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This article from the Daily Nation goes over the fact that Google is becoming increasingly large. Google now offers a service that competes with Skype's long distance calling. The apps that Google has makes it more necessary than just an E-mail. Google maps has also made it very hard for other companies to compete with Google.

TedTalk about ordinary people in Israel & Iran using social networking to counter government blustering on war.

This article describes the policy, explaining the purpose, background and applicabilities.

This article is about people who promote and criticize social networking, as it can represent government organizations but can also criticized in the areas of national security and foreign relations.

Radio news story describing a regular Saturday Twitter discussion amongst educators from around the world.

http://youtu.be/RIMB9Kx18hw Why you should hyperlink from your wiki pages.....

Intriguing video about the use of "smart" mobile devices in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake in Haiti.

This is an article I found on how workflow software has decreased the amount of hours employees have to work.

Hey my mom and I were discussing this just a few weeks ago!

Maybe?

This is how movements now happen! Redefining Beautiful: One Girl at a Time has girls not wearing makeup on Tuesdays. T-shirts and, of course, social media, characterize what these girls are doing (and the guys who support them.) For pundits who think social media is a negative, this is an example of how this generation redefines the world using social networking to spread statements of a generation more quickly than books can be printed.

Read about this trend. It would make a GREAT movie.

Personal Learning Environments through social media/networking

Social Media Process (photo)...shows the different ways that social networks are linked together.

Website about using cell phones in school - will be topic of a great movie for someone on Flat Classroom.

Information collected by Karen Montgomery on using cell phones in learning. Some great resources are here.

Great resources for people inventing things.

Great article on the technologies that will change everything. Wonderful for your movies.

This group may be an interesting group to interview for Flat Classroom project - from Houston.

Got a link to this wiki from Estie Cuellar, amazing teacher who has joined in Flat Classroom this year. She says: "I would like to share something with you guys. I teach a Sports Marketing Class. I'm always looking for new and fun ways to reach the kids. Yesterday, I started my class on a comprehensive project that I'm calling, "Rock On." The goal of the project is for the students teams (all of my classes work in teams) to synthesize what they've learned in class so far (they've learned the marketing mix, target marketing, positioning, segmenting, and the 7-key functions of marketing) and plan a 20 city tour for their band. I found the project from a "Best Practices" book that Jeff McCauley of The Marketing Teacher compiled from marketing teachers and sent out as a PDF a couple of years ago. I have modified the original project to utilize Web2.0 technologies." Interesting ideas - wish I could teach marketing!

Important to include twitter as part of what you're reporting.

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.)

It is important for twitter, a microblogging service, to be discussed in wireless connectivity, virtual communications, web 2.0, and personal learning networks with at least a mention.

Cool article on twitter tools and plug ins for twitter. These help us see into what can be done with twitter, the cool tool that is really a customized, unique search engine of people.