Winksite: The Mobile Site Builder (tm)

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WINKsite offers individuals and businesses a no-hassle approach to joining the wireless generation. In minutes, you can build a site for the Mobile Internet outfitted with handy user-oriented services including personalized mobile chat, surveys, profile, journal, rant/rave, agenda, guestbook, links, email and more.[by way of...Smart Mobs]

I played this a bit today. Am thinking it could be useful for high school teachers. A lot of there students have mobile phones... :-)

NPR Report on Weblogs and the War

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NPR : News By Web Log NPR's Laura Sydell reports that the war in Iraq has generated increased interest in blogs, short for weblogs. Blogging is the web-based practice of keeping an ever-updated personal account of some subject. Bloggers have become archivists, culling information they feel is not being presented in mainstream media and providing links to foreign news sources.

Weblogs as Project Managment Tools

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InfoWorld: Publishing a project Weblog: March 28, 2003: By Jon Udell: Web services There's a subject near and dear to my heart! A couple of years ago I predicted[2] that Weblogs would emerge within the enterprise as a great way to manage project communication. I'm even more bullish on the concept today. If you're managing an IT project, you are by definition a communication hub. Running a project Weblog is a great way to collect, organize, and publish the documents and discussions that are the lifeblood of the project and to shape these raw materials into a coherent narrative.

Another good article by Jon Udell on using weblogs to mangage projects.

HP's Create-a-Calculator Contest

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A terrific idea, the HP and Scholastic Create-a-Calculator Contest asks K-12 kids to design a better calculator.

Students may already be familiar with the useful and timesaving tasks that calculators can perform. Now, you and your teachers can challenge them to stretch their engineering, math, and design skills to invent the calculator of their dreams! There's no limit: Ideas can range from practical to fantastic, artistic to scientific. Entries may focus on a calculator's cosmetics, design, functionality, or a mixture of all three. Younger kids, for example, may wish to develop the shape, dimensions, colors, or the overall look and feel of a calculator. Older students and those with advanced math skills may wish to gear their entries more toward functionality: technical features, performance factors, or scientific and graphing abilities. They may even want to invent a new application or function key to enhance performance.

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