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1voteFirst-hand accounts of the deadly Mumbai attacks are pouring in on Twitter, Flickr, and other social media. Twitter has fresh news every few seconds, on Mumbai, Bombay, #Mumbai, and @BreakingNewz. "Hospital update. Shots still being fired. Also Metro cinema next door," tweets mumbaiattack. "Blood needed at JJ hospital," adds aeropolowoman, supplying the numbers for the blood bank.
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1voteNew York Nick Belardes believes in brevity. He hews close to that hallowed maxim, beloved by middle school English teachers and old-fashioned newsmen alike: Keep it simple, stupid.
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2voteHERNDON, Va., Oct 23, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Over the last 13 months, ePals, Inc., has seen a substantial increase in the number of educators passionate about using online learning methods and leveraging "social networking" technologies in their classrooms. Supporting this trend, adoptions of its free, award-winning, online Global Learning Community,
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1voteSkype's president said that the company was largely unaware of a major security breach affecting Skype users in China. In a blog published Thursday, Josh Silverman, Skype's president, explained he did not realize that TOM-Skype, Skype's partner in China, was logging and storing users' instant messages that were deemed offensive by the Chinese government.
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1voteYou don't need to be a technology whiz to bring the power of wikis to your classroom, says Punxsutawney Area High School teacher Louise Maine. In a year and a half since discovering the educational potential of this Web tool, she has learned enough to use a wiki as the hub for almost everything she and her science students do. (Read here about how she uses it.)
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