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An excellent way to find creative commons photos. I found this by browsing Mrs Yollis' wonderful blog! http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/

shows the similarities, differences, and advantages of pod casting and blogging

one form of uploading

a page about Skype '3rd Steroid' making phone calls over the internet

This is Google's blog talking about what is current with the company.

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I've been messaging with Scott Newcomb about what they are doing at his school in Ohio and got this message: "Every student 3-5 has their own smart phone (MLD). We are starting BYOD with the upper grades this year." Here is their mobile learning blog.

This article is about companies that have found a way to outsource jobs from the United States without destroying American jobs.

This article talks about Google wanting to be able to scan through its users' emails. It discusses how Google will need to present its idea and case before a judge, before the final decision is made. 

89 out of 144 countries signed a treaty that allowed for governmental control of the internet. Many people do not like this, and feel their rights will be restricted.

This article discusses Hurricane Sandy and all of its effects on the East Coast. Toward the end of it, it talks about how there are teachers from various schools around the country collaborated to help their students better understand the effects of the hurricane. It also discusses how there are some online projects that focus on disasters from around the world. 

This week the Copyright Alert System is being put into effect on the Internet. The system is used as an alert to companies about copyright infringement on their websites. Now when people on the Internet attempt to copy and paste a company's work onto their own work, they will receive a series of warnings. Media companies will observe online traffic and report to Internet providers if they think work has been downloaded illegally. The person who did this will receive up to six warnings and after that service providers can stop their Internet flow or give them up to a $35 fine. This relates to the sharing of information through Web 2.0 because people's work that they upload can be stolen or plagiarized, and this is helping to prevent that by discouraging the stealing of work.

This article talks about how being connected is changing the way we receive and shape information

The Keep America Beautiful campaign is adding a new website to their name. They already have one for the organization, but are now building on it with a website that is called a social volunteer hub. This helps people who want to start their own clean-up project. Through this website they reach out with social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to gain more attention nationally.

This article is about how social networking has changed throughout time and how there are improvements in technology and how people are more involved with social networking. It gives a background on social networking.