Horizon Project 2008

40 hours of compressed video stuck in an elevator became instant YouTube hit.

A compressed video made of footage from a surveillance camera showing a man who got trapped in an elevator for over 40 hours back in 1999 emerged online and became an instant hit.

NBC News and MSNBC.com will provide political news and other content to social networking site MySpace.

The age group that makes use of the likes of MySpace are also getting more involved in teh political process

Rock 'n' roll bad boys Motley Crue will become the first group to release a new single through Rock Band, the developer of the wildly popular game.

First rock band to release a single through the gaming industry. Video games may be a new source of revenue for the music industry. Rock Band allows gamers to play along to songs with controllers shaped like a guitar, drum set or microphone

How about that!

An expensive three day F2F conference on videoconferencing. With registration, gas and jet fuel, accommodation and expenses, easily the cost of a classroom video conferencing unit for some remote school. To say nothing of the environmental impact and loss of productivity. Times XXX conference delegates....hmmmm let see. Holy crap you could have set up a couple of schools!

Intel Mashmaker is a tool that you download and "mashup" sites together. It is supposed to allow average everyday people to be able to mashup google sites, flickr, almost anything with what programmers call an api.

Full features of Animoto for free to educators

Some excellent videos of leading thinkers about Web. 20 and social networking and their impact on education and business.

Global Cooling Project live concert from Toorak College Melbourne, Saturday April 19, 2008

When you get gov't (Dept of Ed) involved in IT for DE it ends up an enormous clusterfest. Takes years to even consider a proposal. Most of the folks making the executive decisions are a few years out from retirement and are hoping they can ride it out until magic 80. Don't have the background or authority to make effective choices only have authority to "consider" which means block.

Could be a spark of an idea for a multi-media artifact?

Just who will be buying it? Many expect that our mom's will be buying them.

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Many of the observations about the increasing costs of rural education apply in rural Canada as well. Rural schools with highschool enrollments of under 100 students can't be sustained using current models. However, the use of technology would make it possible to deliver world connecting education with a fraction of the cost. Which means that small rural schools could be sustained. We won't be having the standard industrial model of one teacher per class per grade. And maybe that's a good thing, it was kind of an arbitrary arrangement anyway, more for the sake of administration than learning.

We live in a wireless world. Garry Barker meets a man whose world is more wireless than most.

Good article that explains the different wireless protocols used in mostly layman's terminology. Could create some ideas for a multi-media artifact?

An excellent project for 4th - 6th grade sudents from Jennifer Wagner called the Prince Caspian project which will allow teachers to collaborate with other teachers around the world about the book and the upcoming movie "Prince caspian."

This project will allow students in grades 4-6 to collaborate to talk about Prince Caspian.

Confiscating and looking at information on cell phones by school officials is still not clear. This is a very interesting case study for those working with digital citizenship issues at their school.

A court case about illegal search and siezure of a cell phone in Michigan, USA.

Flickr users are angry about the addition of video. If you search "video" on flickr, you'll see many such responses. This is important to highlight in the horizon project.

Response of many flickr users to the addition of video to flickr. This is going to be a very interesting thing to watch. Should a company focus, or should it be everything to everyone? I think that somehow flickr may miss the point... there are subgroups of people who want to use technologies in a focused way without everyone else. IN some ways, self selection makes the product more usable to a niche. Now, photobugs may have to go somewhere else or tolerate the "moving pictures" that they so hate.

Technology start-up PluggedIn Media Inc. is set Wednesday to begin letting users view for free near-DVD-quality music videos licensed from three of the four biggest music companies, along with information about artists and links to buy merchandise and concert tickets.

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