[LM_NET] January FNO - Brave New Citizen, Death of the Book? and Beyond PowerPoint

[Jamieson McKenzie <fromnowon@EARTHLINK.NET>]

There are two articles and a cartoon in the January issue.
http://fno.org/jan08/cov.html

--------  1. The Brave New Citizen
By Jamie McKenzie
http://fno.org/jan08/new.html

This article is based on a keynote delivered at the November 2007
annual conference of the National Council of the Social Studies.

Smart uses of new technologies such as mind-mapping software
combined with strong questioning and the pursuit of "difficult truths"
can serve as antidotes to the disturbing cultural drift brought on by
an uncritical embrace of all things new and digital.

--------  2. Beyond PowerPoint
By Kendra Grant
http://fno.org/jan08/beyond.html

Consider the value of presenting with a different software tool
that PowerPoint or Keynote. Kendra gives vivid examples of how
Inspiration can organize information in ways that can communicate
more effectively than programs relying on slides.

--------  3. Cartoon - Death of the Printed Book? Again?
http://fno.org/jan08/jancartoon.html

Newsweek Magazine greets Amazon's new eBook Kindle
as if this new venture is somehow different from other
failed eBooks of the past decade. "Can it Kindle the Imagination?"



Jamie McKenzie
Editor
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