Present Tensed

Found on Web Between October 31st and November 8th, 2009

Here are some links that I’ve tagged recently. This set is from Octo­ber 31st through Novem­ber 8th:

• Howard Zinn, Dave Zirin, & Cam­paign to End the Death Penalty @ uchicago (Nov 2009) [Present Tensed / rasml.org] — over all, the event was an inspir ing call to action, as exon­er­ated death row pris on ers and activists reminded us that there is much work to be done in order to reform the amer i can crim i nal jus tice sys­tem. | live­blog howard_zinn death-penalty uchicago event
• Troy Davis case — Wikipedia — | law wikipedia death-penalty
• Troy Anthony Davis — | usa activism human­rights law death-penalty
• Who Is a Jew? Court Rul­ing in Britain Raises Ques­tion — NYTimes.com — The case rested on whether the school’s test of Jew­ish­ness was based on reli­gion, which would be legal, or on race or eth­nic­ity, which would not. | pol­i­tics reli­gion uk law
• Edge of Sports — | sports pol­i­tics dave.zirin
• Mus­lims brace for back­lash after Fort Hood shoot­ings — chicagotribune.com — Imam Kifah Mustapha, also of the Mosque Foun­da­tion, said he hopes the many Mus­lims serv­ing in the mil­i­tary do not become addi­tional vic­tims of this tragedy. He resented any men­tion of Hasan’s faith, say­ing it wouldn’t have been men­tioned if he wasn’t Mus­lim. | islam reli­gion pol­i­tics media
• Sim­ple Face­book Con­nect — | word­press plu­g­ins face­book
• Sam­sung SCX-4500W Mul­ti­func­tion Mono Laser Printer — 1200 x 1200 dpi effec­tive out­put, 5,000 Pages Per Month, 16 ppm, Copy, Scan, Wi-Fi at TigerDirect.com — $250 | printer merch gad­get
• MacHeist nanoBun­dle — | free soft­ware mac apple
• HowardZinn.org — | pol­i­tics biog­ra­phy activism his­tory
• Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling Resources for Teach­ers (jonorech — home) — | digital_storytelling
• Adler After Dark —> Adler Plan­e­tar­ium, Chicago, IL — | chicago event sci­ence astron­omy
• Com­pare My Docs — | docs com­par­i­son online
• ING Unsung Heroes GRANT — Each year, 100 edu­ca­tors are selected to receive $2,000 to help fund their inno­v­a­tive class projects. | grants edu­ca­tion
• The “Government-Run” Mantra | FactCheck.org — In any case, whether 6 mil­lion peo­ple take up the “pub­lic plan” (CBO) or 12 mil­lion (the Lewin Group’s high-end esti­mate), nei­ther num­ber comes close to back­ing up the GOP claim that this bill would “drive every pri­vate health insur­ance com­pany out of busi­ness” and result in “government-run” health care. | health­care pol­i­tics
• Tech­nol­ogy Scope and Sequence (Collinsville) — | tech_curriculum_map cur­ricu­lum map tech illi­nois stan­dards
• MIND Research Insti­tute — The pro­gram ST: Math is used by some ele­men­tary schools | math soft­ware elementary_school cps
• Seven ques­tions that keep physi­cists up at night — space — 23 Octo­ber 2009 — New Sci­en­tist — | sci­ence research physics
• Op-Ed Colum­nist — The G.O.P. Stal­in­ists Invade Upstate New York — NYTimes.com — Its antecedent can be found in the early 1960s, when radical-right hys­te­ria car­ried some of the same traits we’re see­ing now: seething rage, fear of minori­ties, mani­a­cal con­tempt for gov­ern­ment, and a Freudian ten­dency to mimic the excesses of polit­i­cal foes. Writ­ing in 1964 of that era’s equiv­a­lent to today’s tea party cells, the his­to­rian Richard Hof­s­tadter observed that the John Birch Society’s “ruth­less pros­e­cu­tion” of its own ide­o­log­i­cal war often mim­ic­ked the tac­tics of its Com­mu­nist ene­mies. | pol­i­tics
• What is the weather and what to wear in Chicago? — | chicago obama weather
• Dri­ven to Dis­trac­tion — Britain Sets Tough New Laws for Tex­ting While Dri­ving — Series — NYTimes.com — | wire­less prison law cell.phones uk
• Read­abil­ity — An Arc90 Lab Exper­i­ment — | web2.0 tools web util­ity design inter­net read­abil­ity usabil­ity
• 85 word­press plu­g­ins for blog­ging jour­nal­ists | Online Jour­nal­ism Blog — | blog word­press plu­g­ins
• 100 Blogs Every New Teacher Should Read | Online Schools — | edu­ca­tion blog lists
• Boston pub­lisher enters new chap­ter in text­books — The Boston Globe — nstead, Houghton will be pro­vid­ing a computer-based teach­ing sys­tem it devel­oped with Microsoft Corp. that will con­nect teach­ers, stu­dents, and admin­is­tra­tors. It’s a rad­i­cal shift away from the clas­sic text­book pub­lish­ing model and rep­re­sents an indus­try trans­for­ma­tion, as tech­nol­ogy sup­plants books. | text­books busi­ness edu­ca­tion microsoft
• ICDL — Inter­na­tional Children’s Dig­i­tal Library — | digital_library
• Com­puter Sci­ence Illus­trated! — | computer_science comics
• Pix­ton™ — Comic Strip Cre­ator — Make Your Own Web Comics Online — | digital_storytelling comics
• Chicago Teach­ers Union — | chicago pol­icy ctu union cps
• For the price of a TV you can start a FabLab — | fablab gad­get merch
• Pro­tect­ing dis­placed Africans: Selec­tive res­cue | The Econ­o­mist — | africa refugee pol­i­tics un
• Google’s New Assess­ment Tool | Teach­ing Mat­ters — | edu­ca­tion data google

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