The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against social networking – Mark Bauerlein – Google Books

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The Digital Divide: Arguments for … – Mark Bauerlein – Google Books.

Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and human progress. But others are deeply concerned by the eroding of civility online, declining reading habits, withering attention spans, and the treacherous effects of 24/7 peer pressure on our young.

Expocase 2011 Part 02 Jasper Visser on Vimeo

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Expocase 2011 Part 02 Jasper Visser on Vimeo on Vimeo

An exhibition for exhibition-makers. A museum without a house. A house full of mountains. Four universities with a lot of boxes and eight exhibitors with a lot more ideas. For the second time, the EXPOCASE format extends beyond conventional constraints.

via Expocase 2011 Part 02 Jasper Visser on Vimeo.

Screening Shorts

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Screening Shorts.

Screening Shorts is a major new resource developed by Creative Scotland and Education Scotland to help teachers deliver moving image education (MIE).

The use of moving image as a non-traditional literacy text across Curriculum for Excellence offers engaging and exciting opportunities to get learners speaking, listening, reading, writing and creating. Short films are ideal as they are complete, easily accessible and good for multiple viewing. On this website, you will find a collection of superb downloadable films (fiction, animation and factual) suitable for primary and secondary school audiences.

Jean-Luc Godard Meets Woody Allen in 26 Minute Film – Open Culture

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Meetin’ WA: Jean-Luc Godard Meets Woody Allen in 26 Minute Film

in Film | December 3rd, 2011

The great French New Wave director, Jean-Luc Godard, turns 81 years old today. And Woody Allen, the legendary comedic filmmaker, turned 76 just two days ago. So what could be more perfect than to serve up Godard’s 1986 short film Meetin’ WA? What you get is Godard, one of the driving forces behind La Nouvelle Vague, in conversation with Woody Allen. Godard’s trademark approach to filmmaking, the expected dose of Woody Allen neuroses – they’re all there, packed into 26 minutes.

The Public Catalogue Foundation

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The Public Catalogue Foundation.

The UK’s Oil Painting Collection

The United Kingdom holds in its galleries and civic buildings arguably the greatest publicly owned collection of oil paintings in the world. 200,000 publicly owned oil paintings are held in institutions ranging from museums large and small to town halls, universities, hospitals and even fire stations.

However, four in five of these paintings are not on view. Whilst many galleries make strenuous efforts to display their collections, many paintings across the country are held in storage, usually because there are insufficient funds and space to show them. Furthermore, very few galleries have created a complete photographic record of their paintings, let alone a comprehensive illustrated catalogue of their collections. In short, what is publicly owned is not publicly accessible.

via The Public Catalogue Foundation.