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Open source now has a new meaning -- the traditional term has meant "open source software" but now, increasingly it is meaning "open source information" -- as US spy agencies are talking about the use of more open source information, or information taken from openly available and free sources on the Internet. As we teach new terminology and how to understand the words that make our world meaningful, it is increasingly important to teach students to watch and understand the evolution of language. This is an excellent case study. This is also an important term and article to be reviewed by students involved in the Horizon project that are analyzing government trends and our changing world.

This new term of open source information is a very important emerging trend that should be included in the subgroup of those analyzing government information and trends.

This is an excellent article in education week discussing the copyright issues and how it is causing problems in schools with digital storytelling and video making as part of their work. Some recent court decision strike fear in the heart of teachers.

This is an important overview to read to understand copyright issues as they relate to digital storytelling and the classroom.

This teacher is contributing and participating in projects and his enthusiasm is spilling over into class discussions (imagine that) -- Steve has helped us proofread our horizon templates and create a page for internet safety for the students that they will be adding to. It is this type of professional educator that makes projects like Horizon so worthwhile and meaningful -- we have a lot of virtual volunteers out there!

This could be an example where Open Source software will challenge commercial producers of web collaboration software. Will it be a Linux? Skype? Apache Server? Audacity?

Dimdim is web collaboration software that is free and is open source. It has become available to everyone in the middle of April 2008

Look at how diigo has propagated through the internet through "word of tweet" (from twitter.)

I find this fascinating that diigo has made the "top twitter" cloud. There are certainly a lot of people following it. They are very responsive and have done a great job. They deserve it. As Horizon looks at collaboration and mashups, Diigo is something that the students will want to look at, both as a service AND at the way it has spread like wildfire, through basically "word of tweet."

More educators are beginning to podcast -- these two educators are sharing a wide variety of resources via podcast.

An example of teacher professional development that is using podcasts to share information.

This is a video talking about what the future will be like. This is a good video for ideas about how to construct the video as well as the trends that are shaping our world today. It is important for the students of horizon to view and understand although many of us who've been watching this type of video for a while may think the technique is "old hat" it still has a powerful message.

Take a look at this video both for structure and for ideas about how the world is changing.

This is a very honest, open discussion between educators about why diigo or delicious -- I think the fact we can have this conversation within diigo at all says a lot for the usefulness of the tool. Diigo is an emerging tool for social bookmarking and collective intelligence.

Look at the conversations betwen educators occuring on diigo about this tool.

I wrote this post to outline the progression I take my classes through to get them to the state where they may collaborate directly with students in another country. I put a lot of time and thought into the progression of collaborative skills.

This talks about from an educational standpoint how I take students towards a flat classroom project.

Scott McLeod talks about how to rank one's success as a weblog -- talking about comment intensity. I think comments are important, however, comments are often correlated with controversy and the vocality of readership.

Observations by Alan Levine about the use of Ning for collaboration, specifically based upon Flat Classroom and Horizon.

Interesting observations from Alan Levine about those of us who use Nings for our projects. It truly becomes "the" ning.

An overview and review of teacher tube vs. Youtube -- I think there are some very good points here -- and why don't schools just unblock youtube? I think this is a great overview and has made me think about a few things about TeacherTube, I haven't gotten before.

Users of XO -- this is a srver that allows people to share anything on their XO laptop with others -- there is a link with discussions and information on this server -- so if you have an XO laptop-- take a look. This is sharing knowledge.

The XO laptop is an important trend to take a look at as one discusses how people are connecting.

Some good best practices from a teacher on keeping students cybersafe. I like this practical list and think it should be shared. It is important that we teach students about how to be safe online and good digital citizens.

This incredible chart says it all about the importance of wiki collaboration. This should also be a message to bloated bureaucracies looking to squeeze that last bit of efficiency out of already overworked staff. This is an important chart for horizon project students to include, I believe.

this is a very important graphic for including in the Horizon Project material.

This is a great example of how entertainment is changing and things are being mashed up.

This is an example of a mashup --this is a massive game of rock-paper-scissors played using flickr (for the pictures of the "throw), twitter (for taunting) and some sort of database (for the game itself.)

This is an example of how video sharing sites like youtube are playing a role in the current US political election. This Hilliary Clinton video is going through youtube and the evening news as well.

An example of Literature teachers sharing links about Shakespeare.

A diigo list that Kristin Hokanson is creating for teachers of shakespeare. Many of us are experimenting with diigo because of several useful features. It imports and exports from delicious and posts to twitter automatically too.

Collaborative writing project between two classroom teachers -- it will be done on a Google Doc and it is between elementary classrooms -- you may sign up now! Lisa Parisi and Brian Crosby have set it up.