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A is for Anachronism
Lester, Maria
Experiences of a teacher.
The ABC of Communism
Bukharin, Preobrazhensky; (edited by Carr, E. H.)
Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action.
Against School: How public education cripples our kids, and why
Gatto, John Taylor
An essay by a retired teacher on the infantilization of children by the public school system. This intellectual history of US public school curiculum reveals that it was conceived as a democratic mea...
Alien Invasion: How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
Cohen, Ruth (ed.)
An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
Graham, Robert (ed.)
Assaulting Public Education in Canada: Privatization Plague Spreads: Against The Current vol. 82
Plawiuk, Eugene
For the past six years right-wing provincial governments across Canada have embraced the neoliberal agenda of "educational reform." Four provinces in particular, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New ...
The AT Reader: Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
Carr, Marilyn
An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Briski, Zana; Kauffman, Ross
The chronicling of two documentary filmmakers and their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
Bound By Power: Intended Consequences
Klaehn, Jeffery (ed.)
These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power an...
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Putnam, Robert D.
Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the...
Canada After Harper: His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
Finn, Ed (editor)
Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, w...
Canadian Information Sharing Service: Pilot Copy, February 1976
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Chomsky on Democracy and Education
Chomsky, Noam
Education stands at the intersection of Noam Chomsky's two lives as scholar and social critic: As a linguist he is keenly interested in how children acquire language, and as a political activist he vi...
Chomsky on MisEducation
Chomsky, Noam; edited and introduced by Donald Macedo
Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
Class Warfare: The Assault on Canada's School
Barlow, Maude; Robertson, Heather-Jane
The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control ...
Coming of Age in America
Friedenberg, Edgar Z.
Compulsory Mis-education and The Community of Scholars
Goodman, Paul
Two books combined in a single volume. A far-ranging critique of the state of American eduation.
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Connexions Annual 1989: A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
Connexions Annual 1994: A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
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Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series...
Connexions Annual Overview: Education, Children
Education is being seen as an essential element of grassroots development both in Canada and abroad. The guiding idea is that education is not merely concerned with imparting knowledge, but with helpi...
Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rig...
Connexions Digest: Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
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Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
Corporations Meet Resistance Inside Boston's Schools
Spritzler, John
The corporate elite are a small minority and their values are the opposite of most peoples' values. Things that most people consider immoral, like deliberately increasing the number of students who fa...
A crisis manufactured by the Harris government
Diemer, Ulli
Moving at breakneck speed to ram through ill-conceived ideologically driven schemes with mindless arrogance.
The Crisis of Modern Society
Cardan, Paul (Cornelius Castoriadis)
Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
Critical Paths: Organizing on health Issues in the community
Keck, Jennifer; Dauphinais, Denriette; Lewko, John
Critical pedagogy: Connexipedia Article
a teaching approach that attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate: in other words, a theory and practice of helping students achieve cri...
Dark Age Ahead
Jacobs, Jane
A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
Death at an Early Age
Kozol, Jonathan
Death of the university?
Malik, Kenan
As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers. There is, however, a fundamental difference between being a student and being a consumer. Education is not a produc...
A Decentralist Manifesto
Borsodi, Ralph
No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions ne...
Democracy and Education
Dewey, John
John Dewey's classic work on the nature of education, and the ideal ways in which children should be educated.
Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
Winter, James
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture publi...
Deschooling Our Lives
Hern, Matt (ed.)
Deschooling Our Lives would be of interest to people wishing to learn about alternative methods of education beyond the confines of the conventional school system. The book is a collection of short p...
Deschooling Society
Illich, Ivan
Dewey, John: Connexipedia Article
American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. (1859-1952).
The Dignity of Youth and Other Atavisms
Friedenberg, Edgar Z.
Disability in the Majority World I've got a right!: New Internationalist November 2005
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Discussion of people with dissability and their fight for equal rights.
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Gatto, John Taylor
After over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning "disabilities" are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffe...
Educating for a Change
Arnold, Rick, Burke, Bev, James, Carl, Martin, D'Arcy, Thomas, Barb
For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a ...
Educating Kids for Jobs for the 21st Century
Ohanian, Susan
We distribute jobs by social class. If we 'qualify' all students with a college degree, then 100% of students will be competing for the 22% of jobs requiring college degrees. The answer here is not to...
The Education Deform Fraud: Book Review
Pope, Debby
Book Review of "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools" By Diane Ravitch.
Education for Change: Henry Giroux and Transformative Critical Pedagogy: Against The Current vol. 83
Hudson, Mark
These are difficult times for teachers in U.S. public schools. The increasing size of schools, chronic underfunding of schools serving working-class students (especially students of color), work overl...
The Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906-1960
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Calls for great energy and initiative; for African Americans controlling their own lives, and for continued experimentation and innovation, while keeping education#s fundamentally radical nature in vi...
Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and imp...
Escape from Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children
Holt, John
A book about young people and their place, or lack of place in society today. It is about the institution of modern childhood, the attitudes, customs and laws that define children and locate children ...
Exploring Alternatives: Free Schools
Moffatt, Gary; Westley, Dennis
Since our schools and universities are unwilling to adopt basic, or even moderate, reform, the only way to achieve a worthwhile education is through free schools.
False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Aronowitz, Stanley
Four Trends That Scare the Hell Out of Me
Wilson, Robert Anton
To paraphrase H.G. Wells, modern history has become a race between education and miseducation. There are very few people around who really don't know anything, but there are multitudes who know many t...
Free Speech and Acceptable Truths: Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
Alumni for Responsible Speech (Ulli Diemer)
While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by in...
Freedom and Beyond
Holt, John
Freedom - Not License!
Neill, A.S.
A.S. Neill, the founder of Summerhill School, responds to questions about cdhild rearing.
The Friendly Classroom for a Small Planet: A Handbook on Creative Approaches to Living and Problem Solving for Children
Children's Creative Response to Conflict Program
This is a handy resource book for teachers, parents, and all those who work with children. It contains exercises and plans which help develop a community in which children are capable and desirous of ...
From Iron Mines to Iron Bars
Garvey, John
Exploring some of the consequences of the long-term decline in union membership and the significant shift in membership towards public sector workers.
Goodman, Paul: Connexipedia Article
American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
Growing Up Absurd
Goodman, Paul
Goodman offers a fundamental critique of the Organized System of semimonopolies, government, advertisers, etc., and the disaffection of the growing generation.
The Growth Illusion: How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Douthwaite, Richard
Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national...
The History of Costa Rica
Molina, Ivan; Palmer, Steven
An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
Home Sweet Home?: The Impact of Poor Housing on Health
Marsh, A; Gordon; Pantazis, C; Heslop, P
The authors set out to research three topics: the link between overcrowding and respiratory and infectious diseases; how and if housing deprivation impacts on overall health and finally the link betw...
Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
Pelosi, Alexandra
Follows a group of children as their families struggle to live survive in one of the country's wealthiest areas.
How Children Fail
Holt, John
The classroom should be a place of learning. Instead it is the scene of a continual battle in which teacher and child struggle to gain the advantage. The casualties are heavy. Some children fail outri...
How People Get Power: Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
Kahn, Si
A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
How 2 Take an Exam... & Remake the World
Ollman, Bertell
I Won't Learn from You: And Other Inquiries Into the Control and Liberation of Learning
Kohl, Herbert
This collection of essays discusses what takes place when a student's intelligence, dignity, or integrity is compromised.
Illich, Ivan: Connexipedia Article
Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).
In the Corporate Interest: The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools
Shaker, Erike (ed.)
Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better
Holt, John
Holt returns to the old truth that we learn things by doing them. He says this has been forgotten by today's educators, who believe we shouldn't start to do things until after they have been "learned....
It's Our Own Knowledge: Labour, Public Education, and Skills Training
Davis, Julie (ed.)
John Holt: Homeschooling Pioneer and Visionary Progressive
Nall, Jeffrey
The stereotype of homeschooling as the haven for conservative, religious ideologues overshadows the movement's radically progressive roots. One of the movement's foremost pioneers, John Holt, was an e...
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution: Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Draper, Hal
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
Land and Community: Crisis in Canada's Countryside
Sim, R. Alex
Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
Life, Money & Illusion: Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
Nickerson, Michael
The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example ...
Living and Learning: The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario
Hall, E.M.; Dennis, L.A.
The "Hall-Dennis" Report, proposing new objectives and direction in education in Ontario.
March of the Vouchers - What Should the Left Learn from School Choice Debates?: Against The Current vol. 82
Brighouse, Harry
In April, Florida became the first state to adopt a statewide school voucher plan. By a vote of 25-15 the State Senate adopted the absurdly named "A+ Plan for Education" which had previously been pass...
Marxism & Education
Documents on education and Marxism.
MCAS: Why Is This Being Done to Our Kids?
High stakes tests are meant to legitimize the growing inequality of society. They are designed to drive millions of students out of school so that, if they end up with a low-paying job or no job at al...
Monopoly Capital: An essay on American economic and social order
Baran, Paul A.; Sweezy, Paul M.
An analysis of American capitalism.
A Nation of Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
Erickson, Megan
The religion of self-improvement is a way of redirecting criticisms or outrage from socio-economic structures back to the individual, imprisoning any reformist or revolutionary impulse within our own ...
Neill, A. S.: Connexipedia Article
Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school. (1883-1973).
Neo-Racism in the Southwest: The (Mis)education of the Coming Majority
Mariscal, Jorge
What is taking place in southern Arizona deserves our attention as the most fanatical episode in the war against public education.
New Reformation: Notes of a Neolithic Conservative
Goodman, Paul
Goodman says: "For green grass and clean rivers, children with bright eyes and good color whatever the color, people safe from being pushed around so they can be themselves -- for a few things like th...
On Education: Especially in Early Childhood
Russell, Bertrand
On Education: Articles on Educational Theory and Pedagogy, and Writings for Children from "The Age of Gold"
Martí, Jose
Writings on educational theory, pedagogy, and the relationship between education and popular democracy.
Once Again on Education: Beyond Ordinary Leftism
Garvey, John
An article exploring elements of education in the USA.
The Other Public Humanities
Case, Kristen
Among the conclusions frequently drawn about the heavily reported "crisis in the humanities" is that humanities departments are woefully out of touch with today's students, with the new economy, with ...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016: Back to School
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which edu...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Freire, Paulo
Freire maintains that every human being, no matter or "ignorant" or submerged in the "culture of silence," is capable of looking critically at the world in a dialogical encounter with others, and that...
A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Zinn, Howard
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
The Present Moment in Education
Goodman, Paul
Race and Class: Brown v. Board of Education 50 Years Later: Against The Current vol. 111
Miah, Malik
I found the headline of the May 17 Business Week article on the 50th anniversary of the famous Brown v. Board of Education landmark Supreme Court ruling, that "separate but equal" schools were unconst...
Red Bologna
Jaggi, Max
Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
Goldman, Emma (edited by Shulman, Alix Kates)
A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
Red Pepper
Serial Publication (Periodical)
Independent magazine of the green and radical left.
Resource Manual for A Living Revolution: A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Coover, Virginia, Deacon, Ellen, Esser, Charles, Moore, Christopher
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to tra...
Rethinking Educational Failure and Reimagining an Educational Future
Garvey, John
If we start not from the goal of acculturating most children to the demands of an economy which promises only to make things worse, but from the goal of preparing all children to live in a world worth...
The Revisionaries
Thurman, Scott
The Revisionaries follows the attempts of a creationist Board of Education member to revise the science and history curricula to better suit a white, Christian nation.
Revolution of the Deaf
Sacks, Oliver
Rituals Of Failure: What Schools Really Teach
Contenta, Sandro
Contenta writes that there is a hidden curriculum of passiveness in today's schools in Canada; instead of making students critical thinkers, the not-so smart students are made to feel they are just be...
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Kozol, Jonathan
Schule und Fabrik: Internationale Marxistische Discussion 30
Gorz, Andre (ed.)
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Gramsci, Antonio
Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
Skills Mania: Snake Oil in Our Schools?
Davis, Bob
Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
Schumacher, E.F.
Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
Society of Citizens of the World
Sarvide, Laura ; Sanchez, Gabriela
Student Protest: The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
McGuigan, Gerald F.
Studies in Socialist Pedagogy
Norton Theodore Mills; Ollmann, Bertell (eds.)
The Survival of Education: Against The Current vol. 134
Olson, Peter
I remember reading Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities as a student activist, when becoming a teacher was an abstract and somewhat romanticized idea floating around my head. I was moved by the politi...
"Take This Test and Shove It!"
Spritzler, John
Open resistance to high stakes tests is an important development: it can be the first step in a movement uniting students, teachers, parents, and others against the corporate assault on public educati...
Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders
Hartman, Andrew
Teach for America, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teache...
Teach Me! Kids Will Learn When Oppression is the Lesson
Levin, Murray
Provides an imaginative and workable way of reaching the students that our educational system is failing.Teach Me! is a book that will change the way teachers think.
Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
Osborne, Ken
Things My Students Don't Know
Schwalbe, Michael
One of the discussion exercises I use in my course on corporate power begins with the bare text of the First Amendment projected on screen at the front of the room. I tell students that this is a rece...
36 Children
Kohl, Herbert
This Book Is About Schools
Repo, Satu (ed.)
A collection of articles from This Magazine is About School containing many first person narratives that argue that the current school system is rife with inequality and repression. Repo points out th...
This Magazine is about Schools
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A Canadian magazine about schools and education founded in 1966.
This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 5, Number 2: Spring 1971 issue
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission To Promote Peace ... One School At A Time
Mortenson, Greg; Relin, David Oliver
The Training Trap: Ideology, Training and the Labour Market
Dunk, Thomas; McBride, Stephen; Nelsen, Randle W.
A collection of essays examines changes in the Canadian labour market with respect to education, training, and unemployment.
Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World: An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
Murphy, Brian K.
Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
The Tyranny of Testing
Hoffmann, Banesh
Underground Times
Verzuh, Ron
The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
Universal Cure
Monbiot, George
Here's a simple means of transforming the UK's universities, schools and society.
The Venezuelan Revolution: New Internationalist June 2006
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A look inside the Venezuelan Revolution and facts and history of the country.
We Make the Road By Walking: Conversations on education and social change
Horton, Myles; Freire, Paulo
Horton, the founder of the Highlander Folk School, and Freire, a Brazilian education leader, are from two different backgrounds, but their shared views on the use of participatory education in bringin...
What is education for?
Malik, Kenan
There is a fundamental difference between being a student and being a consumer. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process, a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by...
Will Teach for Food
Nelson, Cary (ed.)
17 essays on academic labour in crisis.
A Witness to Destroying Schools: Book Review
Jordan, Joel
Book Review of "Schoolhouse Shams: Myths and Misinformation in School Reform" by Peter Downs.
Working Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Palmer, Bryan D.
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweepi...
You'll Never Be Good Enough: Schooling and Social Control
Stratman, Dave
The remarkable thing about the public schools isn't that some teachers become demoralized and "burned out," or that some students drop out or do poorly, but that so many teachers and students achieve ...
Youth Subdued: 8 Ways Young Americans Have Been Dominated
Levine, Bruce E.
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. But now young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely ...
Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites
Anarchist U - Anarchist Free University
A volunteer-run collective which organizes a variety of courses on arts and sciences. Most courses run for ten weeks, and meet once a week; there are no admission fees. The Anarchist U follows the tra...
Arusha Cross-Cultural Centre
Stimulate reflection and action by Canadians to promote equitable development of peoples at home and abroad, and communication and understanding among people of different cultures.
Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout
CNP is a non-profit initiative directed by a steering committee of activists across Canada. CNP encourages the phaseout of nuclear power in favour of safer, cleaner and more economic energy alternativ...
Canadian Crossroads International
CCI fosters global understanding by placing Canadian volunteers in the developing world, placing volunteers from developing nations in Canada, and sponsoring community education programs. Each year, m...
Canadian Society for International Health
To facilitate education and research in international health through the mobilization of Canadian resources.
Center for Global Development
An independent, not-for-profit think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active enga...
Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada
Advocate for accessible, affordable, high quality, comprehensive, not for profit child care for every Canadian.
Childbirth by Choice Trust
To educate the public on the issues of birth control, abortion and family planning.
Citizens for Public Justice
CPJ is a national organization promoting justice in Canadian public affairs, responding politically to God's call for love toward our neighbour and responsibility for our environment. We use research,...
Common Ground Magazine
Independent magazine about health, the environment, personal growth and creativity.
Anarchist site with news and information for people who are questioning the system which hates them. In English, French, German and Catalan.
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Connexions provides information and services for advocacy groups, voluntary and non-profit organizations, and individuals, who are working for social and economic justice, environmental responsibility...
Conscience Canada
Inform, educate and encourage action about freedom of conscience, guaranteed in Constitution, specifically to build a more peaceful world, by directing war taxes to peace.
Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and imp...
Entr'@ide vous propose des ressources humanitaires du monde francophone: un annuaire de plus de 220 associations et des liens en rapport. Son objectif est d'aider … la communication entre les acteurs ...
Essential Skills Ontario
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BBC trials bitesize news reports on Instagram video
The BBC has begun experimenting with using Instagram video as a way of distributing bitesize news reports.
Though the Beeb has been using Instagram video for some time, up to now the clips were just repurposed TV news footage.
The new '#Instafax' short form news service uses content specifically created for Instagram, with each video including a selection of images and facts that give a very brief outline of the story.
It's described as being "very experimental" at this stage and it's great to see the BBC trialling innovative methods of sharing news and connecting with a younger audience.
Seven interesting social media campaigns from November
As we approach the end of the penultimate month of 2013 it's time to round up some of the most interesting and noteworthy social campaigns we've seen in the past 30 days or so.
This time it includes efforts from MTV, Red Bull, Manchester City, Sony and ASOS.
If you've spotted any other decent social campaigns in November please flag them up in the comments...
10 of the most shared brands on Instagram video
40% of the 1,000 most shared Instagram videos (Instavids) last month came from brands.
The 15 second long Instavid format has only been around for a few months, but is already giving Vine a run for its six second-long money. We've discussed the respective benefits of each in this provocatively titled article Fight Club! Instagram vs. Vine.
It seems that brands have been quick to utilise this longer form media. The 150m incumbent Instagram users are clearly a major draw, as opposed to the still not inconsiderable 40m users on Vine, although it should be noted that Vine picked up all those users in just nine months.
Sprite scores big win thanks to Tumblr's potential for long-term engagement
Drinks brand Sprite managed to outperform its rivals and achieve the greatest exposure on Tumblr in July.
This is despite the fact that it only blogged three updates, while second-placed MTV posted a massive 114 times.
The findings, which come from a report by Simply Measured, show the high potential for long-term amplification on Tumblr compared to other social networks, as nearly all of Sprite's 85,000 reblogs were owed to a single post made prior to the study period.
The Sprite post in question is an animated GIF of a game of spin the bottle. Not very complex, but it captured the imagination of Sprite's audience and isn't something that can necessarily be replicated on other networks.
What will TV look like in 2031?
The year is 2031. Flying cars have just hit the open market, the New York Mets are on the verge of winning their first World Series in forty-five years, and television as we know it has ceased to exist.
Let's first imagine that a super smart group of MIT engineers solved all the technical troubles we'd encounter in switching from a broadcast to a unicast model.
The public's consumption habits now overwhelmingly favor an on-demand format, and each household is equipped with a SmarTV capable of streaming content instantaneously from anywhere on the web.
Traditional channels have fallen in the face of more agile competition from platforms like Netflix and Hulu, or they've adapted to HBO Go-esque versions of their former selves.
Use of Instagram growing among top brands: report
Brands continue to invest heavily in their presences on social media stalwarts like Facebook and Twitter and when it comes to newcomers, Pinterest seems to be creating the most buzz.
But the company that Facebook agreed to purchase for $1bn, Instagram, is quietly seeing adoption from a growing number of brands.
Viacom & DirecTV take their fight online
Popular Viacom channels, including MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and more, have been dropped from the DirecTV network after negotiations broke down over a contract renewal.
Neither company is looking very good as they each try to control the narrative and paint one another in a negative light. How could these companies be so insensitive that they would choose to seperate viewers from the programs they love?
MTV launches social TV app 'Under The Thumb'
MTV has moved into the social TV market with a new mobile app called MTV Under The Thumb.
The app allows users to watch MTV on-demand content simultaneously with friends and chat about it in the app at the same time.
Users can also share their favourite shows through Facebook and watch the content through their desktop computer by connecting their mobile to a web browser with the mobile then acting as a remote control.
The app, which was developed by Viacom and AKQA, is initially being launched free on iOS and Android in Europe with additional subscription models for premium content.
MTV's Facebook app helps US students tap $70b in aid
Today MTV, in partnership with Get Schooled and the College Board, launched "My College Dollars," a new Facebook app that matches US students with financial aid opportunities. Once you sign up, you are targeted with scholarships based on information collected by Facebook such as your age, gender and state.
For the next 6 weeks, students can also take part in the "My College Dollars Sweepstakes." If they connect to the app and save a scholarship deadline to their calendar, or, as it usually is with socially driven contests, share the app with a friend, they can enter to win. Prizes include tickets to the "2012 MTV Music Awards" or gift cards to cover school supplies. They suggest books and fees, though knowing college students, some of it will go on beer.
So why is this app so important?
Geomarketing: Ten Foursquare marketing campaigns
Geolocation-based social network Foursquare just might be the internet's 'next big thing'. While it isn't anywhere close to the size of Twitter or Facebook, the young company last month passed the million user mark.
That's a memorable milestone for any consumer internet startup, but the company's progress is perhaps better measured by the number of marketing deals it has inked with bigger companies. Here are 10 of those deals.
Guidos in revolt: Michael Cera's new MTV promo
Sometimes it doesn't seem like two great tastes will taste great together, but combining Michael Cera with the cast of "The Jersey Shore" turned out to be a winning strategy for MTV this week. The music network brought the emo film star to its studios this week to get some guido tips from the pros. The resulting images and video were leaked online to create maximum blowout for both Cera's movie and MTV's new hit show.
Television advertising can go wrong with online formats
Television networks have learned a few lessons from online advertising, but a new effort by Disney ignores the distinctions between the two media. According to AdAge today, ESPN and ABC are now testing advertising that will run above or below network shows during programming.
The latest in the networks' efforts to combat commercial fast forwarding, this plan confuses intrusion for engagement.

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Why offer a TAP in your area? The most obvious answer is that it will develop new bridge teachers and help experienced teachers refine their skills. The teachers in turn will create more local players and generate new interest in bridge.
The TAP can be run at a profit by a unit, district or individual willing to promote the program. The ACBL charges $1,700 for the TAP (the average cost) and the sponsor keeps the course fees. TAP expenses (both ACBL and local) will be fully recovered with as few as 20 participants paying a course fee of $95 each.
The sponsor sets the course fee to be paid by the teacher candidates and collects these fees. The course fee generally ranges from a low of $50 to a high of $95. When held in conjunction with a regional tournament, discounts on the base price of $95 are normally offered to members of the sponsoring district and/or unit. (The ACBL charges $125 for an NABC TAP.)
The ACBL provides the TAP Teacher-Trainer fees and expenses, course materials including the Bidding (Club Series) text, all administrative and processing fees, and listings in The Bridge Bulletin and online Accreditation Calendar.
The sponsor provides a room for the course classes and testing session, a local TAP Coordinator to take registrations, make hotel and site arrangements and assist the TAP Teacher-Trainer and any advertising for the program.
The TAP is a 10-hour course and can be conducted over a weekend. It is preferable to schedule the three study sessions as four hours, three hours, and three hours. The TAP test is an open book test to be taken at the convenience of the participants. At a tournament site, two formats are possible. (1) Three consecutive morning sessions, or (2) two sessions (afternoon and evening) on the day before the tournament begins, followed by a morning session the next day.
Procedures for TAP Coordinators
- Discuss dates, times, site arrangements, budget publicity, and the teacher-trainer with ACBL Education Dept. (firstname.lastname@example.com). Be sure to keep good notes with contact names and dates. Be certain you understand your commitment to the ACBL.
- Talk with the teacher-trainer assigned or suggested, to insure that you are working within a proper schedule for the 10-hour course. Discuss supplies, how to be billed, shipped and returned. Note who will handle supplies at the site. Have supplies sent to the site, not your home, and returned from there if possible. Pre-arrangements can be made with UPS and handled through ACBL Headquarters in the USA only.
- Call the local secretary and get labels for club owners, district board, unit presidents and current teachers. Get two sets, as a follow-up letter works well. The more people you notify about the TAP, the better the attendance. You need about 20 people (paying a fee of $95 each) to recover the expenses of putting on this program.
- Keep a calendar to record the things that have been done and the things that need to be done. Use the calendar to note phone calls and expenses.
- Create information letters to units and plan your ads for The Bridge Bulletin and area bridge publications. Fliers can be printed and distributed at all tournaments. They must be bright, catchy and simple. Talk up the TAP at every opportunity. Your enthusiasm will convince people to take the course and they will come back and thank you.
- Set up the computer to take names, street addresses, phone numbers, ACBL numbers and payment. Get a unit number (you will need it if your unit/district is offering special prices or rebates to locals).
Four months before the TAP
- Write to all area units and club owners to ask for their support.
- Put a tickler ad in all local bridge papers.
- Prepare publicity and get it to these publications two months prior to the time you want to see it in print. Plan carefully. If your ads are too early, people forget and if they are too late, bridge players have already made playing arrangements.
Two months before the TAP
- Run ads with all the TAP details in The Bridge Bulletin, district inserts and area bridge publications.
- Distribute fliers at tournaments.
- Send a second letter to club owners and ask them to make two or three announcements in the next two weeks to get their players excited.
- Make hotel reservations for you and the TAP Teacher-Trainer.
- Keep ACBL updated regarding anticipated attendance.
Six weeks before the TAP
- Send ACBL all names of the paid participants in order for the TAP course materials to be sent early enough to allow study time.
- Update names on a weekly basis from this point on.
One month before the TAP
Check with the tournament chair to:
- Make certain a proper room has been assigned for the TAP
- Order card tables with chairs, a podium and a hand mike if there are more than 30 attending the course
- Confirm the arrival of TAP materials
- Order coffee for the TAP (and pastry if within your budget)
- Make arrangements for billing the TAP expenses
Note: The rental of the TAP site, catering and your hotel room nights are your responsibility and are not paid by the ACBL.
Two weeks before the TAP
- Send in your last participant list and request course materials for 25% more to be sent to the site for people who sign up at the last minute.
- Confirm that the ACBL will send pencils, TAP tests, markers, ACBL Teacher Info Manuals, E-Z Deal Cards and name tags to agreed location.
- Contact the Teacher-Trainer. Send class list, hotel arrangements, plane schedule with airport transport plan and a time and place that you will meet to check the TAP room, etc. (night before).
One week before the TAP
- Confirm the hotel arrangements, catering order and billing instructions.
- Confirm arrival of TAP supplies.
- Ask a volunteer to help you with TAP registration for at least half an hour on the first day of the TAP. One of you can make name tags; the other can sign up last-minute candidates who have not yet paid.
Night before first session of the TAP
- Meet with the tournament chair for any last-minute changes.
- Meet with the teacher-trainer.
- Make sure materials are in the room and the room is secure.
- Place signs in hotel lobby noting TAP location.
- Check with catering about the beverage order.
- Ask hotel to add the TAP to internal TV information channel.
45 minutes before the first session of the TAP
- Be at the door to greet early arrivals.
- Have coffee ready.
- Make out name tags (first names only) for all participants.
- Check names and information.
- Collect any last-minute money.
- After the TAP begins, make sure the teacher-trainer knows how to reach you if there is a problem. It is not necessary to stay in the room for the entire session.
- Be available at the start of each successive session for a few -minutes. There are always questions.
End of TAP
- Repack materials to be shipped back to the ACBL. Each shipment in the USA is pre-paid by the ACBL, and the ACBL will arrange for UPS to pick up the supplies at the hotel.
- See if the teacher-trainer needs any help getting to the airport.
- Report to the tournament chair when the classes are finished.
Day after TAP
- Tally expenses and submit to the tournament chair with a report summary on the TAP program.
- Pat yourself on the back for a job well done. Remember that this class is very small in the scheme of a large tournament, but if you can make it run smoothly and profitable it will be good for all.
Identifying Your Goals: A Checklist for Teachers
At each TAP some time is spent on marketing. This checklist was created to help teachers identify their goals when starting classes.
- Number of classes
- How much time does each class take?
- Pre-class preparation
- Transportation
- Clean-up
- Actual class time
- How much time do you have to give to this endeavor?
- How much time does each class take?
- Number of Students Per Class
- Take into consideration the amount of time it takes to prepare the material for a class. The larger the class, the more hands you must pre-deal. (E-Z Deal Cards should be used but consider the initial cost.)
- How many students do you need to make the amount of money you want to earn?
- Hourly Rate of Pay
- All of the time you will spend on each class, as identified in question #1, must be considered.
- What expenses will you have?
- Advertising
- Site Rental Fee
- Books
- Refreshments
- Mailing Costs
- Graduation Party
- Transportation
- Age Range of Students
- Have you had any experience teaching the age group you are interested in?
- Are you free at the time of day best suited for the age group you are interested in? (For example, senior classes are generally offered during the day.)
- Bridge Knowledge of Students
- Consider that some students may never have played any card games.
- Consider that the language of bridge may be a foreign language to beginning students.
- What do you expect?
- Time Your Students Are Expected to Spend on Bridge Between Classes
- How much time do you expect them to spend?
- How much available time do they have?
- Are they willing to spend more time than class time on bridge?
- Team-Teaching or Alone
- If you teach with a partner, how do you divide responsibilities and profits?
- If you should teach alone:
- How will you arrange for a substitute if an emergency keeps you from teaching a class?
- How will you handle make-up lessons for students?


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Beck, Valentine "Val" Peacefully on June 9, 2012 with his family by his side at the age of 86 years. Loving husband of the late Barbara (nee Bohr) (1999) Beloved father to Carolyn McCarthy; Linda (Edward) Grondin; Barbara Beck and the late Daniel (2007) and wife Wendy (2000). Dear grandpa to James (Amy) Grondin, Michelle (Nick) Kennette, Kari (Tony) Auby, Sean (Aubrey) McCarthy, and Michael Beck. Dear great grandpa to Mya and Sam, Benjamin and Liam, Addison and Carter, and Abigail and Nathyn. Dear brother of the late Andrew and wife Rose Beck. Dear uncle of Dolly and her daughter Charmaine Wheeldon. Dear companion of the late Jeannette Cooper. RESTING AT THE WINDSOR CHAPEL FUNERAL HOME (Main Chapel) 519-253-7234 1700 Tecumseh Rd. East on Tuesday June 12, 2012 from 2-5 and 7-9 pm. Funeral Service Wednesday June 13, 2012 (time later) in the Chapel. Interment to follow at Heavenly Rest Cemetery. As your expression of sympathy donations may be made to the Essex County Humane Society or to the Downtown Mission. Online condolences and cherished memories may be shared with the family at www.windsorchapel.com
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Ashley Judd Apologizes for Calling Rap and Hip-Hop 'The Contemporary Soundtrack of Misogyny'
"I fully capitulate to your rightness," she tells her critics.
Ashley Judd is catching some flack for dissing rap and hip-hop in her newly released memoir, All That Is Bitter and Sweet. In the book, Judd says that she was initially hesitant to work with YouthAIDS because of the organization's affiliation with Snoop Dogg and P. Diddy. "As far as I'm concerned, most rap and hip-hop music — with its rape culture and insanely abusive lyrics and depictions of girls and women as 'ho's' — is the contemporary soundtrack of misogyny." Yikes. Questlove responded on Twitter, writing "at least i got my answer as to why ash judd didn't give us so much as a nod on her last visit ... EVERY genre of music has elements of violence."
Judd then did what anyone would do: Called her pal Russell Simmons, who published a long interview with the actress and activist and then also ran a mea culpa of sorts on his Global Grind website. Judd called the backlash "distorted" and says that her intention was to "take a stand to say the elements that are misogynistic and treat girls and women in a hyper-sexualized way are inappropriate." Still, she understands her critics and addressing them says, "I fully capitulate to your rightness, and again humbly offer my heartfelt amends for not having been able to see the fault in my writing, and not having anticipated it would be painful for so many." She also quotes Nelson Mandela and Buddha, and says that Desmond Tutu is her "dearest, most valued friend."
Are there aspects of pop culture that reflect and perpetuate misogyny and exploitation? There sure are! And so do some newspaper articles. And some live tours where abusers are given center stage. And TV shows that show the softer side of convicted rapists. Rape culture and patriarchy: They're bad for everyone.


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7 Monday Must-Reads
Health law heads to court: Justices Hear Challenge in Case That Broadly Tests Boundaries of Federal Power, in today's Wall Street Journal. Small-business owners are in the center of this case.
Yelp's mysterious algorithm: A look at Yelp's sometimes infamous "review filter" in the Peninsula Press Sunday.
Square move: Turning Attention to the Payment Side, Square Rebrands Its Card Case as "Pay With Square," in AllThingsD Sunday .
"Cash Mobs" move overseas: Saturday was the first International Cash Mob day, according to this story in Reuters Sunday. Here's the Wall Street Journal's story on the origins of the movement.
Teen boss?: This 16-year-old owns a computer-repair start-up that has generated some $10,000 in revenue. He's got his sights on hiring employees and franchising, according to Friday's New York Daily News.
The anti-Walmart: How a supermarket business can generously train its workforce and profit handsomely.
A sense of closure: To create jobs, policymakers need to devote more resources to keeping existing small businesses open, rather than targeting all efforts at start-ups, according to this opinion piece by Scott Shane in Entrepreneur.com.
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