This map came up in Stumbler. A visual overview of the Internet 2007. It was created by Information Architects Japan. Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, eBay and all of the usual supsects dominate. Interesting to see Baidu from China up there as well. Facebook and Technorati are key hubs.

A nice page about Web 2.0 technologies in education from Solution Watch. This is a well written article with worthwhile links and advice for educators from all fields.

Staff at the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in the US have established a blog and a list of activities focused upon the application of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and wikis in education. They have compiled a list of 23 activities that one can complete, in any sequence and at any pace, in order to gain an insight into Web 2.0 technologies and their relationship to education. Well worth a closer look, particularly by teachers who are keen to learn more about Web 2.0.

A colleague, Alan, shared this amazing piece of software with me today. It is called Jing Project. It captures video or stills from your computer’s screen. It is cross-platform ~ Win or Mac. The team has a blog as well.

I was in the Cave at school today and chanced upon my colleague Rick who was in a video chat with Jeff at St John’s. Jeff was making inquiries about downloading video from YouTube. You know, have you ever chanced upon a video hosted on YouTube or even TeacherTube that you thould would be useful as an icebreaker for a lesson or an excellent example of a scientific principle? Then you wish to download it for later use? Well, here are two solutions:

1. A quick search on Google unearthed TubeSock. A nice piece of software. It is not free but it is excellent.

My friend Siva from Singapore entered the iChat conversation and I shared with him our dilemma and he fired this suggestion at me:

2. Firefox browser add-on: Video Downloader 1.1.1.

3. As above, alternative URL for Video Downloader 1.1.1.

Enjoy!