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New comic making web app which also has an i-pod compatible app. This lets you combine drawings, photos, and ready to use artwork to create caricatures. This is great. You can also mash up regular backgrounds with caricatures in the foreground.

Love how Tara in Bangkok, Thailand used Wordle to introduce books and then mashed up the words in voicethread. What a fascinatingly creative way to use these tools!

If you want to know how one of the pro's makes and publishes podcasts, here is Wesley Fryer's how to - a must read for anyone working in this area of technology.

While this article starts out about a lawfirm in Birmingham UK that is going to "track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online" it becomes an amazingly poignant article on the very nature of the Internet today and the push pull between anonymous commenting and accountability of the commenter. Push pull between free speech and online identity and brand protection. One person in this article claims that this sort of thing is the sign that the "wild west" of the INternet is coming to an end. Oh dear, I hope someone invents a new one if somehow anonymous commenters are now going to risk such! Also love the article's discussion of the Streisand effect wherein Barbara protested the sharing of some photos of her eroding beachfront which caused a stir and more people looking at the photos than if she had left it alone. This article is going to be a must read for Flat Classroom students and would be great for college-level discussions as well.

Important article that would make a great video story for someone predicting how the Internet is changing - with commenters being hunted down by companies!

"Beware of the 21st learning zealots. Frightened of a more globalized, competitive, fast-paced future, they want to retreat back into the womb of soft student-centred pedagogy, classroom info-tainment, and nurturing the self-esteem of students. The Internet and social media are the latest gizmos and innovations to be used to "stay relevant" and keep the kids happy in schools."

This perspective is worth considering to see if it holds any water.

Some teachers in my Flat Classroom Certified Teacher Class are talking about this.  Looks interesting.

Interesting service that pulls together all of your networks and posts to them. Just remember that Facebook and some other services make posts from third party services to lower priority and they don't go on as many streams.Interesting service.

Describes importance of Open Source softwares

How open sources allow businesses to communicate more easy.

this explains what a podcast is and how it works

explains what blogging is and how it works

Great presentation from project red. See slide for the "which technology practices improve learning the most." #1 Technology is integrated into EVERY intervention class.

"While Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google remain mega-leaders, Internet companies from China and Russia, like Baidu, Tencent, and Yandex, are becoming more successful and influential. According to Meeker, 81% of users of the top global Internet properties are outside the U.S. "

Great, basic ideas here for digital storytelling. Guidelines, steps, etc.

launched the world's first university elective course focusing on internet and medicine for medical, dentistry and pharmacy students

this tells me how web 2.0 is used in art

using Web 2.0 for arts