Podcast. You and your school can participate in a "Sister School" program with a school in another country. Establish a "Virtual Good Deeds Society," which can help kids overcome feelings of loneliness and isolation, and develop a spirit of kindness and cooperation, that encourages freedom of expression. The Good Deeds Societies recognize that bull…

Podcast: http://www.beyondutopia.net/podcasts/amywinehouse.mp3 Amy Winehouse's exaggerated bouffant, Cleopatra eyes, and her own songs, "I'm No Good," and her remake of "He Hit Me and It Felt Like a Kiss," remind one of all echoes of earlier times. The perception is of women gutted by the male gaze, controlled by Svengali managers and boyfriends. A…

Ruby on Rails podcast A new book, just released by Packt Publishing, can help make elearning solutions more efficient by using the Ruby on Rails web development framework. The book, which is intended for users who have a basic familiarity with the framework, and who wish to develop their own applications or enterprise solutions, contains valuable g…

podcast: http://beyondutopia.net/podcasts/britney-deconstructs.mp3 Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Courtney Love - the commodification of personal disaster is discussed from the point of view of a postmodern media confessional. This is a variant of the genre of the confession or confessional. Susan discusses how the tabloid / media spectator confess…

Podcast This podcast proposes solutons for small colleges and universities that find themselves in dire straits. Some of the colleges suffering from rising costs, declining enrollments, and declining contributions and endowments may have actually experienced a turnaround in the 1990s, but, due to circumstances, find themselves in trouble again. Thi…

Podcast: Smartphones in E-Learning My Podcast By now, everyone is familiar with the attributes of the iPhone, but what about the smartphones? Let’s look at the Blackberry, the Blackjack, the T-Mobile Sidekick, Samsung, and others. With the ability to download, store, and play mp3 files, video files, and images, the competition has heated up. Smartp…