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YouTube for Schools lets schools access free educational YouTube videos while limiting access to other YouTube content. Students can learn from more than 400,000 educational videos, from well-known organizations like Stanford, PBS and TED, and from up-and-coming YouTube partners with millions of views, like Khan Academy, Steve Spangler Science and numberphile. Schools can also customize their YouTube for Schools experience, adding videos that are only viewable within their school network.

Abstract: This paper examines how teens understand privacy in highly public networked environments like Facebook and Twitter. We describe both teens' practices, their privacy strategies, and the structural conditions in which they are embedded, highlighting the ways in which privacy, as it plays out in everyday life, is related more to agency and the ability to control a social situation than particular properties of information. Finally, we discuss the implications of teens' practices and strategies, revealing the importance of social norms as a regulatory force. (This paper was presented at Oxford Internet Institute's "A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society" on September 22, 2011.) Number of Pages in PDF File: 29 Keywords: Facebook, privacy, youth, teens, social media, ethnography, cultural studies Accepted Paper Series

Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments, too. Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents and videos, and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in five ways: using voice (with mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

A contribution to the EDUCAUSE book, a fascinating and optimistic view on the potential of 21st century education.

According to Wesch, "This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively."

From author Cara Pring: "We all love statistics, specially when they are about social media. I've made life so much easier by compiling all the statistics I could find over the past month or so in one handy bulleted article..."

"It has taken me just one month to collate another 100 social media statistics from countless (reputable) websites and articles (some of which are listed at the bottom of this article)..."

A concise "how to" from Howcast.

MIT's App Inventor provides the technological expertise and resources to create Android-based apps.

Gateway site for WP tutorials

Opening tutorial for WordPresss.

Good for making a business, group, or personal website.

Audacity, a free, open-source audio editing application, that allows users to record, edit, and mix narration and music. The program works well for students editing self-recorded audio clips.

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Access your bookmarks anywhere | iGoogle alternative. This allows for data visualization/mindmapping to compliment Diigo.

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For secondary research, this .PDF with search terms helps you find web information more efficiently.

This guide has been designed for MCC students taking English 102. It serves as a starting point for the researched argument paper (wp1 and wp2). Use the tabs at the top of the guide to get started finding, using and evaluating information for your assignments.

Essential resource to find opposing viewpoints, get credible research, and stay informed on your chosen topic.