If I was someone who gave lots of talks at ed-tech conferences about "Web 2.0" and such, I'd definitely add a piece about the success of FiveThirtyEight.com. Since over three and a half million people visited the site last month (beating out established blogs like Talking Points Memo, for example), there is a pretty good chance you've already seen it.
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Twitter will leap into instant-messaging world with new app: report * The Register - 0 views
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This article discusses how twitter is allowing instant messaging to become even easier online through twitter.
Videoconferencing - 0 views
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This article discusses what video conferencing is, how it is used, and the benefits that video conferencing brings to the world.
U.S. H1-B Visa Program May Help Companies Outsource, Offshore Jobs - 0 views
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This article talks about how some companies are shipping people from other countries to America in search for the cheapest labor possible.
Knocked Down by Globalization, Newton, Iowa Rebuilds - 0 views
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Talks about how a small company in Iowa wants to keep their labor local rather than using workers from other parts of the world.
India's Call Centers - 1 views
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This article gives examples of globalization and outsourcing by talking about how Indian workers in call centers take calls from around the world and are required to master British or American accents.
Internet Phone Calls - VoIP Telephony - Voice over Internet - 0 views
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"How does IP Telephony (VoIP) work VoIP allows anyone using the Internet, with a PC having a sound card, a speaker and microphone, iniciate calls from his computer to reach far away phones or another Computer...at lower rates."
News: Wireless technology | Association for Progressive Communications - 0 views
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This article states how wireless technology is used in different parts of the world and different projects that are trying to get more wireless technology in some smaller areas.
Stumbling Blocks: Playing It Too Safe Online Will Make You Sorry | Edutopia - 0 views
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How teachers are working around overprotective content filters to use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom.
Tuttle SVC: 2008 Winners: FiveThirtyEight.com - 0 views
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Read this if you're covering politics and take a look at the fivethrigtyeight.com blog.
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Tom HOffman shares some of the background story of fivethirtyeight.com - a great story of collaboration and work and how "no names" become somebody with hard work, intelligence, persistence, and a commitment to "do it right" sans an agenda.
Virtual communication - 0 views
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Virtual communication is breaking down barriers that have separated people for centuries. A new wave of technology is exploding into society. What other device could permit a student in a rural community of south Georgia,Los Angeles, or Missouri in the United States of America to connect with a student in metropolitan Bangladesh, Australia, China, Austria, or Qatar?
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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.
Yale Open Courses: The New Lineup | Open Culture - 0 views
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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.
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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.
Children's Way - Teaching Kids and Parents Internet Safety - 0 views
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Great place to teach digital citizenship for students in elementary ages. Schools can sign up for accounts. Excellent place to evaluate as part of how the www is changing the world and how information is moving between children.
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I highly recommend that elementary and middle schools at least sign up for a school code for woogi world - this is a great tool suggested by Hoover City schools for teaching digital citizenship. My daughter (my intrepid tester of all kid virtual worlds) loves it and says she thinks it is great for kids.
Google Mobile | SMS for your phone - 0 views
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How you can use SMS from your cell phone. Additionally, those who do not have cell phones can use the cell phone simulator to practice these terms: define, etc.
QR-Code Reader & Software - Mobile Barcodes - 0 views
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This is the best information I've seen on QR Codes readers including links and instructions for how to do this.
Videojug - Get Good At Life. - 0 views
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1000s of videos, articles, answers & people, here to help you. You can do anything & Videojug will show you how - it's all free, so get involved and get good!
Radio-frequency identification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.
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Most RFID tags contain at least two parts. One is an integrated circuit for storing and processing information, modulating and demodulating a radio-frequency (RF) signal, and other specialized functions. The second is an antenna for receiving and transmitting the signal.
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Rfid is Radio-frequency identification. This article tells what these chips do, what kind of stuff they are in, and how affective they are.
Online international collaberation - 0 views
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How open sources allow businesses to communicate more easy.
Audrain Medical Center Puts Healthcare in the Hands of Patients with Smartphone App : e... - 0 views
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This is discussing how more people are beginning to use their smartphones for medical research. There is a new app called iTriage that lets people research their symptoms and helps them find medical providers from where ever you are.
Globalization on carrers - 0 views
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This site explains how companies are exporting more of their work. Also states that in recent studies, over 2 million workers in the U.S have lost their jobs due to business closures.
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