Flat Classroom Project

Most new cars are now fitted with event recorders similar to aircraft black boxes. The data collected could be used to assess how well a car has been driven, how far and, in the event of a crash, what factors contributed to the accident.

Lenovo Netbooks to be given to Grade 9-12 students next year in NSW Australia, along with upgraded wireless networking.

Australian focus, NSW. Wireless rollout, laptop rollout.

The Rees Labor Government has awarded a wireless network contract to IBM Australia that is set to create more than 100 new jobs.

We've just launched 70 themes for forms so you can add a little (or a lot of) color to your surveys and questionnaires. Some themes are basic colors schemes (like Blue, Espresso, or Rose) and others are fancier designs (like Picnic, Zen Spring, and Dusk).

google surveys can have colourful themes

Total Movie Converter is a handy solution to convert video files of almost all popular video codecs to AVI, MPG, WMV, MPEG, FLV.

Article describes several tools that can be used to tell a story.

What is a "story" here consists of more than one type of media (images + text, audio + images, etc) that are assembled on the web, and can be presented on the web or embedded into other web sites.

reputations of businesses can quickly be harmed due to technology

BEING so well connected has its drawbacks. Things can unfold very quickly these days and suddenly avalanche into catastrophe.

Students who, for political reasons, are unable or afraid to speak out in class, can now text message anonymously. Student participation has improved.

An article that may give some ideas of using a mobile device in education.

education researchers at The University of Nottingham believe it is time that phone bans were reassessed - because mobile phones can be a powerful learning aid, they say.

Practical tips on how a mobile device can be used in education.

Thirty-Nine Interesting Ways* to use your Pocket Video Camera

Some tips for using Google Docs for collaboration.

There are many services out on the web for online collaboration, but there's no doubt that Google Docs is rapidly becoming one of the more popular brands.

Facebook Inc. said it would move to implement two new governing documents after preliminary results showed that 74.4% of Facebook users who participated in a vote on the new documents supported them.

An Australian lass does some busking online to raise funds to participate in an overseas competition.

Kate came up with an idea. She collected a bunch of videos of her singing and put them together on a website as a sort of "virtual busking" site. The videos were added to YouTube and embedded in the site so that viewers can watch, and a "tipjar" connected to Paypal in case anyone wants to make a donation to her trip.

What is cloud computing? What are the differences between cloud computing, web2.0 and the internet?

The next version of the Bluetooth wireless technology is expected to transfer data 10 times faster than the current incarnation.

Article has some interesting ideas that may take place in a future classroom?

I was then thinking about 'the lecture' and 'the tutorial' and wondered if some simple tools can provide that holistic link, and allow students to engage and reflect better and promote, as Mike says "potential growth of the network, and the activities that may be engaged in by or with peers"