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 * [9:29:15 PM] Michael J. Trout says: hi
 * [9:29:32 PM] gerrickg says: hello
 * [9:29:38 PM] Michael J. Trout says: we might be having connectivity problems
 * [9:29:48 PM] gerrickg says: everyone sounds good on this end
 * [9:29:57 PM] Michael J. Trout says: alan was dropped and brian
 * [9:30:03 PM] Michael J. Trout says: they all in now
 * [9:43:37 PM] Gary Goldberger says: http://www.thinkport.org/technology/gotgame/default.tp
 * [9:43:50 PM] Gary Goldberger says: http://mpt.org/pressroom/pr/prdisplay.cfm?pruid=05102401
 * [9:44:30 PM] Gary Goldberger says: http://www.thinkport.org/technology/gotgame/new/newsletter/default.tp
 * [9:47:11 PM] Gary Goldberger says: nope
 * [9:47:19 PM] Paul Reynolds says: perfect
 * [9:48:48 PM] Paul Reynolds says: http://www.fablevision.com/northstar/read.html
 * [9:49:41 PM] Paul Reynolds says: http://www.fablevision.com/education
 * [9:49:55 PM] Gary Goldberger says: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/westonwoods/catalog/product.asp?cid=676&fid=22
 * [9:51:11 PM] Michael J. Trout says: www.wiserearth.org
 * [9:53:45 PM] Paul Reynolds says: very cool brian!
 * [9:53:50 PM] Brian Goodman says: Brian Goodman
 * [9:54:04 PM] Brian Goodman says: 508 930 8537 - Cell
 * [9:54:11 PM] Brian Goodman says: bgoodman@firststepsconsulting.com
 * [9:54:21 PM] Paul Reynolds says: for us, our mission is to harvest wisdom through story
 * [9:56:07 PM] Paul Reynolds says: Michael's story - off to Japan, fundraising, community dev services/independent consultant, IT start ups, generalist/native gamer
 * [9:56:49 PM] Paul Reynolds says: 2 yrs - "crash course" on 2.0 - "why isn't education flat?"
 * [9:57:48 PM] Gary Goldberger says: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/bb_title/display.pperl?isbn=9780767908184
 * [9:57:50 PM] Paul Reynolds says: we have the tech/pieces - addiction: books on tape (A Short History on Nearly Everything) - "this is what I should have done in highschool!"
 * [9:58:35 PM] Paul Reynolds says: So much content - rotting away on hard drives - all the NPR/BBC - then ... the wiki's - now we need the TV version of the Wiki
 * [10:00:24 PM] Paul Reynolds says: we are very used to working on projects that are in formation stages
 * [10:01:16 PM] Michael J. Trout says: janeinuk
 * [10:01:27 PM] Gary Goldberger says: janefreynolds
 * [10:10:20 PM] Paul Reynolds says: FableVision enjoys ground-level problem-solving
 * [10:10:30 PM] Paul Reynolds says: much more fun.
 * [10:11:54 PM] Paul Reynolds says: Have you heard about the UN initiative for the One Laptop per Child project?
 * [10:16:57 PM] Gary Goldberger says: http://flickr.com/photos/emjet/sets/72157594342897262/
 * [10:19:45 PM] Paul Reynolds says: Have you read Barabasi's Linked: The New Science of Networks? Here's a review . . .  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/linked.html


 * [10:20:04 PM] Paul Reynolds says: Linked: The New Science of Networks (Hardcover)

by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
 * [10:20:29 PM] Paul Reynolds says: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738206679/darwinanddarwini/
 * [10:21:00 PM] Paul Reynolds says: important piece of the power of connecting human potential via networked universe
 * [10:23:56 PM] Paul Reynolds says: Another favorite book of mine - Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

by Dr. Margaret J. Wheatley
 * [10:29:09 PM] Michael J. Trout says: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/101/278213734_b619fd1958.jpg?v=0
 * [10:34:42 PM] Paul Reynolds says: So the idea is that we create a "Ready-to-Go" Learning Application - that has tools for local customization - and tools to create completely new user-created modules - feeding into the global network - getting rated by the community - the best UGC rises to the top
 * [10:35:27 PM] Paul Reynolds says: change the way we create tools for learning
 * [10:35:47 PM] Paul Reynolds says: adapting tools for the way human's learn
 * [10:36:45 PM] Paul Reynolds says: schlesinger media - also aggregating content
 * [10:36:59 PM] Paul Reynolds says: for their Safari Montage system
 * [10:41:21 PM] Paul Reynolds says: http://www.curriki.org - Sun Microsystem's platform
 * [10:42:06 PM] Paul Reynolds says: all it is right now is a big bookmarking site for random content - but it's getting at the idea of a community-based development lab
 * [10:51:21 PM] Michael J. Trout says: http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ -- multi touch
 * [11:00:38 PM] Alan Guinn says: Michael, I'm out
 * [11:19:23 PM] Gary Goldberger says: brb
 * [11:20:20 PM] Alan Guinn has changed the chat topic to "Eduit.org"
 * [11:21:10 PM] Gary Goldberger says: back