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This is information on QR codes for Marketing but in this there is potential for schools - particularly ubiquitous "hardlinks" between educational experiences like museums.

As you think about QR codes, this list of 20 marketing uses of QR codes is a place to start.

This software turns your webcam into a QR code reader. From Mr. Robbo the PE Geek.

QR Codes and hardlinking are one of the most important trends to understand

This used to be mogulus - you can have a full tv channel here. My understanding is that you can stream from your cellphone here.

20% of Teens participate in sexting or sending nude pictures via text message.

This issue is a huge one for students and minors who have future implications for this practice.

Tons of free content for your cell phone including ringtones.

I love this reflection from the flat classroom conference. This is my favorite movie that I like to share.

This is what happens when students connect online. They learn to trust people.

The progression to help students meet face to face. Steve Says: "The Project alone is already unique and very amazing considering the fact that we are actually working together with students around the world with the help of technology. So what better way to finish the project off by actually working with the people we have been working with online."

For the NetGenEd project, students at Suffern Middle school created a video to challenge and deliver the keynote for the project. It is amazing the script that these students wrote for the project!

These students from a middle school in New Jersey shared wrote and created this keynote address for NetGenEd 2009, a Flat Classroom project. It is phenomenal.

iPhone programming as part of a college computer science curriculum - ABSOLUTELY! Congratulations Dean Shareski!

iPhone programming is making its way into colleges

I can't tell if this event will be online too, but if you're in London - it is a good one. Love the description and appreciate Terry Freedman pointing me to it: "many authoritarian governments are now also beginning to exploit cyberspace for their own purposes; some of them appear to be succeeding in subverting the internet's democratising potential. We may have overestimated the internet's ability to bring change and underestimated the role that political, social and cultural forces play in determining how new technologies are being adopted. Could the internet actually inhibit rather than empower civil society? Join Evgeny Morozov as he outlines the dramatically different ways in which the internet's potential can be utilised by citizens and regimes."

Understand that some countries are using the INternet to suppress conversation, not allow it.

Julie Lindsay is in China and so I've been looking up information about their system. It is very different, but this is a fascinating listing of items about China and their system of education.

The schools in Iowa gave up their proposal to jam mobile phone signals (it is against the law.) Dr. Scott McLeod shares his communications with the interim superintendant.

This is upsetting. Flash mobs have traditionally been a lot of fun -- now they are violent teenage rampages. Some cities are outlawing them!

Lots of my friends here on this agenda -- @Parentalla (Aparna Vashisht) {Her mother took us around India and is a delightful person} Kevin Jarrett @kjarrett, Lisa Nielsen @InnovativeEdu Mary Beth Hertz @mbteach Chris Lehman - @chrislehmann to name a few. So much fun! Also, my friend George Haines has his 8th grade students speaking - looking for them on the program as well. Of course Ivanka Trump and Anne Curry are also on the list. Have fun and good luck everyone!

Share this with your students who love video games. I love how Alfred shares his thoughts on the transition from gamer to game designer. This is a huge market especially as education moves to gaming platforms as well.

This blog post is from one of Microsoft's bloggers and helps students understand what is required to create video games versus just playing them. Fits in well with Flat Classroom.

A website that many teachers are using to match up with other classrooms and skype and videoconference between them. Several teachers in Maine are doing this that I know of including Cherrie MacInnes. Great place to go!

Article written in India newspaper about the Flat Classroom and Flat Classroom conference held in Mumbai. I loved this quote: "To become what the project aspires won't actualise without delivering on imperatives of access and inclusion. Consequently, the idea 'How can I include those who are not like me' underlined most discussions at the conference. There, says Davis, Web2.0, far from being a cultural flattener, is "a culture enhancing tool. It lets students who don't travel, travel virtually, and makes them see where cultural disconnects are happening." For a first-hand experience of these gaps, participants visited Akanksha and Aseema schools that reach out to the underprivileged. One Australian participant came back and told her remote virtual classmates: "Today I stepped through the gaps between the rich and the poor, from Aseema to ASB.""

Children have more access to cell phones than "books on paper." My answer - redefine books and deliver all educational content via handheld. Stop defining the future of our children with the tools of our past.

So, now Georgia funds "cyber schools" at $5800 per student. I wonder, however, if this is the best way. Why does it have to be either or - why can't it be "this and." Kids should be able to have regular school and choose an extra class that interests them at night. I'm not really a fan of this method that pits "cyber school" against "normal school" - we really need blended environments.