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Visiting another school, I was amazed to find my own website blocked by the regional supplier because "the site you have chosen has been categorised as: Criminal Skills". The problem seemed to be a reference to my boat's name, Cracker, which led the system's "artificial intelligence" (hah!) to think I was an illegal hacker. Now this is clearly ludicrous. Teachers report the constant frustration of trying to unlock blogs, or wikis, only to find the next page in the chain still blocked. To clear a few pages for a lesson can take weeks - no wonder that they simply give up or buy their own wirelses 3G access to circumvent the school's lockdown. Meanwhile, other schools are embracing the vast resources within YouTube, have children blogging away with compelling content, are posting videos of school progress for parents, and adopting simple community tools for all.

See where you rank in your city. Twitterlocal shows the top twitter users in cities across the globe. Guess who makes the top 5 for Shanghai?

Twine is a new service that helps you organize, share and discover information around your interests, with networks of like-minded people. You can use Twine individually, with friends, or with groups, teams and communities. Powered by semantic understanding, Twine automatically organizes information, learns about interests and makes recommendations. The more you use Twine, the better it gets to know you and the more useful it becomes.

Screencast demo of Xobni

A screencast of some of the features in the new Evernote for the web, Windows, Mac and mobile.

Edit This Page Learning 2.008 EdubloggerCon Where: Shanghai, China - TBA When: Thursday Sept. 18th 9:00am - Until we leave external image 2391290681_aaafb50a7f_o.pngThe Learning 2.008 EdubloggerCon is a change for bloggers who will be attending the Learning 2.008 Conference in Shanghai, China Sept. 18-20 to have a "meet-up" and discuss Web 2.0 tools.This is a FREE event for all.

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