Flat Classroom Project

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.

This organization had people vote on the top elearning tools, while I'd put Diigo FAR AND ABOVE higher than delicious, a lot of people just haven't tried it yet. (I still send diigo links through to delicious anyway.) Some interesting items on here.

Great list of elearning tool from educators

This page highlights how information has changed.

This article predicts what may happen in the future based on current experiments between universities. Gives some nice history. Some good material for a wiki.

Smarr is one of the people who can legitimately claim the benefit of foresight. He is one of the internet's architects, one of the academics who connected their universities using slow, slow dial-up modem links, just to see what would happen next. He has seen this communication highway grow, and is still at the forefront of research as he explores what he calls "ultra-broadband", asking the question: what will cyberspace look like when it is 10,000 times its current speed?

A possible social implication on the use of the web. May spark an idea for a segment of video?

Researchers studying the aging process have found that surfing the Web may improve the memories of middle-aged and older adults.

Article explains that malicious applications can be removed from the android phone. iPhone has the same feature. May give some inspiriation for a segment of vision?

Everyone's all a-twitter over the so-called "kill switch" found in Google's first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. Here's the thing, though: Not only is it not a big deal -- it's actually a good thing.

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.

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.

Colleges like Yale and MIT are sharing their courses with "open courseware" - this is a very important part of sharing and how things are changing. People can literally attend colleges without paying (of course, they don't get the "credit." But this is part of building a personal learing network and how people are connecting online like never before.

Yale is joining the open bandwagon and now has some more open courses including courses on "The American Novel Since 1945" "introduction to Greek History, Civil War History, France history since 1871, Milton, physics and engineering. There are great college level resources becoming available. There are also many audio books and online podcasts here.

A lot of tax returns are prepared in india.

This is an example of social entrepreneurship and a new way that people are connecting online. This is a great organization (Discovery - discovery channel, etc.) and they have a great program.

My Dad has diabetes as did my grandfather. This is a great program and discovery does things right -- please consider letting your students join this great event. "Discovery Education has launched a program for high school health/science teachers designed to help educate students about Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. The site includes lesson plans (coming soon), lots of videos and multimedia interactives on digestion, blood glucose and diabetes. To recognize World Diabetes Day on November 14, all students with Type 1 diabetes are encouraged to create videos to "Shout Out" about diabetes and tell their story. For each video submitted, Novo Nordisk will make a donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to help fund research leading to a cure for Type 1 diabetes. Plus, each student who submits a video will receive a free Discovery DVD. "

Boeing Working With Chinese Scientists To Develop Wireless Connectivity | October 16, 2008

Globalization, Economics and Education.

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.