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Alternate reality games (ARGs) weave together real-world artifacts with clues and puzzles hidden virtually any place, such as websites, libraries, museums, stores, signs, recorded telephone messages, movies, television programs, or printed materials. ARGs are not computer or video games, but electronic devices are frequently used to access clues. Players can meet and talk with characters in the narrative and use resources like postal mail, e-mail, the web, or the public library to find hints, clues, and various pieces of the puzzle. ARGs open doors into the future of students' professional lives, where they will be expected to solve complex problems by taking necessary raw materials from multiple resources, thinking critically and analytically, and putting their individual skills, interests, and abilities at the disposal of a group dedicated to a common goal.

Amazing Open Library for all to enjoy.

Wikipedia's history of google

"Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford[1] working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library." and was funded through the National Science Foundation among other federal agencies"

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

Video library for Motorola about wconn in education.

This article comes up with some interesting questions and gives a quick background to software in the world.

The web in statistics. The number of people who use the web for educational purposes, whether they are with a school or organization or not, is increasing rapidly.

This source outlines the major effects of the world wide web on education. It expresses how the more recent aspects of the internet have benefitted education greatly. It proposes something that is rather shocking, saying that the internet has replaced the library for a large number of people.

Bulletin Board System (BBS) was the first social networking system.

"The term personal learning environment (PLE) describes the tools, communities, and services that constitute the individual educational platforms that learners use to direct their own learning and pursue educational goals. PLEs represent a shift away from the model in which students consume information through independent channels such as the library, a textbook, or an LMS, moving instead to a model where students draw connections from a growing matrix of resources that they select and organize. The use of PLEs may herald a greater emphasis on the role that metacognition plays in learning, enabling students to actively consider and reflect upon the specific tools and resources that lead to a deeper engagement with content to facilitate their learning.\n\nThe "7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning. Use these briefs for a no-jargon, quick overview of a topic and share them with time-pressed colleagues."

This article describes what workflow software is, does, and who it affects.

This article explains MOOC. This is a massive open online course that allows students to choose their courses and level of participation. 

Health Services Research Unit, Department of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK 1Public Health & Clinical Quality Directorate, Department of Health, Richmond House, Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS, UK 2National electronic Library for Health, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK Correspondence to: Dr John Powell E-mail: john.powell{at}lshtm.ac.uk To understand individual use of the internet and its impact on individuals, communities and societies is a challenge that is only beginning to be addressed.

Before the World Wide Web the Internet really only provided screens full of text (and usually only in one font and font size). So although it was pretty good for exchanging information, and indeed for accessing information such as the Catalogue of the US Library of Congress, it was visually very boring.The World Wide Web made surfing the web a fast and easy way to get information

This article gives you 20 ways how the world wide web changed the world for people today.

Helpful example of companies using workflow software.

This website is a helpful summary of the world is flat, particularly about workflow software.  

This is a reading excerpt from edu cause that discusses the platforms of PLEs. It looks into the framework of student study and the affects of adapting to new environments.

"Google is currently the most used search engine. It has one of the largest databases of Web pages, including many other types of web documents (blog posts, wiki pages, group discussion threads and document formats (e.g., PDFs, Word or Excel documents, PowerPoints). Despite the presence of all these formats, Google's popularity ranking often places worthwhile pages near the top of search results."