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"TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it." It's handy that the site begins with a search engine to find a topic or URL in YouTube.

From the About page:\n\nMy Pop Studio is a creative play experience that strengthens critical thinking skills about television, music, magazines and online media directed at girls. Users select from four behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn more about mass media:\n\n Looks like fun for high school students, and was created by a team at Temple University, School of Communication. Focus is media literacy.\n--EHS

"This wikibook article discusses Second Life, a virtual environment. The first part of this article, Introduction, gives a brief introduction to virtual environments and to the features of Second Life. The second part of this article, Characteristics of Second Life, discusses the theoretical features of virtual environments. The third part, Uses of Second Life & Projects in Second Life, focuses on uses of Second Life for social activism, education, and language teaching and learning. The final part of this article, Criticisms, Problems, and Limitations, includes a discussion of the most serious social problems occurring in Second Life and the constraints that individuals face when using Second Life." This is a very straightforward analysis of Second Life and even considers ethical issues in virtual worlds.