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The age of Web2.0 allowed this amazing basketball shot to be seen around the world. This buzzer-beater shot was uploaded to the Internet and made this player and high school famous because it was watched from all around the world and even made an appearance on SportsCenter.

The Unicef Tap Project has gone to Web2.0's new technologies to gain attention and followers worldwide. Celebrities participating in the project, which sends water to people in thrid-world countries, can go on social networking sites and tell people to help out. This effectively gets attention to the project.

This group may be an interesting group to interview for Flat Classroom project - from Houston.

Got a link to this wiki from Estie Cuellar, amazing teacher who has joined in Flat Classroom this year. She says: "I would like to share something with you guys. I teach a Sports Marketing Class. I'm always looking for new and fun ways to reach the kids. Yesterday, I started my class on a comprehensive project that I'm calling, "Rock On." The goal of the project is for the students teams (all of my classes work in teams) to synthesize what they've learned in class so far (they've learned the marketing mix, target marketing, positioning, segmenting, and the 7-key functions of marketing) and plan a 20 city tour for their band. I found the project from a "Best Practices" book that Jeff McCauley of The Marketing Teacher compiled from marketing teachers and sent out as a PDF a couple of years ago. I have modified the original project to utilize Web2.0 technologies." Interesting ideas - wish I could teach marketing!

What is cloud computing? What are the differences between cloud computing, web2.0 and the internet?

Web2.0 education tools

Toolkit A - Z. Looking for a tool to use? Wondering what to try next? Thinking about possibilities?

A list of tools that may be used in the classroom. Most would be considered as Web2.0 tools. This list may provoke an idea or two for a Flat Classroom video.

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.""

This article talks about how a video channel uses live streams online to give video coverage of street paintings being created and presented. 

New technology at the Vail Mountain skiing lodge allows for people to share almost everything they do onto the Internet. Equipped with Wi-Fi access, Vail photographers ready to take pictures, and a tiny camera attached to helmets, people skiing or snowboarding at Vail can upload nearly all the activities they do during the day.

This week the Copyright Alert System is being put into effect on the Internet. The system is used as an alert to companies about copyright infringement on their websites. Now when people on the Internet attempt to copy and paste a company's work onto their own work, they will receive a series of warnings. Media companies will observe online traffic and report to Internet providers if they think work has been downloaded illegally. The person who did this will receive up to six warnings and after that service providers can stop their Internet flow or give them up to a $35 fine. This relates to the sharing of information through Web 2.0 because people's work that they upload can be stolen or plagiarized, and this is helping to prevent that by discouraging the stealing of work.

This shows the top 102 web 2.0 tools chosen by people. 

New technology has allowed students to take MOOCs, which are massive open online courses, for college credit. However, colleges have to make sure that students taking the course away from campus and laptops are not cheating on the final exam. To do this they developed software that colleges can use to monitor students through webcams, screen sharing, and high-speed Internet connections. They can also check out their photo IDs, signatures, and typing styles.