Flat Classroom Project

Excellent music player that I enjoy using.

songbird is an open source audio player and a way that many are finding and sharing mp3's - it has done a nice job of being a very respectable alternative to itunes.

It has lots of good info on connecting the world, not just for government and employment stats but lots of other topics too. It is pretty long so you'll have to sort through stuff, but its worth the time.

This article give some background on Google but also advertises a book entitled 'Planet Google' by Randall Stross

By 1998, the Web was getting big enough that it was hard for human editors to keep up. That's when Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google and built a search engine that, by using a computer algorithm, could in theory scale to include an infinite number of Web sites. Google sent a spider into the Web that would index every page it crawled past.

Award winning wiki page for the first project about virtual communications. Excellent videos and wiki. Nearly perfect.

Virtual communications give us a way to communicate with people around the world. This wiki won the award for best wiki, and also included award winning videos. The team mates were mentioned by Tom Friedman in his book, The World is Flat.

Nice wiki about Web 2.0 tools and although underline is used improperly (you never use it unless it is a hyperlink), the page is sound and has some good information.

2006 Web 2.0 Flat Classroom Project

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.

Flat Classroom 2006 project that has done a nice job of discussing google.

Very nice wiki about how Google has transformed the world from Flat Classroom 2006.

The 2006 flat classroom project combined group discussed how information is changing, uploading, and personal learning networks.

Uploading, personal learning networks, and the changing shape of information are affecting our world. This is a page from the 2006 Flat Classroom Project.

In this case, arts, entertainment and leisure influences science and health -- viral videos and the new way that information spreads is fundamentally changing activism and promoting change. Talk about something to another person and just have a "jab session" -- make a video that goes viral and you can change the world.

Interestingly, inconvenient youth is built on the Ning platform. Fascinating use. This video from the blue man group on the environment has been widely viewed around the world. Such videos spark social change -- these are not TV commercials but viral videos that spread from blog to blog and email to email. How information travels has fundamentally changed.

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.

Last years project.

Social Support Network for people who are quite ill. Could inspire a video scene?

Patient-led, positive, and private health communities dedicated to patients, family, friends, and caregivers of those coping with chronic, life-shaping illnesses and conditions.

This is the largest group of educators and is a ning -- something you should discussion the the education area. Also has virtual communication tools in here as well.

Two Carnegie Mellon students are going to study the dynamics of Classroom 2.0. So, this session is going to be on Monday, October 20th -- find out more information here.

Gameplay workflow - game control approach.

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.)

At the core of FreshBrain is an open and free web site freshbrain.org that provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. In addition, FreshBrain provides teens with tools and training in the latest technologies to complete these projects. Providing the latest tools in technology, and a social interactive networking environment, has enabled teens to explore, create, and share with others. A result of pulling these two key online arenas together into one solution has enabled FreshBrain to attract teens comfortable with technology and communicating online. Creations from FreshBrain users range from music videos to logo designs.

This explains the meaning of Globalization.

This is another web sites point of view on globalization.

Brief overview and introduction to globalization

This is four advantages to outsourcing.

"As cell phones become more ubiquitous, it's becoming increasingly easy to use them for positive action. We've been talking about that quite a bit lately here on Planet Green, and one of the organizations whose name keeps popping up is Mobile Active. They're a great group, and deserve a highlight. Mobile Active, as they succinctly state, is "a global network of people using mobile technology for social impact." The group recognizes that there are billions of phones across the world being used by people in even the most unlikely of places. More are entering the consumer stream on a daily basis. Therefore, a cell phone is the perfect tool with which to engage people for activism. The group works to help organizations understand how they can use mobile phones to get people involved in social change or improve their organization, reduce the costs of getting mobile phones into the hands of people who need them, speed up the adoption of mobile phones as a tool among non-profits, and facilitate the implementation of mobile phone projects and campaigns. Mobile Active takes part in issues ranging from health to environment to disaster relief. You can search through all the many projects they're involved in with their mDirectory. As you look through, there's no doubt you'll be inspired and think about your cell phone in a whole new way - as a tool for changing the world. Check out the Good Call feature here on Planet Green for great information about cell phones and activism. More on Changing the World with Cell Phones How Cell Phones Are Changing the Face of Green Activism Good Call! Using Your Mobile Phone for Green Activism We Have Green Phone Apps Galore...But Are They Doing Any Good?"

This is a great column that involves mobile and ubiquitous computing. This column is about mobile devices helping to save the earth.