http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/january08 Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2669&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Students at Adelphi University set up a mock Facebook profile for a professor, complete with some not-so-flattering details. katiebda Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:59:36 +0000 january08 story participation http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html?pagewanted=3&ei=5088&en=21ff00bccd4e9e91&ex=1357880400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss "Together, the neuroimaging findings corroborate Greene’s theory that our nonutilitarian intuitions come from the victory of an emotional impulse over a cost-benefit analysis." I wonder if some trust judgments are more emotional and others more rational and perhaps different parts of the brain are at work with each type? What situations lead to rational trust judgments vs. emotional ones? katiebda Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:58:16 +0000 january08 trust http://www.startribune.com/local/west/13549646.html Danny O'Leary, a senior who plays lacrosse, said his dean displayed four Facebook photos of O?Leary holding drinks and told him he was in "a bit of trouble." One photo shows him holding a can of Coors beer, another a shot of rum, he said. In yet another, O'Leary is pictured holding his friend?s 40-ounce container of beer. "I was told each picture was equal to a two-game suspension,'' he said. katiebda Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:49:59 +0000 january08 story privacy http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/us/10divorce.html?ex=1200632400&en=19991d74b6526e16&ei=5070&emc=eta1 Normally, Garrido v. Krasnansky, a divorce case playing out in Vermont family court, would be of little interest to anyone but the couple involved. But the court has ordered the husband to stop posting blog items about his wife and their crumbled marriage, possibly turning an ordinary divorce into a much broader battle over free speech on the Internet. katiebda Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:15:20 +0000 january08 free speech new frontier http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2646&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Bigthink is meant to be a YouTube for intellectuals. In addition to featuring academics, the site includes videos from politicians, artists, & business people. According to the NYT, the site was started by Peter Hopkins, a grad of Harvard. Hopkins hopes bigthink becomes popular among college students. Lawrence Summers, former president of Harvard, has invested tens of thousands of dollars. katiebda Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:10:33 +0000 january08 story youtube participation http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/fashion/06professions.html?ex=1357275600&en=e61888653907a9f0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Article talks about how status and autonomy - 2 traditional hallmarks of the professions - are increasingly found outside of the traditional professions. katiebda Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:34:26 +0000 january08 goodwork professions http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2637&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Facebook users, if pressed, will admit that not all the friends they list on the social-networking site are really friends. And that got Kevin Matulef, a computer-science graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thinking: What if people were open about who on their Facebook page was and was not a friend? He decided to act on the idea by creating a Facebook application, Enemybook, that allows users to tag people as “enemies.” katiebda Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:59:33 +0000 january08 facebook participation story