the Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition, is the second in a new series of regional and sector-based reports, and examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative expression within the environment of pre-college education.
Are you LinkedIn? Do your students Tweet during a field trip? If you're like many NSTA members, the answer is "yes" with a caveat: Not in school.
Excellent article featuring James gates, includes brief info about Flat Classroom and use of social media tools
xamines the possible ways terrorists could use mobile and Web technologies such as the Global Positioning System, digital maps, and Twitter mashups to plan and execute terrorist attacks.
"Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter,"
report details of a recent earthquake in Los Angeles and by activists at the Republican National Convention.
"Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audiences," the report said.
Interesting article w/ new term "hacktivists" -- politically motivated hackers. That is a new term.
Twitter is written up in this report as being used by extremist groups of all kinds "socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others...."
Why not just say everyone uses twitter? (Well, everyone DOESN"T use twitter but it can mobilize a lot of people in a pretty short time.)
Facilitated by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay, this session is a virtual link-up with the Flat Classroom Conference in Doha, Qatar and Educon 2.1 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. This event is also our official kick-off event for our www.FutureofEducation.com interview series, sponsored by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and with support from Elluminate!
Chris Smith 'Shambles Guru' and a set of pics taken during the Flat Classroom interview special in SL on international schools island.
More details at http://bit.ly/flatclassroom
This is tells us what exactly telemedicine is, it is technologies that exchange health information and provide health care service for people anywhere they are.