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summary about the book.

" Thomas Friedman's examination of the influences shaping business and competition in a technology-fueled global environment is a call to action for governments, businesses and individuals who must stay ahead of these trends in order to remain competitive."

This website gives you a brief summery of chapters 1- 15. I am in chapter 4 group D. If you are in my group please reply.

This is an outline of an eBook series. It has summary of essays mention in the book, and it is a very good source for workflow in the health world.

This is how movements now happen! Redefining Beautiful: One Girl at a Time has girls not wearing makeup on Tuesdays. T-shirts and, of course, social media, characterize what these girls are doing (and the guys who support them.) For pundits who think social media is a negative, this is an example of how this generation redefines the world using social networking to spread statements of a generation more quickly than books can be printed.

Read about this trend. It would make a GREAT movie.

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!

Google sites is the best thing to hit the web since Google Apps. For a long time I'd been wanting a way to have a more private area, where others could still contribute without having to give them full administrative privileges to my domain - and Sites fits the bill and then some. I've used it to support many varied activities including private notes and conversations with clients, keeping track of my home schooled children's assignments and homework, letting them create their own web pages, collaborating with others on content for books and engineering designs, and even sharing pictures of our new dog with my family. It's easier and faster than a wiki, I can control who can see or contribute to a given site, and it's just downright fun to use!

I have only just became aware of this Google service. Apparently it is very easy to exchange data from one google application to another google application. Levels of control can be given. I saw this used extensively for curriculum co-ordination in a failing Bronx school in New York by an Australian who now is back in Australia and continuing the co-ordination. The world is surely getting flatter?

Award winning wiki page for the first project about virtual communications. Excellent videos and wiki. Nearly perfect.

Virtual communications give us a way to communicate with people around the world. This wiki won the award for best wiki, and also included award winning videos. The team mates were mentioned by Tom Friedman in his book, The World is Flat.

Colleges like Yale and MIT are sharing their courses with "open courseware" - this is a very important part of sharing and how things are changing. People can literally attend colleges without paying (of course, they don't get the "credit." But this is part of building a personal learing network and how people are connecting online like never before.

Yale is joining the open bandwagon and now has some more open courses including courses on "The American Novel Since 1945" "introduction to Greek History, Civil War History, France history since 1871, Milton, physics and engineering. There are great college level resources becoming available. There are also many audio books and online podcasts here.

Looking back, this is the blog post for me that changed it all - Thursday, October 12, 2006, I reflected on my students writing about Thomas Friedman's book with some great responses -- but Julie Lindsay responded with an idea to join our classrooms together to study these trends and thus, Flat Classroom was born.

World change starts with educated children! Organisation that provides books and schools in many countries

Recently released Horizon Report 2010, from the New Media Consortium and Educause. Emerging Technologies: 1-2 years: Mobile Computing and Open Content 2-3 years: Simple Augmented Reality and Electronic Books 4-5 yersr: Gesture-based Computing and Visual Data Analysis

Amazing Open Library for all to enjoy.

Application lets smart phone users send a message and a link to a map marking their location.

Glympse, a Seattle-area startup, is the latest in the field. Its application, also called Glympse, lets smart phone users send a message and a link to a map marking their location to anyone in their address book.

Excellent overview of the flattners with Thomas Friedman.

This video from Thomas Friedman gives an excellent overview of the topics he is discussing in his landmark book. Am showing this to my class this week.

In Friedman's book (p 191) he talks about how Napster was perhaps "the most popular website ever created. In less than a year, it went from zero to 60 million visitors a month." This article has a great picture and says that Napster, "redefine the Internet, the music industry and the way we all think about intellectual property. "

Background on Napster - important for virtual communications group.

politics and workflow

This article is a helpful reminder of some concepts found in Thomas Friedman's book, "A World is Flat" and in social networking.