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  • US moves on Cyberbullying

    I can only hope that while Harper is getting busy “naming 14 year old criminals” he remembers that there might be some role for the federal goverment (CRTC?) to suggest to the provinces that they might want to bring in something similar to this within their existing provincial curriculums – the cynic in me thinks……

  • YuuGuu – Online conferencing – free and cross platform

    In the increasingly popular field of online conferencing, another player has arrived – this one however leverages Google’s GTalk and GMail to handle some of the heavy lifting that is required. YuuGuu is free (with some ads according to their info page) and enables screen sharing, conferencing and remote support.

  • Two more online file ripping/converting services

    These two have likely been out for a while, but often you want to be able to have more than one choice when using the free version of these conversion sites to be able to get your files sooner. So, in addition to Zamzar, you might want to check out. First is Movavi, an ad…

  • MS + NYU = G4LI

    MS and NYU have teamed up to create the Games for Learning Institute. It looks like quite the collaboration to bring a scientific lens to the game learning debate. It will be lead by Ken Perlin and Jan Plass.

  • NYT – Libraries, Games and Reading

    The NYT has an interesting article that brushes the two sides of the “games can increase reading/literacy” idea that many authors like James Paul Gee advocate. The article looks at examples such as Haarsma’s Rings of Orbis that requires players to use knowledge gleaned from the books to be able to advance in the game…