Wes Fryer gave a heads up on this interesting video from Travis Allen and the iSchool Initiative. This "kid" definitely has the vision of what schools can become if they would smarten up and stop blocking personal technology. I'm definitely going to have my students watch this in Fall, then we'll brainstorm ways to make this a reality in our classroom.
Of course, the library enters into this with Gale's AccessMyLibrary (NOTE TO GALE: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE THAT AVAILABLE FOR YOUR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL CLIENTS!) and Google Apps. Follett also needs to get on board with this and create an iPhone app for Destiny. They already have one for Titlewave. But that doesn't do the students any good!
UPDATE: Just found an "add your school" link on Gale's database app. Here's hoping it works for international schools. I'll let you know!
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