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"..... it's becoming clear that relying on Twitter for news is making me, well, an uninformed idiot. It's gotten extreme enough, that I've considered resubscribing to a print daily paper to make sure I'm forcibly injecting a diet of un-Sarah-Lacy-curated news into my life. That's certainly a ramification of Twitter I never considered a few years ago: An actual yearning for East Coast media elite gatekeepers telling me what I need to know."

Unhangout is an open source platform for running large scale online un-conferences. We use Google Hangouts to create as many small sessions as needed, and help users find others with shared interests. Think of it as a classroom with an infinite number of breakout sessions. Each event has a landing page, which we call the lobby. When participants arrive, they can see who else is there and chat with each other. The hosts can do a video welcome and introduction that gets streamed into the lobby. Participants then break out into smaller sessions (up to 10 people per session) for in-depth conversations, peer-to-peer learning, and collaboration on projects. UnHangouts are community-based learning instead of top-down information transfer.

"Earlier this month, the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) released new figures on the state of the Internet. They revealed that by the end of this year, there will be 3 billion Internet users, a substantial fraction of which hail from developing nations. That's not to say the number of connected people in the U.S. isn't also growing. In fact the UN says the number of online citizens in developed nations is reaching saturation. The Connectivist presents some of the ITU report's findings."

Links to some excellent resources that teachers could use to improve their use of educational technology. Topics include Twitter, un-conference material, tech tools and developing your own PLN.

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