Queenly Podcasts

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podcasts on e-learning, instructional design, teaching and designing effective online courses and programs, leadership in the e-learning organization. very queenly!

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Virtual Good Deeds Society: A Network to Join Now

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 bullying, fearfulness, self-harming, and despair often weigh kids down in our world today, and they have few strategies for bringing themselves up. Plus...

Feb 22, 2009

Amy Winehouse: Tragic Camp of the Reinvented Bad Girl

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. Amy Winehouse's costuming and public persona evoke the tragedy of Anna Nicole Smith and even Dorothy Stratten, the Playboy centerfold murdered by her m...

Jul 09, 2008

Ruby On Rails: New Book Guides New Solutions (Review)

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 guidance and insight. It is not intended for users who want to develop exotic uses, nor does it require users to be familiar with more complex web-bas...

Jan 06, 2008

Britney Spears and other Celebrity Deconstructions

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 confessional differs from that of, say, St. Augustine, or Rousseau, or even Thomas DeQuincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater . The tabloid confessio...

Oct 12, 2007

Britney Spears and other Celebrity Deconstructions

Podcast: http://www.beyondutopia.net/podcasts/britney-deconstructs.mp3 Each paparazzi shot of Britney is a treasure trove of "what's wrong with this picture" -- and, while it's fun to try to pick out all the things that are a stylist's nightmar e -- it's also instructive. In a single Britney pic, one might find ill-fitting wig over shaved head, a shirt worn as a dress (revealing fleshy buttocks), a miniature Yorkshire terrier wearing a cast on its leg, a crying child, assorted "wardrobe malfunct...

Sep 01, 2007

Small College Turnarounds: Identifying Problems, Proposing Solutions

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. This article, by Susan Smith Nash, helps identify problems and proposes solutions. http://www.beyondutopia.net/podcasts/turnarounds.mp3 Full text, with ...

Aug 21, 2007

Smartphones in E-Learning

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. Smartphones are starting to have the functionality of handheld devices such as the Dell Axim. New infrastructure and information architectures make download...

Aug 14, 2007

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