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An interesting story that describes the changing face of college in America and the global community.  Begins with a very interesting scenario about a young girl taking an on-line physics course in Pakistan and the way her on-line global "classmates" helped her to finish the course after it was blocked by her government.

An article about new, free, online college courses and how they work. Yeah, I'm totally taking one of these.

This link offers an explanation of globalization and its causes/repercussions.

This link deals with the government/economic issues that coincide with globalization (taxes).

This is an online book which discusses all of the benefits of outsourcing and becoming more globalized. It talks about anything from the costs of outsourcing to the pros and cons. It's a great book if you have the time to read it.

This is a picture of James Greenwood, the chief officer of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, before the FDA's hearing on globalization.

"The word "cyberspace" was coined by the science fiction author William Gibson, when he sought a name to describe his vision of a global computer network, linking all people, machines and sources of information in the world, and through which one could move or "navigate" as through a virtual space."

"The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail."

Some great information on the internet and how it has evolved and connected the world.

summary about the book.

" Thomas Friedman's examination of the influences shaping business and competition in a technology-fueled global environment is a call to action for governments, businesses and individuals who must stay ahead of these trends in order to remain competitive."

This website gives you a brief summery of chapters 1- 15. I am in chapter 4 group D. If you are in my group please reply.

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.

This is last years page I think everyone in our group should read it.

Australian effort for instant chatting on a mobile.

The site is now expanding globally but Rodwell, 46, bristles at the suggestion that his creation is just another social network. He says that, while social networks are designed to help us keep in touch with our existing friends, Moko is all about making new connections.

LOS ANGELES - And the Oscar for the best animated short film goes to ... an Internet community? Article from the NY Times about a global collaboration on an animated film...sounds like what we do for flat classroom projects

This tells what the world wide web is and gives the history of it.

"The World Wide Web ("WWW" or simply the "Web") is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, as e-mail does. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web. The hypertext portion of the Web in particular has an intricate intellectual history; notable influences and precursors include Vannevar Bush's Memex,[1] IBM's Generalized Markup Language,[2] and Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu.[1]"

This man is one of the leaders in the globalization of uploading.

Excellent overview of Thomas Friedman's lecture at MIT which gives essential information on the history of globalization as written by a tenth grader. This is excellent writing and a nice overview of what he says in the fifty minute video. (She also embedded the video.) Excellent work. Miller also writes for Terry Freedman out of the UK, in a column called "Ask Miller" and I think her writing skills have been honed and improved as she has written for Terry as a ninth grader. She is a product also of the flat world as she has worked to write in a Google Doc for a person across the Atlantic Ocean!