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This article shows how people in Kenya are using technology and the internet to help make this newest election a peaceful one. There were many violent outbreaks of fighting in Kenya during the last elections. The Ushahidi group hopes to end this.

launched the world's first university elective course focusing on internet and medicine for medical, dentistry and pharmacy students

People vote for the first time in Kenya since 2007. This election is under a new constitution that is meant to prevent violence.

This article talks about the use of the web in recent political elections.

Congratulations to Flat Classroom Project Co-Creator, Julie Lindsay, on her recent accomplishment. Julie was elected as the International Representative to the Board of the International Society for Technology in Education for 2011

this is about how Obama used the internet to help him win his election

Looks likely that president elect Obama will support elimination of Daylight savings time in the US. This op-ed piece in the New York times talks about how DST does not link to energy conservation as once thought. The one thing it WOULD make easier is global collaboration - Google Cal doesn't convert to dST until AFTER it happens and we all missed a meeting.

A letter from "Joe the Student" to President-Elect Obama. He needs to keep his BlackBerry and Joe the Student wants to keep his cell phone in school so they both can be part of the 21st Century.

Nearly two months ago, we introduced the Google Elections Video Search gadget on iGoogle, a tool that transcribes and indexes the spoken content on YouTube's Politicians channels. It didn't take long for folks to find some creative ways to use it! Now it's possible to enjoy this technology in a bigger way: We just launched Google Audio Indexing (aka GAudi) in Google Labs. The dedicated site offers more features, such as "search within video" and "sharing," and a more robust user interface.

Could provide a spark of an idea for a section of video?

This article discusses how social networking may impact the upcoming election. This shows us that the social media has a huge role in the modern world.

American politics is transforming due to the Internet. The White House notices changes with the elections through the prompting and rewriting of rules on advertising, fund-raising, and mobilizing supporters. Unfortunately, it also helps the spreading of negative information on Democrats and Republicans.

Discusses the drawbacks and benefits of campaigning online.

Great museum of newpaper covers showing the results of the presidential election.

Front pages of newspapers from today from www.newseum.org -- this is a great read on the history of today. (Thanks Will Richardson for the link.)

GREAT site to take a look and understand how Web 2.0 figures into the elections.

This website had a TON of hits this past month -- in the millions -- 3 people and some spreadsheets did this. (See Tom Hoffman's post for more on it.) I think this is something that the students of the Flat Classroom Project will need to integrate into their work.