Posted Wednesday, Feb 4, 2009
Social Media expert, Dr. Robert Chandler (onFocus University), joins Connor to discuss web-based community and user-generated content. He also takes a few calls from QPR listeners.
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Stories of schools struggling with what to do with misbehaving kids. For teachers, it’s not clear how to get the kids to behave. Asking politely does not always work. Or detention. You can suspend them, but sending kids home from the thing they hate is a weird punishment. There's no general agreement about what to do…
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/538/is-this-working
Stories of people trying to love their neighbors…and failing.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/184/neighbors
Baltimore, 1999. Hae Min Lee, a bright teenager disappears after school one day. Six weeks later her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed is arrested for her murder. He says he's innocent — though he can't remember what he was doing that afternoon. But someone can. A classmate at Woodlawn High School claims to know exactly where Adnan was.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/537/the-alibi
Students all over are starting college this month, and some of them still have a nagging question: what, exactly, got me in? An admissions officer tells us the most wrongheaded things applicants try. And Michael Lewis has the incredible story of how a stolen library book got one man — Emir Kamenica — into his dream school.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/504/how-i-got-into-college
From boom bap to EDM, we look at the line between hip-hop and not, and meet a defender of the …
http://www.radiolab.org/story/straight-outta-chevy-chase/#commentlist
Nightmarish stories of musical hallucinations, songs with the power to transcend language, & the triumphant return of the Elvis of …
There's lots of ways we define where we're from. And whether we're proud of it, or ashamed of it, love it, hate it, miss it or are trying desperately to get back to it — where we're from is always a big part of who we are. This week, stories of people who are, in good ways and bad ways, coming to terms with the places they call home.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/520/no-place-like-home
Mike Anderson was 36 years old, married, a suburban father of four. He owned a contracting business and built his family’s modest, three-bedroom house in St. Louis from the ground up. He volunteered at church on the weekends and coaches his son’s football team. All pretty normal, right? Except for one thing … which surfaced one day last summer.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/518/except-for-that-one-thing
Stories of filling in the blank. A man finds himself in a train station in India, with no idea how he got there or who he is.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/399/contents-unknown
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