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Cool website for digital storytelling.

Incredible story of how cell phones will be used to diagnose disease - a PERFECT movie!

Wow!!! Using cell phone technology, high powered medical diagnosis and lab work can be provided remotely through cameras. This is what letting students work with cell phones can do as this is Daniel Fletcher and his undergraduates at the University of California worked to create a mobile diagnosis tool from cell phones. THIS is innovation. Harness the untapped power of student creativity and innovation and use it as a learning process. DO IT NOW!!

Educational Leadership article from ASCD

This is an outstanding web page from the first flat classroom project on Globalization and Outsourcing.

Excellent page and representative of very good work on Flat Classroom. Some over-long hyperlinks, but otherwise, a nice site.

GREAT site to take a look and understand how Web 2.0 figures into the elections.

This website had a TON of hits this past month -- in the millions -- 3 people and some spreadsheets did this. (See Tom Hoffman's post for more on it.) I think this is something that the students of the Flat Classroom Project will need to integrate into their work.

This is about the first website used as World Wide Web.

"CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is where it all began in March 1989. A physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, wrote a proposal for information management showing how information could be transferred easily over the Internet by using hypertext, the now familiar point-and-click system of navigating through information. The following year, Robert Cailliau, a systems engineer, joined in and soon became its number one advocate. The idea was to connect hypertext with the Internet and personal computers, thereby having a single information network to help CERN physicists share all the computer-stored information at the laboratory. Hypertext would enable users to browse easily between texts on web pages using links."

Welcome to info.cern.ch The website of the world's first-ever web server 1990 was a momentous year in world events. In February, Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. In April, the space shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. And in October, Germany was reunified.

This is a website for graphic designers. Kind of a social network and kind of a game- here is how the new creative design landscape is evolving.

This web page shows the history of blogging and what it could evolve into.

Second life allows you to build an online world. You can either look like yourself, or make your avatar look completely different. It is kind of like you are traveling around the world, and do anything you want, and communicate while you're doing it.

The NCSA is a great stepping stone to the evolution of Web 2.0.

This is another web sites point of view on globalization.

Brief overview and introduction to globalization

Teachers have a different standard. It is fascinating to read this newspaper article and also the responses. Our students on Flat Classroom project and Digiteen will be reviewing this information because teachers are held to a higher standard online.

Read this to understand that teachers don't really have a personal life online.

This is an official government site that gives stats on technology in schools.

Some statistics about the usage of technology and internet in public schools.

"In Few Years, Social Network Data May Be Used in Underwriting"

this is a website I found that contains virtual conferences and shows us how the world is changing.

students and employment with workflow

"Mobile technology is exactly what the name implies - technology that is portable. Examples of mobile IT devices include: laptop and netbook computers palmtop computers or personal digital assistants mobile phones and 'smart phones' global positioning system (GPS) devices wireless debit/credit card payment terminals Mobile devices can be enabled to use a variety of communications technologies such as: wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) - a type of wireless local area network technology Bluetooth - connects mobile devices wirelessly 'third generation' (3G), global system for mobile communications (GSM) and general packet radio service (GPRS) data services - data networking services for mobile phones dial-up services - data networking services using modems and telephone lines virtual private networks - secure access to a private network It is therefore possible to network the mobile device to a home office or the internet while travelling. Benefits Mobile computing can improve the service you offer your customers. For example, when meeting with customers you could access your customer relationship management system - over the internet - allowing you to update customer details whilst away from the office. Alternatively, you can enable customers to pay for services or goods without having to go to the till. For example, by using a wireless payment terminal diners can pay for their meal without leaving their table. More powerful solutions can link you directly into the office network while working off site, for instance to access your database or accounting systems. For example, you could: set up a new customer's account check prices and stock availability place an order online This leads to great flexibility in working - for example, enabling home working, or working while travelling. Increasingly, networking 'hot spots' are being provided in public areas that allow connection back to the office network or the internet.

gives examples of what types of products are mobile and the networks that they work on.

ASSIST's most powerful application to date is called Tactical Ground Reporting System or TIGR, which is being used by soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. This helps the soldier be able to get the information to his commander and then to the head person to decide if they will need to make a move on the threat.