links for 2009-11-08

• Leadership for Web2.0 in Education: Promise and Reality | Twine
  This report documents the believes, perspectives, and practice of educational administrators which help or hinder effect use of Web 2.0 in K-12 education.
  (tags: web2.0 leadership education)
• World's First iPhone Worm Rick-Rolls Wallpaper – Sophos Labs Insights Blog – Dark Reading
  "Users of insecure, jailbroken iPhones are reporting their smartphones have been hit by a worm that turns their lock wallpaper to that of 1980s pop star Rick Astley."
  (tags: worm iphone icsxx)
• 8 Twitter Lists All Students Should Follow – HackCollege – Student-Powered Lifehacking
  "f you’re already a Twitter user, you probably get why Lists are so cool: they’re an awesome way to follow whole groups of interesting people, in one place, without letting them get all cluttered among everything else you follow. "
  (tags: twitter lists)
• 38 Shape Activities in Paris – Google Maps
  "38 Shape Activities in Paris
  Part of the MATHS MAPS series. "
  (tags: shape maps google activities googlemaps)
• PIZZAZ! Creative Writing and Storytelling Ideas
  "PIZZAZ! is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use with students of all ages. Permission is given to use these resources for in-class, non-profit use only."
  (tags: writing languagearts storytelling english ESL poetry creativewriting teaching)
• MagToo – Facebook slideshows, MySpace, slideshow, photo sharing, zoom, panorama, trip, photo, resizing – Magnify Your World
  MagToo is an image widget application and portal site which allows users to create slide shows with a unique magnifier tool, and immersive 360 degree panorama style shows.
  (tags: panorama presentation magtoo Presentations Slideshow photography web2.0 Tools)
• Tom Vander Ark: How Social Networking Will Transform Learning
  "How Social Networking Will Transform Learning"
  (tags: learning social_networking web2.0)
• Currents – Virtual Classrooms Could Create a Marketplace for Knowledge – NYTimes.com
  "Thanks to broadening Internet access, advances in multimedia and the market potential of millions of historically underserved learners among the developing world’s youth and the rich world’s adults, modern versions of the doughnut building are flowering globally:"
  (tags: virtual currents classrooms)
• MustExist | What Twitter lists say about you?
  "What do Twitter lists say about you? Enter your Twitter username and find out. "
  (tags: twitter mustexist web2.0)
• A simple yet powerful Twitter client for OSX, Windows and Linux – Twitter Thingy
  "Twitter Thingy is a very simple yet powerful Adobe air based Twitter client for windows, OS X and Linux."
  (tags: simple twitter client web2.0)
• KS2009: How Google uses Linux [LWN.net]
  "There may be no single organization which runs more Linux systems than Google. But the kernel development community knows little about how Google uses Linux and what sort of problems are encountered there."
  (tags: google linux icsxx)