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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:53:37 -0000

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U.S. companies step up on Haitian relief efforts - Jan. 15, 2010

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:23:33 -0000

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Corporate America has already pledged more than $40 million in donations to support earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

U.S. companies had already pledged $1 million or more apiece to international relief organizations working in Haiti.

They include Amgen (AMGN, Fortune 500), Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500), and Coca-Cola (KO, Fortune 500). Time Warner (TWX, Fortune 500), the parent company of Fortune and CNNMoney, is also raising funds for the relief effort.

Wal-mart (WMT, Fortune 500), the world's largest retailer, has pledged $600,000 to support Red Cross emergency relief efforts in Haiti. The company also announced that it is sending $100,000 in pre-packaged food kits to Haiti at the request of the Red Cross.

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by: jessical297 wcta

Support Disaster Relief in Haiti

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:23:31 -0000

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by: editht269 wcta

Billionaire Philanthropy and Haiti: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - Devon Pendleton - The Billionaire Beat - True/Slant

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:23:25 -0000

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“Hope for Haiti Telethon,” where others manning the phones included organizer George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Justin Timberlake, Leonardo DiCaprio, Halle Berry, Ringo Starr, Julia Roberts, Taylor Swift, Brad Pitt, Mohammad Ali, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Cindy Crawford, Robert DeNiro, Charlize Theron, Mel Gibson, Cameron Diaz, Reese Witherspoon, Keith Urban, Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Jeremy Pivens, Adam Sandler,Sheryl Crow, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Penelope Cruz, as well as one hundred other top entertainers in the music, movie and television industry.

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by: samanthat002 wcta

Haiti elections: cell phones and internet to facilitate voter turnout

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:22:58 -0000

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Students’ use of Kindles increases reading and collaboration (Pennsylvania) — Workflow: ePub

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:10:25 -0000

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by: BIANCA wcta

Web Collaboration Software: online collaboration software, groupware portal

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:09:17 -0000

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by: BIANCA wcta

BBC NEWS | Business | Mobile phone lifeline for world's poor | Diigo

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:56:21 -0000

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Haiti's cholera epidemic caused by weather, say scientists - SciDev.Net

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:12:22 -0000

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"Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium responsible for cholera, may have been dormant in water until weather-related conditions caused it to multiply enough to constitute an infective dose if ingested by humans," said David Sack, a cholera specialist at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States

Tags: haiti, cholera, outbreak, cause, weather, HaitiCholera

by: nicolasb036 wcta

Brave new wired world: Earthquake tsunami in Japan trigger social networking avalanche - Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:41:10 -0000

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Social Networking helps people; and helps Japan get over a disaster that will affect them for generations to come. - HEATHER wcta

Social networks open their cyber-doors to help rescue people in distress and disseminate information in these critical times when most other means of communication have broken down

t was a Friday that Japan will always dread. On 11 March 2011, nature unleashed a furious attack on the busy islanders, a 9.0 magnitude quake that sent tremors through the islands, just after lunch time. The quake set off a devastating tsunami that washed over north-east Japan, leaving everything in shambles in a few minutes.

The immediacy and intensity with which social networks responded to the situation enabled the world to learn about the disaster and the people in the eye of the storm, at a pace that was unfathomable just a decade or so ago.

housands of netizens took to the social networks and online forums to share information, communicate with friends and family, reach out to people and express solidarity with those affected by the situation.

Social Networking could have saved countless numbers of lives. Many people may have Facebook and Twitter to thank for their lives. - HEATHER wcta

In fact, Twitter posted a guide in Japanese and English to assist people under duress with tips and resources to help them survive through the situation. It also offered a list of the most widely used hashtags to tweet about the disaster, helping users search for tweets from friends and family. According to Poynter, the hashtags #tsunami and #prayforjapan were trending thousands of tweets per second in the immediate aftermath.

Facebook too had its share of conversation, but then it does not enjoy the scale of success in Japan which it does elsewhere in the world. While a lot of international conversation was being written on the walls of Facebook, the Japanese themselves were flocking to Mixi, the leading social networking site in Japan. Mixi has over 20 million users in Japan and it was the first place where the devastated people rushed to, looking for messages from people living around the epicentre of the earthquake and in the path of the gigantic tsunami waves.

Skype became the preferred tool for voice and visual communication between people inside Japan and to communicate with families living overseas.

Google, the world's most recognisable entity on the Internet, probably had the most significant response among the various online communities working to alleviate and share the pain of the Japanese.

At last count, the site was tracking about 326,300 records.

Google took it a step further by launching a crisis response page, consolidating all the tools and resources related to the crisis on one page.

Google collected these details manually into the person finder app, helping to grow the database and connect an ever-increasing number of people.

No matter the form of the response, it is becoming clear that a wired universe is weaving itself into the fabric of our evolution. If the means with which we communicate with each other in the moments that truly define our existence are any indication, social networking is undoubtedly the primary tool of long-distance communication for the current generation.

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by: HEATHER wcta

Online Learning in the Traditional Classroom | Edutopia | Diigo

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:40:42 -0000

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by: KATIE wcta

Improving School Communication with Google | Edutopia | Diigo

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:38:22 -0000

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by: KATIE wcta

Personal Learning Environment (PLE) – a new learning concept or a new learning system? — PROLEARN Academy Portal

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:27:03 -0000

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PLE's give students free rein. It helps them manage their goals, and therby control their educational destiny! It's pretty fascinating really. - HEATHER wcta

“the heart of the concept of the PLE is that it is a tool that allows a learner (or anyone) to engage in a distributed environment consisting of a network of people, services and resources. It is not just Web 2.0, but it is certainly Web 2.0 in the sense that it is (in the broadest sense possible) a read-write application.”

the integration of both formal and informal learning episodes

is that it offers a portal to the world through which learners can explore and create, according to their own interests and directions, interacting as they choose, with their friends and learning community.

“Learning becomes as much social as cognitive, as much concrete as abstract, and becomes intertwined with judgement and exploration.”

Tags: GLOBAL flat Classroom, CBP, PLE

by: HEATHER wcta

Personal Learning Environment First Person

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:05:44 -0000

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a first person narrative about Personal Learning environments for the GLOBAL FLAT CLASSROOM - HEATHER wcta

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IMPORTANT ; a personal learning environment is very important/ - HEATHER wcta

that emphasizes and

I will also tell the client that I'm trying something new so that they don't feel like an uninformed guinea pig to my learning. These experiments then become fodder for more learning. I try when I can to reflect on what I've done to see what worked well and what didn't. For example, recently I used a wiki to write a grant and right now I'm in the process of analyzing how that worked for us. I will then incorporate my reflections into the next iteration if I intend to use the learning again.

This blog is another way I process. Sometimes I put up some fairly raw thoughts (this being one of them), but I find that the feeling of having an "audience" makes me less likely to do that all the time, so I might write first in my journal to start making sense and then post here when it gets closer to being semi-articulate.

few of these in my mindmap, I realize). These are the materials that I sort of "graze" through. I have no particular objective in mind and will tend to just click through to things that interest me. When I have a specific learning objective in mind, then I use things like Google or a search of del.icio.us or technorati tags. I will often activate my network of contacts at that point, too. Again, I find that technology has enhanced this networking ability in a couple of ways. First, my network is much broader than it used to be. Through tools like LinkedIn, blogging and listservs, the number of people I "know" and from whom I can get information has really grown. The

times I have issues with being able to print or export, but since I'm usually at my computer, I live with working onscreen to review. Writing is a key way that I make sense of my world, so I have sev

Doing Something with the LearningUltimately, all of this learning needs to go somewhere. If it doesn't change what I do or how I think, I'm not sure I can say I've learned much. I'm a big experimenter, so I find that what I first tend to do in a lot of cases is find a way to do a personal learning experiment. When I was learning about blogging, for example, then I started a blog (it was an art blog, so it was less professionally risky for me, too). When I was learning about wikis, I started my Web 2.0 in Nonprofits wiki.

So What's Your PLE?OK--so that's my personal learning environment. I'd be curious to hear from others about how they've constructed their own PLEs, thoughts they have on the concept, etc. It's a topic that I think has real potential for use in nonprofits as a way to keep learning happening every day at a very low cost. But to do this, I think we have to be intentional in exploring what tools and processes are needed to put something together, which is a big reason I wanted to go through this reflection of my own practice as a way to get some ideas for how it could look. I need more than just my thoughts, though, so all feedback on this welcome.

ims' mindmap of his PLE, I first constructed my own (NOTE--Several months after publishing this post, I've redone my Mindmap using Mindomo as I had many requests for a better view of the map than what I was previously able to share. To see the full map, go here)

So all of this stuff has been going around in my head and I thought that it made sense for me to look at my own Personal Learning Environment. Inspired by Ray S

As I'm gathering information, I also need to process it. When I'm reading online materials, I've started using Diigo to highlight and take notes. This is a switch from my previous practice of using Google Notebooks, but it's working a lot better for me. I need to interact with material as I'm absorbing it in order to make it my own.

IRONY. Diigo is a very important thing for kids to do research in a PLE. - HEATHER wcta

I've also been using my Tumblr "microblog" to keep track of things that I find. There's a handy bookmarklet in my Firefox Toolbar that allows me to quickly add and annotate info into it and it's been very useful for me to start using microblogging to pull things together for later processing. I also like it for collecting quotes that catch my interest.

Social Networking and PLE's work hand in hand. Social Networks help you interact with other people, and like in this situation, keep track of research and publish different things. - HEATHER wcta