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  I can't help but dream about a kind of criticism that would not try to judge, but bring an oeuvre, a book, a sentence, an idea to life; it would light fires, watch the grass grow, listen to the wind, and catch the sea-foam in the breeze and scatter it. It would multiply, not judgments, but signs of existence; it would summon them, drag them from their sleep. Perhaps it would invent them sometimes - all the better. All the better. Michel Foucault

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This is brilliant - Music and Life, a production by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, was created using recordings from libertarian Alan Watts.
If we apply the metaphor to education, this short film encapsulates how we undermine the joys (the singing and dancing) of learning with our obsession with the finishing point (high stakes [...]

Mashable has created an incredible list of video tools. There are more than 150 links to a whole range of video resources including live video, online video how-to, online video editors, online video converters, video sharing, video hosting, video organization and management, vidcasts & vlogging, video mashups, mobile video apps, video search and online TV.

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