Disclosure: Many of the women on the Canadian team play in either Madison, WI (where I live) or Duluth, MN (where I grew up). This whole situation makes me feel closer to Dean Shareski.

danah boyd on ChatRoulette.

We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.

This is what happens when major telecommunications companies fail to lead, fail to follow, and fail to get out of the way.

Go Google.

Google

As a social experiment, at least, ChatRoulette makes the Internet seem ‘new’ again — paradoxically by making it feel old.

Switched.com

This is why I love the Internets.

Chatroulette!

Caring about our students is about listening to them. About learning about them — from them. It is, as I’ve written before, about understanding that if we hope to be a transformative figure in their lives, we must be willing to be transformed ourselves.

Chris shares a breakthrough in connecting his thoughts about inquiry and caring. Simple question: “What do you think?”

Source: Chris Lehmann