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Article describes several tools that can be used to tell a story.

What is a "story" here consists of more than one type of media (images + text, audio + images, etc) that are assembled on the web, and can be presented on the web or embedded into other web sites.

This morning San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom announced his bid for California Governor via Twitter,

misuse of twiitter at a telephone company Australia

Eduverse website for Flat Classrooms session in Second Life coming April 21, 2009 where Vcki Davis and Julie Lindsay will be interviewed!

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.

When does sharing about one's personal life cross the line and become too much information?

Twitter, Facebook and other similar online services are making it easier than ever for people to share their thoughts with others. But the obsession many people have for posting updates also raises the question: When does sharing about one's personal life cross the line and become too much information?

When a free web service called WolframAlpha launches in the coming days, the general public will get to try a "computational knowledge engine" that has had technology insiders buzzing because of its oracle-like ability to spit out answers and make calculations.

Unlike Google's traditional search results, the spreadsheet experiment, called "Google Squared", doesn't simply show a set of web links related to a search request. Instead, it fishes through Google's massive database to organize pertinent facts and other content in rows and columns.

iLike is also rolling out a platform that will allow artists to create their own iPhone applications, which can include dynamically updated photos, music, blog posts, and other content (

E-Learning Journeys: Blog post answering questions about being a flat classroom

An excellent example of a project developed by teachers after attending the Flat Classroom workshop at NECC 2008 Ozlinks is a collaborative project between Mrs Knight's Year 7 class at St Joseph's College Mildura, Victoria, Australia students and Mrs Peter's Year 7 class in Chehalem Valley Middle School, Newburg, Oregon, USA Coordinated by Mrs Elliott - Mildura, Victoria, Australia

Instead, the site processes your natural-language query against its database of facts that have been gathered, fact-checked, and organized by Wolfram Alpha staff, according to The New York Times.

he said he was testing how our globalised, increasingly internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news. His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked.

Best practice final wiki for the NetGenEd project

Australian article give some background on the web browser and prediction of what may evolve in the near future.

Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee wrote his original proposal for a better kind of linked information system.

Australian politician is providing a mechanism to given input to various political things of interest.

A "Public Sphere" is a space that "…through the vehicle of public opinion it puts the state in touch with the needs of society" [2]. This kind of engagement in public policy is a great way to represent different views and harness a broad range of expertise, particularly on topical issues of the day.

Practical tips on how a mobile device can be used in education.

Thirty-Nine Interesting Ways* to use your Pocket Video Camera

An article that may give some ideas of using a mobile device in education.

education researchers at The University of Nottingham believe it is time that phone bans were reassessed - because mobile phones can be a powerful learning aid, they say.

The Elluminate Teacher Certification Program is designed to help teachers acquire the skills and knowledge needed to teach and learn online. Participants will learn how to use Elluminate Live! to deliver interactive, engaging online learning experiences for K-12 students. The program requires participants to demonstrate a superior command of the use of the Elluminate Live! moderator tools and feature set. Additionally, participants will learn to apply those tools and techniques to create learner centric online classrooms that will increase student achievement and satisfaction. The Elluminate Teacher Certification Program is for anyone, not just Elluminate customers, who wants to excel in the virtual classroom. No prior Elluminate product purchase is necessary. UCSD Extension Education is offering 2 units of credit for completion of the certification.

Excellent overview of Thomas Friedman's lecture at MIT which gives essential information on the history of globalization as written by a tenth grader. This is excellent writing and a nice overview of what he says in the fifty minute video. (She also embedded the video.) Excellent work. Miller also writes for Terry Freedman out of the UK, in a column called "Ask Miller" and I think her writing skills have been honed and improved as she has written for Terry as a ninth grader. She is a product also of the flat world as she has worked to write in a Google Doc for a person across the Atlantic Ocean!