Experience Christmas and the Holiday season around the world on Skype in the classroom

Experience Christmas and the Holiday season around the world on Skype in the classroom:

As preparations for the holiday season are well underway in many schools around the world, Skype in the classroom teachers and their students are keen to share and compare their local traditions.

For teachers and classrooms who want to show-and-tell their stories, songs, crafts and culture with schools worldwide, we've brought together some of the best seasonal projects for Christmas and the Holidays taking place on Skype in the classroom.

Children from Balatonbogla Primary School, Hungary participate in a monthly cultural exchange via Skype video. They are looking for students from all over the world to share their holiday traditions with.

It's easy for teachers to take part in a range of projects and join our community of over 19,500 Skype in the classroom enthusiasts in time for the holidays.

Meanwhile, if you have any great holiday projects, stories, images or videos to share please tweet us using #SkypeClassroom. We'd love to hear about them. We hope to bring you more great seasonal projects in the New Year.

SKYTEACHING OF CHILDREN FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE.

Happy Holidays!

Facebook And Gowalla Won’t Confirm Rumors Of Deal

Facebook And Gowalla Won’t Confirm Rumors Of Deal:

Neither Facebook nor Gowalla has confirmed a rumored acquisition of the location sharing service by the leading social network.

Representatives from both companies have said via emails that neither will comment on rumors and speculation.

CNN broke the story last night without quoting any sources on the record; the news outlet said that most of Gowalla’s staff would move to Facebook headquarters to work on timeline, the advanced profile yet to go into beta.

Since launching in 2009, Gowalla has amassed only 10,000 users connected to Facebook, compared to 560,000 for archrival Foursquare.

Facebook’s own geolocation service has undergone repositioning since launching a year-and-a-half ago, lending a wee bit of plausibility to of an acquisition of Gowalla, which has also had its own repositioning.

For a deal to sufficiently pay reward venture investors, Facebook would have to pay around $30 million for Gowalla, according to our colleagues at Inside Facebook. Yet this is all speculation, since neither of the companies will comment on whether anything is going on between the two.

Software For e-Learning Enables Users To Publish Flash Instantly To Leading Social Media Sites

Software For e-Learning Enables Users To Publish Flash Instantly To Leading Social Media Sites:

Software For e-Learning Enables Users To Publish Flash Instantly To Leading Social Media Sites is a news post on crowdsourcing in education

Flash animation users can now publish content direct from their desktop on leading social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, You Tube, twitter and Snap! Channel in one click. Snap! EmpowerTM Flash interactions builder unveiled its latest desktop e-Learning software that lets users publish directly on social media platforms with ease.

Because social learning and collaboration have become a strong force within the e-Learning community, we wanted to find a way to meet the demand for the exchange and flow of information among learners…Enabling authors to quickly and easily push Flash and e-Learning content to the familiar places where learners already socialize provides an opportunity for learners to connect and share with one another.

Peter Bray, Chief Marketing Officer at Trivantis Corporation

The Snap! Empower e-Learning software offers an efficient means through which users can interact and engage in learning. The builders have simplified content sharing on social media by allowing users to engage in online discussions anytime, anywhere. Through the software, users can leverage the crowd on social media platforms to ask questions, as well as get answers.

The software also provides an opportunity for users to develop professional acquaintances that enhance online learning. And users don’t have to be expert flash programmers. The software lets novices and experts create powerful flash content readily and with ease.

Snap! EmpowerTM Flash interactions builder is a developer of software that allows expert flash programmers and novices build Flash content. Snap! by Lectora® is another powerful product developed by Trivantis, and is currently a leading e-Learning software globally. Lectora® converts PowerPoint to Flash and is currently in use in over 70 countries. The software is available in six languages. Trivantis produces a range of other e-Learning Flash related products.