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This award winning wiki from the first flat classroom project does an excellent job of explaning it, although the language is a little bit too first person, not really appropriate for a wiki.

Mobile and ubiquitous computing means that we can compute anywhere any time. This award winning wiki from the first flat classroom project does an excellent job of explaning it, although the language is a little bit too first person, not really appropriate for a wiki.

Massively Open Online Courses are the discussion in Open Education -- I think the important thing is that students want to CONNECT around content - it is the relationships and connections that are so amazing more than just the content. People with a common passion are connecting through the content. The content becomes a conduit.  "Consider Stanford's experience: Last fall, 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in an Artificial Intelligence course taught by Mr. Thrun and Peter Norvig, a Google colleague. An additional 200 registered for the course on campus, but a few weeks into the semester, attendance at Stanford dwindled to about 30, as those who had the option of seeing their professors in person decided they preferred the online videos, with their simple views of a hand holding a pen, working through the problems. Mr. Thrun was enraptured by the scale of the course, and how it spawned its own culture, including a Facebook group, online discussions and an army of volunteer translators who made it available in 44 languages. "Having done this, I can't teach at Stanford again," he said at a digital conference in Germany in January. "I feel like there's a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill and go back to your classroom and lecture your 20 students. But I've taken the red pill, and I've seen Wonderland."

Starting your journey into the online world can feel like a crazy place where the inhabitants speak a totally new language. So here's a glossary of commonly used terms we've created to help you!

read this if you want to know about protocols.

The information which travels over the Internet does so via a variety of languages known as a protocols

An incredible resource from the Smithsonian for educators

An online presence for the smithsonian.

Government organizations like the smithsonian are reaching out to educators and others with an online presence. This cool site has lesson plans and lots of great information for arts, science and technology, history and culture, and language arts.

Instead, the site processes your natural-language query against its database of facts that have been gathered, fact-checked, and organized by Wolfram Alpha staff, according to The New York Times.

The whitehouse.gov will look the same to most people except that what is behind it is part of the open source movement with the whitehouse code - now powered by Drupal -- is open source. For educators, if you've found administrators objecting to the open source movement, maybe you should consider using the white house as an example.

Open source sofware, like that used by drupal, is being used by many more organizations and gaining acceptance in governments now, like the USA with the white house.

As of October 20,2011 Facebook says: they have more than 800 million active users more than 50% of the active users have at least 130 friends more than 900 million interact with pages,groups,events,and community pages; average users is connected to 80 community pages,groups,and events more than 250million photos are uploaded daily they have more than70 languages and over 300,000 use translating applications 75% or more people using Facebook is out of the United States more than 500 million people use an app on Facebook or experience Facebook Platform on other websites More than 7 million apps and websites are integrated with Facebook more than 350 million users have and use Facebook on a cell phone or mobile device

Web 2.0 is an echo-chamber - let's face it. Many deny the fact, but it's true. Ask anyone on the street about RSS, widgets, APIs, or wikis and you'll get a blank face. Chances are they'll think you're speaking another language. Even fairly tech savvy Internet users frown upon such terms and phrases.

This article is about Google Library Project. The Google Library Project allows people to read books in all languages.

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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]"

Massive multiplayer role playing game for learning Mandarin Chinese. Immersion is supposed to be the best way to learn and here it is!

Massive roleplaying game for learning mandarin chinese.

Outsourcing in America