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Learn more about Twitter-talk here. Wondering about the @, #, and retweeting? This page explains it in an entertaining way. It's called Twitter for Dummies part 4. There are other parts as well.

This is a pretty cool app. I could see using this while at a concert. Some of the plug-ins offer some other options, like simultaneous searches, photo viewing, document viewing, which could be extremely useful. It really makes a phone call more interactive. Check out the article for further detail.

I liked this article, yet it is frustrating because these are all the obvious reasons are education system is so bad in the US, yet the chances of them being fixed ANYTIMe soon are slim.

I asked undergraduate students in my two classes, "This Is Your Brain on the Internet" and "Twenty-First Century Literacies" to come up with a list of skills they had mastered in my peer-driven, peer-assessed, peer-led classes they had not gained elsewhere.  We might call these skills "digital literacies."

One teacher's experience using Facebook and Twitter in the classroom.

Great ideas for Facebook and Twitter. However, these two resources are on a lengthy list of things blocked and banned by my district. A continual frustration for me as a teacher is how often decisions are made based on fear, not on policy. The district isn't afraid of the resource, they are afraid of the parent phone call.

If you haven't seen this YouTube video, you must. It is a collection of AT&T television ads from 1993 predicting the impact of future technologies on our lives. It is amazingly insightful with one exception: phone booths! Don't forget, the world wide web was in its infancy in 1993 with a minute number of sites that the general public knew little or nothing about. Anyone recognize the narrator's voice?