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.

iTrail application for the iPhone.

iTrail lets the iphone track your gps coordinates while doing physical activity. Still not entirely accurate, this runs best on the iPhone 3G, one of those things that will "get there" eventually.

Another 3d virtual world

A new 3D world to explore. I believe we're going to see an increasing proliferation of these. Linden Labs has had the monopoly (and still does), however, there are some key areas that they have not listened to their users - with the teen and lack of an educational grid as an example.

Great resources for people inventing things.

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

Second life has upped their prices this week. This is why I couldn't buy land - I budgeted at old prices but don't have the money to create my student island now. Of course, I'd wait until this past week to buy the island, but I wasn't ready yet!

Second Life is a virtual world -- the prices just went up this week.

when you talk about web 3d and how the world is changin as it relates to virtual worlds, you should include this link.

Link your virtual worlds together with Myrl. Fascinating tool and interrelated with 3 d environments.

Google enabled RSS feeds for Google Searches Now.

You can now get RSS feeds out of Google Search -- THIS IS GREAT!!!! Wonderful for building the PLN -- (and for watching your school name or personal name as well as research.)

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!

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.)

Excellent article on Gmail Contacts and how it can be accessed separately.

Page for Mozilla Minefield - alpha release of Firefox 4.

Firefox minefield is the alpha version of Firefox 4 -- early testers report a very fast web browser -- but warning - IT IS STILL IN ALPHA!

Cool visual search engine

Important article to read about how a virtual avatar murder has consequences in the physical world.

Excellent article on cyberbullying and an example of a girl who was harrassed online and killed herself. This sort of thing is tragic and we should consider what we think aboutinternet harrassment penalties, particularly against children. There are mention of several websites including one I'd never heard of called CyberBully Alert.

You should consider mentioning cyberbullying as an issue. This might also be a topic of interest to push forward for a social entreprenuership video.

The history of how google has looked.

The Wayback machine used to search for Google - see how Google has looked through the years.

Fascinating use of google search.

Fascinating way that you can search who said what -- this takes the US presidential candidates but you can use it to compare other people as well. This is fascinating.

The Ning for the upcoming conference in January -- it is REALLY Happening - I'm so excited!

The conference in January.