BBC NEWS | Health | How tunes get stuck in your head Interesting read. What I want to know is why the songs that get stuck in my head are always songs that I don’t like. I had Tainted Love by Soft Cell stuck in my head for a significant part of my Grade 10 year. Lately, its been Bananaphone by Raffi which isn’t nearly so bad.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is now podcasting two of its broadcasts, and you can read all about it on the CBC podcasting page. Quirks and Quarks is a long-running weekly science show on CBC radio, and has been a favourite of mine for a long time. The show has been putting archives of each show online for quite sometime (including, I’m pleased to say, in Ogg Vorbis format). I’m glad to see that the RSS feed for Quirks and Quarks breaks each weeks show into segments, so that someone can choose which segments to listen to, if one does not want to enjoy the entire show. This is reason enough for every science teacher to set up a podcast harvester of some sort. Thanks to Tod Maffin for bringing this to everyone’s attention. Tod’s own column is also podcast by … Continue reading »

Looking for signs that the reformation is at hand? Look no further than Tod Maffin’s I Love Radio .org: Why Radio Will Change Forever: A Manifesto! And if you re-read his essay with the words education or school substituted for radio, you might start to see a few theses taking shape on the cathedral door! (And keep your eye on Tod’s blog)

Wow – if you want any proof that we are little ants laying down thought tracks that are part of an emergent whole, this is it. Robert Paterson’s post Going Home – Our Reformation has a lot of people talking about it (like Stephen and Rick and … a whole bunch of others). I hadn’t read it at the time, but I was thinking some of the same things out loud in yesterday’s stigmergicweb podcast. Apparently there is a very big and powerful idea we are all tuning into. Paterson’s post is the most coherent and eloquent expression I’ve seen of it so far. Here’s what he says is happening: Just as people at the end of the Middle Ages rediscovered the wisdom of the Classic world, so we are re-discovering the experience of tribal life. I don’t mean by … Continue reading »

Ideas and thoughts from an EdTech is a new blog (first post on Feb. 6, 2005) from an old EdCmm 802 buddy Dean Shareski. How many more feeds can I handle in my bloglines account! :^)