Environmental activists are using mobile technology to show the importance of protecting the environment and how much of an impact making smarter environmental decisions can make.
You can now get RSS feeds out of Google Search -- THIS IS GREAT!!!! Wonderful for building the PLN -- (and for watching your school name or personal name as well as research.)
Second life is a virtual online world and part of undertsanding how the world is connecting online. This blog is by Kevin Jarrett, an elementary teacher and expert in this area - we can contact him as Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Lindsay and some of the other teachers know him.
Virtual worlds are just one way people are connecting online, but a way not to miss.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Health 2.0 (as well as the closely related concept of Medicine 2.0[1]) are terms representing the possibilities between health care, eHealth and Web 2.0, and has come into use after a recent spate of articles in newspapers, and by Physicians and Medical Librarians.[2][3] A concise definition of Health 2.0 is the use of a specific set of Web tools (blogs, Podcasts, tagging, search, wikis, etc) by actors in health care including doctors, patients, and scientists, using principles of open source and generation of content by users, and the power of networks in order to personalize health care, collaborate, and promote health education.[4] A possible explanation for the reason that Health has generated its own "2.0" term are its applications across health care in general, and in particular it potential in public health promotion.
This Wikipedia entry gives more information and background about Health 2.0. It is a very helpful source and really helps you understand the use of Health 2.0 and how it involves Web 2.0
Statistics and data about the way our state is doing down and it about how much china is making with there newspapers, mobile, Magazines, TV, Internet, and Bloggers. China right now is doing better then the whole U.S everyone is doing great. There is a lot of things going on and we are about ready to go in a depression so i believe at least with the way our world is coming around.