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It is impossible for the sites to do this. There is no way to independently identify the age and identify of minors. There is no RealID system for minors! More on the infeasibility here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/isttf Seems to me to be a major opportunity for Illinois high school educators to get your students involved in learning about the legislative process. My perspective is that the only reasonable option for Facebook, MySpace and any other social networking site would be to terminate the accounts of any minors who live in Illinois because it would be impossible for them to do this. The penalties for non-compliance would be pretty tough. Many co-sponsors. You might want to alert your students. They are the ones who would be impacted.

The content for this demonstration is drawn from Google's more than 74 Web logs. Most of the people with whom I speak are familiar with one or two of these publications. However, when monitoring Google's innovations, it is important to be able to get a quick view of what's new on each of these publications.

Subtitled, your daily cheat sheet for education issues, this Ed oriented blog specializes in controversial stories about school. Provocative. This is tabloid blog journalism focused on public education. If an administrator has made a bone head move it will show up on Detention Slip. There's plenty of fodder out there!

Blog post on Twitte use ideas.

BackType is a service that lets you find, follow and share comments from across the web. Whenever you fill out the "Website" or "URL" field in a comment form when you publish a comment on a blog or other website, BackType attributes it to you. We give comment authors a profile featuring all the comments they've written on the Internet.

Stake play money on the outcomes of real news stories and see if you're right. Uses online social interaction to wager on news based near term predictions. The more you know about the news the better your wagers.

Omnisio lets you select clips from videos you find on YouTube and other video sites, and easily post them on your profile page or blog. Even better, you and your friends can add comments directly in the video! With Omnisio you make and share your own shows by assembling clips from different videos.

Our R&D center is based in Chengdu, only 90 km from the epicenter. When the quake hit, our whole team was still in a heated discussion on features in our regular international conference meeting (…) All of a sudden, very loud rattling sound came through. Our team in Chengdu said calmly over skype, "There is an earthquake, we have to get out of here." (...) Shortly, news broke - a major earthquake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, hit the area, and Chengdu is only 90 kilometers from the epicenter! That got our US team really worried. Fortunately, we were able to connect with our Chengdu team a few hours later, and learned they are all safe and sound.

Create timelines, share them on the web. Timetoast is a great way to share your past, or even your future... Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be

Timetoast is a great way to share the past, or even the future... Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be.

Timetoast is a great way to share the past, or even the future... Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be.

A presentation on Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning, with a focus on training and education providers.

"Diigo is a powerful, yet incredibly simple to use research tool that allows people to annotate, bookmark, highlight, save, and clip the content on the web that matters to them." (Diigo's own tutorials/promotions on YT)

Live streaming broadcast tool--much more advanced than uStream, but still in beta. Looks very promising!

Create live, scheduled or on-demand television in a single player widget. Mix multiple live cameras, video clips and overlay graphics in the Mogulus Studio. Get your own branded channel page with chat on mogulus.com.

World Wrestling Entertainment's Wrestlemania is, quite simply, professional wrestling's answer to the Super Bowl, World Series and Final Four, all rolled into one. For over two decades, it has been the singular event that has brought all storylines and rivalries together in one action-packed spectacular. And it has been the signature promotion that has been most instrumental in wrestling's ability to transcend the sports and entertainment industries.

Breaking Barriers Digital Storytelling offers the opportunity for people from all over Caerphilly to use their voices to share their stories with us. Form one to one, to full-blown production workshops and working in community halls, drop-in centres, people's own homes and once even in a forest, local people from eight to eighty are making short films about things that are important to them.

"Drawing on case studies from news media to visualization research, we identify distinct genres of narrative visualization. We characterize these design differences, together with interactivity and messaging, in terms of the balance between the narrative flow intended by the author (imposed by graphical elements and the interface) and story discovery on the part of the reader (often through interactive exploration). Our framework suggests design strategies for narrative visualization, including promising under-explored approaches to journalistic storytelling and educational media."

Since the launch of the captions features for YouTube videos in last august, YouTube allows user add captions to one of your videos by uploading a closed caption file using the "Captions and Subtitles" menu on the editing page. This feature is used for people using other languages and even who are deaf or hard of hearing.

At the core of FreshBrain is an open and free web site freshbrain.org that provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. In addition, FreshBrain provides teens with tools and training in the latest technologies to complete these projects.

Handy tip that lets teachers register students on sites requiring email addresses, even if student do not have email accounts.

"Penzu is a free online diary and personal journal with a focus on privacy. Easily keep a secret diary of thoughts or a journal of notes and ideas secure and on the web." Also allows users the option of sharing pieces.