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Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).[2] Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984. As of October 2009, Windows had approximately 91% of the market share of the client operating systems for usage on the Internet.[3][4][5] The most recent client version of Windows is Windows 7; the most recent server version is Windows Server 2008 R2; the most recent mobile OS version is Windows Phone 7. Contents [hide]

Teachers have a different standard. It is fascinating to read this newspaper article and also the responses. Our students on Flat Classroom project and Digiteen will be reviewing this information because teachers are held to a higher standard online.

Read this to understand that teachers don't really have a personal life online.

Gives reasons why google docs are great for elementary, such as showing their responsibility on the web

This is an article I found on how workflow software has decreased the amount of hours employees have to work.

This source shows the negative effects the World Wide Web has made possible. It explains how facile it is to cheat and use pre-written responses. 

This survey shows that iPad with the $199 price tag is a 'serious" contender for the ipad. I had someone ask me about Kindle fire vs. iPad. Definitely people are comparing it.  Many people are definitely comparing the ipad to the Kindle fire although the Kindle fire has two issues that don't have anything to do with Amazon: the droid OS and the Droid app store. The droid OS still lacks in touch responsiveness from the reviews I read. The Droid app store is a lot more open but also includes more "junk" and even some privacy and virus laden things from what I hear. Does this matter to the average person who just wants a smaller device and a $199 price tag - we'll see. Tablets are definitely in our future. You can see the redesign of women's pocketbooks reflecting this!

This article discusses how the government has been shut down and how it has affected many different jobs in the world. Many people have been instructed not to go to work in these jobs and this has caused distress. Some of these areas relate to things responsible for virtual communication, connecting the government to the steroids.

Digital Underclass & great information from the BBC.

Fascinating listens from the BBC - their essential guide to the 21st century. A fascinating term that I cannot recall hearing is the "digital underclass" -- People who have "no chance of every going online." They are predicting that these people will be responsible for the next shift in the balance of power in the new century.

Seems like an interesting idea to allow a debate, and then others can interact one way or the other. Will the debates use stories as mentioned in 'A Whole New Mind?'

Our first debate focuses on the economy. Economists from the Cato Institute and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) have offered opening arguments on what should come next now that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act is law. Take a look to see what they think -- but don't stop there. As with most articles in Knol, these are open to collaboration, so you can rate what you read, submit comments, write full responses (i.e. reviews), or even suggest edits to the author by making changes right in the knol itself.

Looking back, this is the blog post for me that changed it all - Thursday, October 12, 2006, I reflected on my students writing about Thomas Friedman's book with some great responses -- but Julie Lindsay responded with an idea to join our classrooms together to study these trends and thus, Flat Classroom was born.

Barnes and Noble's response to the Kindle: The Nook.

"Mobile connectivity provides an opportunity to offer new ways of teaching and learning that ultimately will improve performance and results whilst at the same time open up new markets formobile operators across the world. Mobile will increase access to up-to-date materials, will enable collaboration and strengthen learner engagement. In response to this opportunity, the GSMA's Mobile Education initiative aims to accelerate the adoption of Mobile Education solutions; in particular, the use of mobile-enabled portable devices ,such as e-Readers and tablets in mainstream education settings.This global initiative seeks to understand and address the landscape, barriers and opportunities in this emerging market. The GSMA has recently published its first Mobile Education Landscape Report describing the emerging global Mobile Education and related eTextbook Publishing markets. While education systems are country or even local authority specific, we believe that globally coordinated activity drawing on common experience sharing and best practices will be vital to understand and act upon the Mobile Education opportunity. To help Mobile Operators become familiar with this new space we have produced aseries of Mobile Education reports which we hope you will find useful. To get involved, whichever part of the ecosystem you belong to, please contact mobileeducation@gsm.org to learn how."

Posted by Michael Krantz, Google Blog Team Q: What do zippers, baby oil, brassieres and trampolines have in common? A: No, the answer isn't that they're all part of the setup for a highly inappropriate joke. In fact, the above list (along with thermos, cellophane, escalator, elevator, dry ice and many more) are all words that fell victim to those products' very success and, as they became more and more popular, slipped from trademarked status into common usage. Will "Google" manage to avoid this fate? This year has brought a spate of news stories about the word's addition to the Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English dictionaries, an honor that's simultaneously highly flattering and faintly unsettling. Consider, for example, this passage from a New York Times story published last May: "Jim sent a message introducing himself and asking, 'Do you want to make a movie?'" Mr. Fry recalled in a telephone interview from his home in Buda, Tex. 'So we Googled him, he passed the test, and T called him. That was in March 1996; we spent the summer coming up with the story, and we pitched it that fall.'" Now, since Larry and Sergey didn't actually launch Google until 1998, Mr. Fry's usage of 'Google' is as distressing to our trademark lawyers as it is thrilling to our marketing folks. So, lest our name go the way of the elevators and escalators of yesteryear, we thought it was time we offered this quick semantic primer. A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device that identifies a particular company's products or services. Google is a trademark identifying Google Inc. and our search technology and services. While we're pleased that so many people think of us when they think of searching the web, let's face it, we do have a brand to protect, so we'd like to make clear that you should please only use "Google" when you're actually referring to Google Inc. and our services. Here are some hopefully helpful examples. Usage: 'Google' as noun referring to, well, us.

This article provides detailed information on how educators are using blogs. The main points are the benefits of blogging and how blogs are used with students. It also includes numerous graphs and charts showing responses to surveys regarding information change.

A must read about "Growing Up Digital"

Explanation from Wikipedia about QR codes and hardlinking.

This explains what QR Codes are. QR Codes are unknown right know but could start to be widely used in the next few years.