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The title is such an intertextual reference to the amazing film, Run Lola Run. Either that or Forrest Gump! Sounds like a good film to see nonetheless. Thanks for the recommendation!

I think this belongs under discussion.

Ummm… I agree with Andrew. Is this supposed to teach me a lesson? If so, what am I missing? I don’t think this is a lesson… Why did you choose to create it as a lesson instead of a discussion?

Hmmm… Don’t lessons also elicit discussions and vice versa? I would keep it here as an excellent lesson because it encourages feedback. For me, lessons that engage me and promote interaction are excellent regardless of the topic. What is the purpose of a lesson? Is it only to inform? How does one retain the information? How does one learn? Is it not through reflection?

I think what content a person wants to share on LearnHub is up to the person. I’m happy to use the Lesson Page as a variety of things, and you could say I am teaching people if this movie is good or bad ;) It’s a learning experience. This is the wonderful world of being involved in an open social learning community. I don’t think you’ve lost anything stumbling upon this “review” of a movie. Once we add admin tools (very soon!) for your content you can moderate and push your content in the direction you want it to be. If you don’t want people posting random comments on your page, that’s up to you. You can delete the post and direct readers towards a relating discussion.

By the way, comments can also be discussions. Theres no reason acrosstheuniverse’s comment should be in a discussion. Actually it’s perfect. After reading the lesson, I can scroll down a little and see what others say about this topic. In fact, now I want to go check out and learn about Run Lola, Run. It seems interesting. These don’t have to be just, “Great lesson!” or “Awesome!”.

The reason we added comments at the bottom of lessons, videos, and presentations is to allow readers to comment on a lesson, add their own view point. Remember this is a social learning platform, we WANT people to interact, ask questions, state their opinions. This is the wonderful thing about education 2.0. No one has to be mute, everyone can be involved.

If everything is going to be used in such an ambiguous way where I can’t distinguish a discussion from a lesson from a comment than lets call everything thinking nodes and have them posted in every single community with every feature and you get 7 authority points for each post.

Can we have the ability to rate discussions? Would that have an effect on the person who created the discussion or the community? It’s all seeming very jumbled and arbitrary to me.

This discussion makes me think of Carl Rogers’ book called Freedom to Learn. I highly recommend the book.

I think its fun to see tools used in ways they weren’t designed for.

Flickr, for instance, used to disallow non-photographic images to be uploaded… in addition to this being hard to enforce, users were doing it all the time and loving it! It is now the best way I know to browse screenshots or websites and applications.

Check out FactoryJoe’s Flickr collection, Design Patterns.

Flickr came to their senses and embraced this unanticipated development.

There’s a very similar story about eBay... which didn’t used to have a “Automobile” section. Users posted to the “Toy Cars” section until it was created… today eBay makes more from car auctions than any other kind!

“Just look at Clint Eastwood, great western actor, horrid director. Sorry all you Million Dollar Baby fans; it had a great story no doubt, but the direction was just terrible.”

Du-hu-de! Did you really write this or are you bearing the cross for the sins of some weak human?

Almost everything about that statement is wrong and/or incomplete! Eastwood was not exactly a “great” actor, he just fit the bill for the strong, silent, callously violent Western protagonist really well. On the other hand, he has always been an excellent director. Million Dollar Baby was not really a great story, in fact if you take the direction out of it and strip it down to bare essentials, it sounds quite cliched. More importantly, is Million Dollar Baby the only directorial venture of Eastwood you could think of? What about Unforgiven, Bird, Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider? Just look at his range, from revisionist Westerns that were a critique of his own early work to a biopic of a jazz legend, from an extremely well-shot war movie to a sappy boxing movie!

The man is without a doubt one of the greatest and most diverse directors of his generation. All of his movies are very well-researched, never loud or mainstream but not so “arty” or pretentious as to turn off the mainstream audience.

Simon Pegg was pretty awesome in Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead