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Changing pictures and avatars - this author offers insight into this and why students may be changing their picture so much.

I really enjoyed intrepid teacher's thoughts about changing your avatar and self expression. I think this is very insightful into what is in the minds of our students and children. I don't think I change my picture much as it reminds me that I have 40 pounds to lose.

Dropbox is an online storage gallery where you can store documents, pictures, videos, music, etc.

i got a picture to go along with an article that one of my group members wrote.

Mobile barcodes are a cool way that cell phones are now being used - integrating pictures with SMS - it is called MMS.

20% of Teens participate in sexting or sending nude pictures via text message.

This issue is a huge one for students and minors who have future implications for this practice.

New technology at the Vail Mountain skiing lodge allows for people to share almost everything they do onto the Internet. Equipped with Wi-Fi access, Vail photographers ready to take pictures, and a tiny camera attached to helmets, people skiing or snowboarding at Vail can upload nearly all the activities they do during the day.

Instagram is on Android with support for Facebook Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare but not Flickr. Increasingly, pictures are being shared due to the proliferation of websites like pinterest. It is a free app and a great way to share photographs from your phone.

Adobe Photoshop is where you can use online tools to edit all sorts of propeties in pictures. You can also download the actual program to have access to more tools.

I added a picture of the google logo to our project.

I added a picture to our group's project

I added a image of google on our project.

My topic talks about internet websites such as Facebook, so i decided to post a picture of Facebook.

this is a picture of Obama using twitter on his computer

i found a picture of globalization that went well with my project.

This article explains the differences between Web 1.0 (push), Web 2.0 (sharing), and Web 3.0 (live). Matthew Hodgson does a good job of illustrating this with pictures and examples.

Some people love the iPad while others don't. Read this reflection to get the full picture.

A picture of an american using bluetooth.

HSBC Bank signing on as the sponsor of the Flat Classroom Conference.

So excited about HSBC bank signing as the major sponsor of the Flat Classroom conference - major kudos to Julie Lindsay and Qatar Academy!! It makes me exceptionally proud to see the STUDENTS in this picture as this conference is about reengineering the place of students in educational conferences and making them the part of the future of education. If you want to attend, sign up now, as the spaces will be limited!

Google sites is the best thing to hit the web since Google Apps. For a long time I'd been wanting a way to have a more private area, where others could still contribute without having to give them full administrative privileges to my domain - and Sites fits the bill and then some. I've used it to support many varied activities including private notes and conversations with clients, keeping track of my home schooled children's assignments and homework, letting them create their own web pages, collaborating with others on content for books and engineering designs, and even sharing pictures of our new dog with my family. It's easier and faster than a wiki, I can control who can see or contribute to a given site, and it's just downright fun to use!

I have only just became aware of this Google service. Apparently it is very easy to exchange data from one google application to another google application. Levels of control can be given. I saw this used extensively for curriculum co-ordination in a failing Bronx school in New York by an Australian who now is back in Australia and continuing the co-ordination. The world is surely getting flatter?

Cool cool way to embed web browser pages into a web page.

Bitty Browser is an incredibly cool and useful tool. It allows you to embed a website inside another web page - so if you want to embed a web page for people to use in your wiki, just use the bitty browser. You can even create up to 100 feeds and make a mini RSS reader for education news for those teachers you KNOW will NEVER use RSS. Fascinating tool.

QR codes create a hyperlink between a picture in the real world and th eonline world -- this is called mobile tagging and the act of linking is called a hardlink.

QR Codes are a tool that is becoming used to link moble and handheld users with the web in a process that is called making a hardlink or mobile tagging.

In Friedman's book (p 191) he talks about how Napster was perhaps "the most popular website ever created. In less than a year, it went from zero to 60 million visitors a month." This article has a great picture and says that Napster, "redefine the Internet, the music industry and the way we all think about intellectual property. "

Background on Napster - important for virtual communications group.