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"Rajasekaran and colleagues have developed a real-time monitoring system for patients."

Consumer Health Informatics

great image

How social networking can change the way things are taught.

From Angela Maiers. Gary's social media count is an embeddable page that shows you how fast things are growing and going in the social media world.

great graph to embed on the wiki page about how the world is connecting online.

Fascinating use of social network - Orkut and how much it is used in Brazil.

Orkut is the most widely used website in Brazil -- and holds the record as having the highest percentage of use of any website in any country. Orkut is Google's social network and is also very popular in India, Pakistan, and Brazil.

The next evolution of connecting the world online - a great topic for a video.

Would love to see us look into 3D learning as well - from an older article in 1997.

this is another handy website, although its mainly on employment and wages being affected by technology, but i suggest giving it a go.

Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.

Offline software programs are connecting online.

This is last year's page. This is a good explanation of Virtual communication. this is specifically the common forms of virtual communication

This was talking about virtual communication and what it is. It was saying how it is used in everyday life and how people use it. By talking to someone over the internet that's in a distant location is virtual communication.

It is important for twitter, a microblogging service, to be discussed in wireless connectivity, virtual communications, web 2.0, and personal learning networks with at least a mention.

Cool article on twitter tools and plug ins for twitter. These help us see into what can be done with twitter, the cool tool that is really a customized, unique search engine of people.

Businesses see that the way to influence education is to provide meaningful, cool video for school children. This project with students shows how education and teaching can change in a new way. Kids and teachers are connecting directly to companies and one another in cool projects like this.

Travelocity has worked to create a course on carbon offsets and wants help naming their eco-bunnies. This looks to be something fascinating for elementary teachers. Would love to hear what you think?

This is an example of social entrepreneurship and a new way that people are connecting online. This is a great organization (Discovery - discovery channel, etc.) and they have a great program.

My Dad has diabetes as did my grandfather. This is a great program and discovery does things right -- please consider letting your students join this great event. "Discovery Education has launched a program for high school health/science teachers designed to help educate students about Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. The site includes lesson plans (coming soon), lots of videos and multimedia interactives on digestion, blood glucose and diabetes. To recognize World Diabetes Day on November 14, all students with Type 1 diabetes are encouraged to create videos to "Shout Out" about diabetes and tell their story. For each video submitted, Novo Nordisk will make a donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to help fund research leading to a cure for Type 1 diabetes. Plus, each student who submits a video will receive a free Discovery DVD. "

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.

12 second TV is in alpha and looks to be the twitter version for video.

New tool for connecting the world - the video version of twitter.