goes like this: professor Tara Brabazon, from the University of Brighton, is unhappy about their students taking the easy route and using Google and Wikipedia for their research. She calls this phenomenon “The University of Google”, saying that “The education world has pursued new technology wit
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