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Wireless electricity? It's here - CNN.com - 0 views
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Wireless homes Don't worry about getting zapped: Hall assures that the magnetic fields used to transfer energy are "perfectly safe" -- in fact, they are the same kind of fields used in Wi-Fi routers.
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Plans for use in future homes, a wire-free energy tranfer throughout the homes.
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In the house of the future, wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet. If all goes to WiTricity's plans, smartphones will charge in your pocket as you wander around, televisions will flicker with no wires attached, and electric cars will refuel while sitting on the driveway.
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WiTricity have already demonstrated their ability to power laptops, cell-phones, and TVs by attaching resonator coils to batteries -- and an electric car refueller is reportedly in the works.
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When Hall first saw the wireless bulb, she immediately thought of medical technology -- seeing that devices transplanted beneath the skin could be charged non-intrusively.
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WiTricity is now working with a medical company to recharge a left-ventricular assist device -- "a heart-pump essentially." The technology opens the door to any number of mobile electronic devices which have so far been held back by limited battery lives.
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What's next? The challenge now is increasing the distance that power can be transferred efficiently. This distance -- Hall explains -- is linked to the size of the coil, and WiTricity wants to perfect the same long-distance transfers to today's small-scale devices. For this reason, the team have high hopes for their new creation: AA-sized wirelessly rechargeable batteries. For Hall, the applications are endless: "I always say kids will say: 'Why is it called wireless?'" "The kids that are growing up in a couple of years will never have to plug anything in again to charge it."
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Dr Katie Hall is developing ways to transfer power without wires In the home of the future, wireless energy will be as common as Wi-Fi Internet, she believes The technology could lead to new and revolutionary medical devices
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It's great to see so much discussion of this technology on social media and the comments thread. There seems to be a lot of interest in the contribution of Nikola Tesla's experiments to the development of this technology. Dr Hall discussed Tesla briefly in her interview with Nick Glass: Nick Glass: Given that Tesla and others realized all this over a Century ago, why's it taken so long? Dr Hall: I don't think they realized exactly what we've done. They were certainly dreaming of wireless power -- there's no question about that. In those days, it was a different problem, because they were really thinking about: how do they get the power from where it's generated to where it's used. And in that case they might have been thinking about Niagara Falls generating the power and getting it to New York City -- and that's a long distance. We're not proposing that the technology we have here at WiTricity would be used for that kind of application. When we came around, power's already being transferred by wires to homes and rooms and things of that nature, so we had a much different problem, which was really just this much shorter distance. As WiTricity have mentioned on their website the Highly Resonant Wireless Power Transfer technology they have developed is also distinct from Tesla's creations -- and, crucially, is efficient enough to be economically viable.
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How Collaboration Tools Can Improve Knowledge Work - Brad Power - Harvard Business Review - 0 views
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We can’t rely on people to pass on the best way to do work by word of mouth. Instead, we need to document and share them, before they become lost.
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Collaborating via internet helps information pass more quickly than doing it verbally. It also insures information will not be lost.
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Like Facebook, the Nationwide network enables people to share with groups or friends, with easy access through mobile devices. When workers ask questions of the community, they usually get faster answers than from the help desk or e-mail. Some leaders are now posting quick (less than two minutes) video announcements about new or changed processes, instead of sending e-mail.
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Nationwide’s social collaboration tools help people get conversations started, make faster decisions, get work done more quickly, communicate better top to bottom, recognize peers and better engage workers.
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Nationwide has been successful because it has managed its adoption of collaboration tools as part of a broader cultural change program. Chris Plescia, leader of marketing, collaboration and corporate Internet solutions, told me that the first step for leaders is a little bit of a leap: “We’ve made it okay to try something new. A couple years ago, it took me about five minutes to post my first question. I was worried I might make a mistake, so I spell-checked it several times before I sent it out. When people responded I realized I needed to quickly interact with them and eventually became comfortable with potential spelling errors. Another challenge was knowing that these conversations are public. So we spent time up front to define policies for compliance and governance.”
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Getting Started with Firefox extension - Diigo help - 0 views
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Feature Highlight: Highlights Diigo saves the day with "highlights". Highlights let you select the important snippets on a page and store them in your library with the page's bookmark. Let's try it. Just open a page, maybe one of your old-school bookmarks or one of your new cat bookmarks, and find the information on that page you actually care about. Select that important text. Got it? Okay, now put your hemet on, 'cause this might blow your mind! Click the highlight icon on the Diigo toolbar. It's the one with the "T" on a page with a yellow highlighter. You will notice that the selected text gets a yellow background. This means that the text has been saved in your library, and as long as you have the Diigo add-on the text will be highlighted on the page! How's that for easy? Now you've highlighted the text. It will appear in your library within the bookmark for the page it is on. Go to your library and you can see how it works. If you're not sure how to get to your library, just click the second icon on the toolbar (Diigo icon to the left of the search bar) and then select "My Library »".
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Sticky Notes on the Web What? I can put a sticky note on a web page? How? Oh, that's right! Diigo. Just right-click anywhere on the page and choose to "add a floating sticky note". Type up your note and choose "Post", then move the note anywhere on the page. You have to type a note first, before you move it where you want, otherwise there's nothing to move!
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Don't Get Hacked! Secure Your Digital Identity - YouTube - 0 views
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Don't Get Hacked! Secure Your Digital Identity Mat Honan's ENTIRE digital life was wiped out all because hackers wanted his twitter account. We have new details on the attack and how Apple and Amazon are changing their policies because of it. Make sure to read up on Arstechnica's article on auditing your cloud identity.
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This an interesting video for identity and security. You will want to be careful on what you leave available online. Your entire digital identity, so digital security is essential when working online.
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Getting Started with Diigolet - Diigo help - 0 views
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Tags help you find and organize your bookmarks by letting you select all of your bookmarks with a certain tag or combination of tags. Quickly add relevant tags to a bookmark by clicking on any of the recommended tags that appear under the description field on the “Save Bookmark” pop-up. When you are satisfied with the information in the “Save Bookmark” pop-up, click the “Save Bookmark” button. Now a link to the page is stored in your Diigo library, and the information you entered is stored with it.
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Highlight Highlighting lets you denote important information on a page, just like highlighting in a book, but with Diigo, the highlighted text will be conveniently saved to your library as well. There are some important things for me to denote on my recipe. My wife doesn’t like pineapple, my grandfather can’t have eggs or chocolate, and I don’t like coconut very much, so I highlight those items on the recipe to let me know I need to deal with them. Highlight by clicking “Highlight” on the Diigolet. Then select the text you want to highlight. The text will be visually highlighted and the text is now stored in your library. It’s that easy. Click the button again to exit highlighter mode. You can also change the color of a highlight by clicking the downward-pointing arrow next to “Highlight” and choosing a color. Colors are useful for differentiating different types of highlights. I will use a different color for each of the different people I need to consider.
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To add a sticky note to a highlight, simply move your mouse cursor over a highlight. When the little pop-up tab with the pencil on it appears, move the cursor to it and a menu will appear. Choose “Add Sticky Notes”. Now you can type and post a sticky note just like before, but this time it will be tied to the highlighted text.
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very good search criteria here. explains how to narrow your search and validify information
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What sources does the author cite, and what do others say about those sources?
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Education, media-literacy-wise, is happening now after school and on weekends and when the teacher isn't looking, in the SMS messages, MySpace pages, blog posts, podcasts, videoblogs that technology-equipped digital natives exchange among themselves.
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At that point, I saw education – the means by which young people learn the skills necessary to succeed in their place and time – as diverging from schooling.
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chools will remain places for parents to put their kids while they go to work, and for society to train a fresh supply of citizen-worker-consumers to be employed by the industries of their time.
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But the kind of questioning, collaborative, active, lateral rather than hierarchical pedagogy that participatory media both forces and enables is not the kind of change that takes place quickly or at all in public schools.
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someone needs to educate children about the necessity for critical thinking and encourage them to exercise their own knowledge of how to make moral choices.
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the basic moral values – is supposed to be what their parents and their religions are responsible for.
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But the teachable skill of knowing how to make decisions based on those values has become particularly important now that a new medium suddenly connects young people to each other and to the world's knowledge in ways no previous generation experienced.
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anything can be learned by researching on the internet and proper wordings. as long as you know whats going to give you the truest results.
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the ability to differentiate between right and wrong is a huge deal when researching and trying to find good knowledge.. for example if you where to type "blow up" in google you would get all kinds of "JuNK" if you were to specify a noun in the search you could exponentially narrow your "junk" results. "Right vs. Wrong" isnt always pertaining to internet pornography. as said in this article. the principles behind it are what matters as well as your ability to use them.
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e teach our kids how to cross the street and what to be careful about in the physical world. And now parents need to teach their kids how to exercise good sense online. It's really no more technical than reminding your children not to give out their personal information to strangers on the telephone or the street. When it comes to helping them learn how to be citizens in a democracy, media literacy education is central to 21st century civic education.
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At the same time that emerging media challenge the ability of old institutions to change, I think we have an opportunity today to make use of the natural enthusiasm of today's young digital natives for cultural production as well as consumption, to help them learn to use the media production and distribution technologies now available to them to develop a public voice about issues they care about.
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The media available to adolescents today, from videocameraphones to their own websites, to laptop computers, to participatory media communities like MySpace and Youtube, are orders of magnitude more powerful than those available in the age of the deskbound, text-only Internet and dial-up speeds.
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Those young people who can afford an Internet-connected phone or laptop are taking to the multimedia web on their own accord by the millions– MySpace gets Google-scale traffic and Youtube serves one hundred million videos a day.
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Although the price of entry is dropping, there is still an economic divide; nevertheless, the online population under the age of 20 is significant enough for Rupert Murdoch to spend a quarter billion dollars to buy MySpace.
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http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=meme - 1 views
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. On January 25, 2011, Egyptians took to the streets in Cairo, Alexandria, and some other places in the so called Day of Revolt, concentrating their grievances on legal and political matters. Rather than a typical small protest, the Day of Revolt exploded into a monumental moment in Egypt's history because of social media. Social media did not cause Egypt's revolution; however, it accelerated the movement. Viral videos, such as Asmaa Mahfouz's, and the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia created a surge of emotion in Egyptians, persuading them to protest. Egyptian protestors used Facebook and Twitter to get people out on the streets within the country and YouTube to let the world know what was happening. By using tools that the regime underestimated, activists were able to spread hope, not only to Egyptians, but also worldwide, encouraging other repressed populations to attempt something similar in their countries. Because of the protests, President Mubarak stepped down and turned his power over to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces; however, at the time of publication, protests continue in an effort to speed the process of what many Egyptians see as extinguishing the last remnants of the old regime. Without social media allowing Egyptians to communicate with the outside world, the government would have been able to quickly suppress the protests.
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Role of Social Media in the Revolution Philip Howard (2011) quoted an activist in Cairo as saying, "We use Facebook to schedule the protests, Twitter to coordinate, and YouTube to tell the world." This statement sums up the use of social media in the protest. Newsweek.com offers a collection of videos that are posted chronologically: http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/28/youtube-captures-scenes-from-egypt-protests.html. Newsweek calls it the Facebook Revolt; in fact, it could also be called the Twitter Revolution, the first of its kind. However, not everyone agrees with the Facebook Revolution concept. Malcom Gladwell believes that the influence of social media is limited, and the revolutions would have happened anyway: "I mean, in cases where there are no tools of communication, people still get together. So I don't see that as being… in looking at history, I don't see the absence of efficient tools of communication as being a limiting factor on the ability of people to socially organize" (Ingram, 2011).
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Kids become literate faster with multimedia technology | abc7news.com - 0 views
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using technology in school is helping the growth of children and developing a stronger learning process and technique. Utilizing these applications helps to keep the children more interested in their school work and the tend not to lose focus
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The study concluded that children, especially in low income groups, learned an average of 7.5 more letters than children who didn't use the system during the same time period.
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A new study indicates that preschoolers become literate faster in a curriculum that uses video and online technology. Menlo Park's SRI International conducted the research at a school in East Palo Alto. Do literacy skills increase when preschool classrooms incorporate video and games? To answer that question, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting commissioned Education Development Corporation and SRI International. They studied 80 classrooms from New York to Ravenswood Child Development Center in East Palo Alto, where Tanya Senegal teaches 4-year-olds. "They're great," she says. "As you can see, they're eager, they love the sound, they love the music. And I like the fact that they can get up and be engaged with the video. They don't have to just sit."
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A wiki (i/ˈwɪkiː/ wik-ee) is a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser usually using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.[1][2][3] Wikis are powered by wiki software. Most are created collaboratively.
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Education World: Does Texting Harm Students' Writing Skills? - 0 views
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“the new policy on dress code they handed out last week is our last chance 2 keep us out of uniforms. the new super intendant as u all know is from spartanburg is using the saturday school crap 2 take a note on how many offenses we have & will use it 2 make her decision. so we ned 2 stop breaking the dress code or we might have 2 really fight uniforms next year.”
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This is a really good example of what today students write like in a socail setting.
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“dont worry abt us wearing uniforms nxt year. our parents wont buy them & the district cant even give us the first set cuz our parents pay the taxes & we cant afford them. so get ur parents opinion & make them disagress with uniforms!”
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collaboration - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com - 0 views
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llaboration When you join a group of friends to build a huge sandcastle on the beach, your impressive structure is the result of collaboration, or working together toward a common goal. Working with another person — or a group of people — to make something together is collaboration. You can also describe the result of your work, like the elaborately decorated cake you made with your best friend, as a collaboration. During World War II, the word collaboration began being used to mean "working traitorously with an enemy," and became a very serious crime. DEFINITIONS OF: collaboration 1 n act of working jointly “they worked either in collaboration or independently” Synonyms: coaction Type of: cooperation joint operation or action n act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country Synonyms: collaborationism, quislingism Type of: cooperation joint operation or action Learn Add to List... Launch WORD FAMILY collaborationcollaborationscollaborationismcollaboratecollaboratedcollaboratingcollaborationcollaborativecollaboratorthe "collaborate" family USAGE EXAMPLES I saw women head to the dressing ro
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"collaboration When you join a group of friends to build a huge sandcastle on the beach, your impressive structure is the result of collaboration, or working together toward a common goal. Working with another person - or a group of people - to make something together is collaboration. You can also describe the result of your work, like the elaborately decorated cake you made with your best friend, as a collaboration. During World War II, the word collaboration began being used to mean "working traitorously with an enemy," and became a very serious crime."
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How companies used social media during Hurricane Sandy | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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the company had only set up in June gained an extra 16,000 followers over the storm.
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"The most important thing we gained from all of this is people notice someone is paying attention",
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Con Edison, MTA and JetBlue gathered to discuss their interactions with people through the storm and how that had changed their practices after Sandy moved on.
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Aaron Donovan, media liaison at the MTA, said the agency had focussed on Twitter, Flickr and YouTube in its Sandy response, but noted that "Twitter had the broadest pick up in a very immediate way
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He said MTA employees were encouraged to take photos and video while they were out inspecting lines or surveying damage
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The photos that we send out in real time are the photos that get the largest pick up.
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"First to communicate changes to service then throughout the storm itself," he said, but later to let people know what they are doing to update service
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We have incoming tweets asking us questions all the time. We do not have the resources to respond to each and every questions all the time," he said. Instead, "the incoming feed is almost as important as the outgoing feed"
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Issues to Consider When Implementing Digital and Media Literacy Programs | KnightComm - 0 views
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the content of this article has been proven over and over again and everytime you watch one of your favorite viral videos made by an 8th grader!
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concern is whether people will be able to transfer their self-developed digital skills beyond their affinity groups, fan communities or local social cliques.
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, we should not assume they are digitally literate in the sense that we are discussing it here (Vaidhyanathan, 2008).
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For young people today, it is vital that formal education begin to offer a bridge from the often insular and entertainment-focused digital culture of the home to a wider, broader range of cultural and civic experiences that support their intellectual, cultural, social and emotional development.
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this article shares and discusses the importance of media literacy and the need to learn so that we may embrace our social parameters
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simply buying computers for schools does not necessarily lead to digital and media literacy education. Schools have a long way to go on this front. Access to broadband is a substantial issue as diffusion is uneven across American cities and towns (Levin, 2010).
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andatory Internet filtering in schools means that many important types of social media are not available to teachers or students. And though there are computers with Internet access in most classrooms, fewer than half of American teachers can display a website because they do not have a data projector available to them.
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Many American parents mistakenly believe that simply providing children and young people with access to digital technology will automatically enhance learning.
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the “soccer mom” has been replaced by the “technology mom” who purchases a Leapfrog electronic toy for her baby, lap-surfs with her toddler, buys a Wii, an xBox and a Playstation for the kids and their friends, puts the spare TV set in the child’s bedroom, sets her child down for hours at a time to use social media like Webkinz and Club Penguin, and buys a laptop for her pre-teen so she will not have to share her own computer with the child.
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In many American homes, the computer is primarily an entertainment device, extending the legacy of the television, which is still viewed for more than 3 hours per day by children aged 8 to 18, who spend 10 to 12 hours every day with some form of media (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2010). The computer is used for downloading music, watching videos, playing games and interacting on social networks.
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Content risks – This includes exposure to potentially offensive or harmful content, including violent, sexual, sexist, racist, or hate material. Contact risks – This includes practices where people engage in harassment, cyber bullying and cyber stalking; talk with strangers; or violate privacy. Conduct risks – This includes lying or intentionally misinforming people, giving out personal information, illegal downloading, gambling, hacking and more.
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For example, when it comes to sexuality, both empowerment and protection are essential for children, young people and their families. Young people can use the Internet and mobile phone texting services to ask difficult questions about sexuality, get accurate information about sexual heath and participate in online communities. The Internet also enables and extends forms of sexual expression and experimentation, often in new forms, including webcams and live chat. Pornography is a multibillion dollar industry in the United States. In a country with the highest teenage pregnancy rate of all Western industrialized countries in the world, a recent report from the Witherspoon Institute (2010) offers compelling evidence that the prevalence of pornography in the lives of many children and adolescents is far more significant than most adults realize, that pornography may be deforming the healthy sexual development of young people, and that it can be used to exploit children and adolescents. Teens have many reasons to keep secret their exposure to pornography, and many are unlikely to tell researchers about their activities. But about 15 percent of teens aged 12 to 17 do report that they have received sexually explicit images on their cell phones from people they knew personally (Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2009).
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Expanding the Concept of Literacy. Make no mistake about it: digital and media literacy does not replace or supplant print literacy. At a time when the word “text” now means any form of symbolic expression in any format that conveys meaning, the concept of literacy is simply expanding. Literacy is beginning to be understood as the ability to share meaning through symbol systems in order to fully participate in society. Print is now one of an interrelated set of symbol systems for sharing meaning. Because it takes years of practice to master print literacy, effective instruction in reading and writing is becoming more important than ever before. To read well, people need to acquire decoding and comprehension skills plus a base of knowledge from which they can interpret new ideas. To write, it is important to understand how words come together to form ideas, claims and arguments and how to design messages to accomplish the goals of informing, entertaining or persuading.
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EBSCOhost: ETIQUETTE ONLINE: From NICE to NECESSARY. - 0 views
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I like her example of proper etiquette, how american and japanese ways of getting a gifted.
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mentions problems being online, such as grammar, editing, and others online.
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Netiquette-the usual approach is to develop written list of rules for online behavior.
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Timeline: Egypt's revolution - Middle East - Al Jazeera English - 1 views
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The man now second-in-command is Omar Suleiman, the country's former spy chief, who has been working closely with Mubarak during most of his reign
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n a statement released in Berlin, the leaders of Britain, France and Germany say they are "deeply worried about the events in Egypt".
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January 30: Thousands of protesters remain in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
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"What we started can never be pushed back"
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Turkey has announces that it is sending aircraft to evacuate its citizens, after the US embassy in Cairo has advised all Americans currently in Egypt to consider leaving as soon as possible.
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January 31: Mubarak still refuses to step down, amid growing calls for his resignation. Protesters continue to defy the military-imposed curfew. About 250,000 people gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square and hundreds march through Alexandria.
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Internet access across Egypt is still shoddy according to most reports.
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Egypt's new vice-president promises dialogue with opposition parties in order to push through constitutional reforms
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Protesters remain camped out in Tahrir Square from a variety of political and demographic groups.
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The White House says the Egyptian government must engage with its people to resolve current unrest. Obama's spokesperson, Robert Gibbs, says the crisis in Egypt "is not about appointments, it's about actions ... They have to address freedoms that the people of Egypt seek".
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Opposition groups continue to call for a "million man march" and a general strike on Tuesday to commemorate one week since the protests began. Meanwhile, the military reiterates that it will not attempt to hurt protesters.
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Former US president Jimmy Carter calls the unrest in Egypt an "earth-shaking event", and says he guesses Hosni Mubarak "will have to leave", the US Ledger-Enquirer reports.
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President Mubarak tells his new prime minister, Ahmad Shafiq, to keep government subsidies and cut prices.
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February 1: Hosni Mubarak announces in a televised address that he will not run for re-election but refuses to step down from office - the central demand of the protesters.
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S President Barack Obama praises the Egyptian military for their patriotism and for allowing peaceful demonstrations. He says only the Egyptian people can determine their leaders.
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Number of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square are revised to more than a million people. Thousands more take to the streets throughout Egypt, including in Alexandria and Suez.
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February 2: Preparations begin for another day of demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak's regime. The army is still deployed with tanks throughout different positions in and around Tahrir Square.
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Violent clashes rage for much of the day around Tahrir Square in central Cairo. Up to 1,500 people are injured, some of them seriously, and by the day's end at least three deaths are reported by the Reuters news agency quoting officials.
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Pro-democracy protesters say the military allowed thousands of pro-Mubarak supporters, armed with sticks and knives, to enter the square.
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ebruary 3: Bursts of heavy gunfire early aimed at anti-government demonstrators in Tahrir [Liberation] Square, leave at least five people dead and several more wounded, according to reports from Cairo.
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Sustained bursts of automatic weapons fire and powerful single shots begin at around around 4am local time (02:00GMT) and continue for more than an hour.
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February 4: Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square for what they have termed the "Day of Departure".
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February 5: Thousands who remain inside Tahrir Square fear an approaching attempt by the military to evacuate the square.
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January 25: On a national holiday to commemorate the police forces, Egyptians take to the streets in large numbers, calling it a "day of rage".
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January 2011: Activists in Egypt call for an uprising in their own country, to protest against poverty, unemployment, government corruption and the rule of president Hosni Mubarak, who has been in power for three decades.
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ours after the countrywide protests begin, the interior ministry issues a statement blaming the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's technically banned but largest opposition party, for fomenting the unrest - a claim that the Muslim Brotherhood denies.
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Protest organisers heavily relied on social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.
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hosni mubarak in power for 3 decades, musilim brother hood is blamed for outrage in cairo but deny all accounts, protest organizers used social media sites such as facebook and twitter to rally up protestors!
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January 27: Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the UN nuclear watchdog turned democracy advocate, arrives in Egypt to join the protests.
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Police uses teargas and fire hoses to disperse protesters, 55 protesters and 15 police injured as of january 27th. As protests continue, hundreds are arrested a 17 year old is killed in Cairo by exchange of police gunfire.
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social media sites and blackberry messenger is disrupted as country prepares for new waves of protest. Egypt warns of decisive measures, meanwhile 11 civilians are killed an 170 are injured. Troops are order to the streets but told not to interfere. jan 29th, mubarak refuses to step down, whereabouts are unknown.
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Britain, France, and Germany are worried about events taking place in Cairo. jan 31st, internet connections are still subpar. military reiderates they will not harm protesters.
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The Egyptian health minister says 11 people have died, while the United Nations says 300 people may have been killed across the country since protests began. News agencies have counted more than 150 dead in morgues in Alexandria, Suez and Cairo.
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Reuters quotes Egyptian state TV as saying "terrorists" have targeted an Israel-Egypt gas pipeline in northern Sinai.
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Leaked US diplomatic cables suggest Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, long sought to demonise the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in his contacts with skeptical US officials.
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February 6: The Muslim Brotherhood says in a statement that it "has decided to participate in a dialogue round in order to understand how serious the officials are in dealing with the demands of the people". Banks officially re-open for 3.5 hours, and traffic police are back on the streets in Cairo, in attempts to get the capital to start returning to normal.
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Feb 13th: heavy gunfire opened at protest administrators 5 killes several wounded, country enters its 11th day of unrest. death toll reaches about 300 countrywide. Egyptian state TV says "terrorists" targeted the gas pipeline in norther sinai. Muslim brotherhood decided to participate in order to understand how serious officials are dealing with demands of the people. banks reopen for 3.5 hours in attempt to return state to normal.. Hilary Clinton states "harassment must stop".
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February 7: Thousands are camping out in Tahrir Square, refusing to budge. While banks have reopened, schools and the stock exhange remain closed.
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A symbolic funeral procession is held for journalist Ahmed Mahmoud, shot as he filmed the clashes between protesters and riot police from his Cairo office. Protesters are demanding an investigation into the cause of his death
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Egypt's government approve a 15 per cent raise in salaries and pensions in a bid to appease the angry masses.
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February 8: Protesters continue to gather at Tahrir Square, which now resembles a tented camp. Protesters in the capital also gather to protest outside parliament.
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ebruary 9: Labour unions join protesters in the street, with some of them calling for Mubarak to step down while others simply call for better pay. Masssive strikes start rolling throughout the country.
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Famous Arab pop star Tamer Hosni visits Tahrir Square, but protesters are unimpressed and angered. Hosni previously made statements telling the demonstrators to leave the square, saying that Mubarak had offered them concessions.
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Thirty-four political prisoners, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood, were released on Tuesday, according to Egyptian state television.
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Human Rights Watch says that 302 people have been killed since the start of Egypt's pro-democracy uprising. Based on visits to a number of hospitals in Egypt, the organisation says that records show the death toll has reached 232 in Cairo, 52 in Alexandria and 18 in Suez.
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Attributing the information to Egyptian security officials, Reuters reports that several protesters suffered gunshot wounds and one was killed when 3,000 protesters took to the streets in Wadi al-Jadid, where clashes from the previous nights carried over to the early hours.
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Citing medics, AFP news agency reports five were dead and 100 are wounded in the clashes that have been going on for two days.
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feb.7th schools, banks and stock exchange have reopened. government approves 15 cent raise in salaries and pensions trying to please the mass. protesters still camping in Tahrir square. feb 9th-34 prisoners released, Human Rights Watch says 302 have been killed death toll is: 232 dead in Cairo, 52 in alexandria and 18 in suez.
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ebruary 10: The newly appointed Culture Minister, Gaber Asfour, quits. His family says it's due to health reasons but Egypt's main daily newspaper al-Ahram says Asfour, who is also a writer, was criticised by his literary colleagues for taking the post. He was the only new face in the new cabinet.
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The criminal court in Egypt has endorsed the decision of banning three former ministers from leaving the country and the government has also frozen their assets.
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rotesters in Tahrir Square react with fury when Mubarak says he's remaining in power until September. Protesters wave their shoes in the air, and demand the army join them in revolt.
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February 12: People celebrate in Tahrir Square until early morning. Pro-democracy protesters start to clean the square.
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February 13: Soldiers try to remove the remaining protesters in Tahrir Square and their tents are dismantled. Traffic flows through the square for the first time since the protests began.
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The cabinet spokesman says the cabinet, appointed when Mubarak was still in office, will not undergo a major reshuffle and will stay to oversee a political transformation in the coming months.
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About 2,000 policemen hold a protest outside the interior ministry, demanding better wages and trying to clear the bad reputation they have.
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Some other public sector workers and bank employees are also protesting in Alexandria and other cities.
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ebruary 14: Protesters leave Tahrir Square in the morning but a few thousands return later, most of them protesting against the police.
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Police, ambulance drivers and other workers are holding separate demonstrations.
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The military leadership issues "Communique No 5", calling for national solidarity and criticising strike action. it urges workers to play their role in reviving the economy.
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reuters reports several protesters with gunshot wounds, 1 was killed. Feb 10th: Newly appointed culture minister quits due to health reasons stated by family. Mubarak gives another speach promising not to run for any new elections and plans for peaceful order in september, while protesters raise their shoes in outrage! Feb11th mubarak resigns as president and hands his power to the army. annoucement made by Omar Suleiman. peaople in Tahrir square celebrate. Feb 13th.- Soldiers remove the remaining protesters traffic begins to flow through the sqaure as usual. 200 policemen protestdemanding better wages.
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1) Content and Credibility a. Is the article accurate & thorough i. Yes, very much so. It paints a positive image on the tragedy. b. Does it answer your questions about the topic i. Yes, it focuses on information about the plane and the information surrounding its disappearance. 2) Currency a. What is the date or timestamp of the article? Has it been revised? i. This Article was updated 03/16/2014. There is no record of it being altered or revised since upload. b. Is there information that could be updated? i. No. Because this article was uploaded and published today the information is current. 3) Authority and Credibility a. Is the author identified? i. Yes, Larry McShane b. Can we see their job title or description? i. No. But it is assumed that he is a reporter for the New York Daily News c. Can you see where the article originates? i. Yes. New York Daily News, Page 5 4) Continuity and Comparability a. Will the internet site be maintained and updated? i. Yes. This site is updated often to maintain the most accurate information. b. Can you rely on this source over time to provide up-to-date information? i. Yes. It may not be bleeding edge down to the second up to date, but it is at best only a few hours old. c. Does the internet site contain complete information as found in the comparable article? i. No. Not in the article itself. It does provide options to search for additional articles and provides a way to narrow your search 5) Biases and Censorship a. Does that article seem biased in any way in its point of view? i. Yes, but not in a bad way. It was about how hope hasn't been lost in the search for the plane. b. Is there information included or not included that is found in the comparable article? i. Not currently. Because of how new the article is there isn't really any more information on it. If it included all the information available it would be come hard to read.
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LOAD-DATE: March 16, 2014
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BYLINE: BY LARRY McSHANE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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LOAD-DATE: March 16, 2014LANGUAGE: ENGLISHGRAPHIC: A man cries (top) at prayer ceremony for passengers' family members Saturday in Subang Jaya, Malaysia. Messages of hope outside temple (c.). A family member gets emotional before prime minister's announcement Saturday.PUBLICATION-TYPE: NewspaperCopyright 2014 Daily News, L.P.