Flat Classroom Project

"Are Smartphones Making Us Dumber?"

A fantastic example of how a teacher takes his students through the video creation process for Flat Classroom along with some wonderful handouts. If you teach video, you will get some ideas here. Students will also benefit from it.

This is an interesting concept I came across; it involves groups of four school blogs that keep each other alive by giving each other feedback and encouragement.

A site that compares life amongst different countries." If you were not born in the country you were, what would your life be like? Would you be the same person?"

The recent landing of a space capsule was a huge success. It was the first mission to use outsourced supplies.

This article is about companies that have found a way to outsource jobs from the United States without destroying American jobs.

Gives insight into the life of an Indian call center worker.

More about a call center worker.

Withings is a company that has wi-fi enabled devices. These devices include apps and all kinds of smart-enabled tools (including ifttt.com integration.) Scales can automatically log your weight to evernote or a google doc to track, a blood pressure monitor and perhaps my favorite, a baby monitor that lets you dial in on junior using your iphone or ipad. (I needed that when my children were younger.) I am thinking about getting the baby monitor to use to monitor my classroom. So many different applications.