Flat Classroom Project

Alfred is a great shortcut and productivity tool for the Mac that received a huge update last week. In case you don't know, Alfred allows you to quickly perform tasks with a series of keyboard shortcuts. If you've used similar tools like Quicksilver or LaunchBar, then you already have an understanding of how Alfred fundamentally works.

In this article the author discusses how designers are using instagram as a mode of inspiration. This shows how virtual communication is affecting art.

This website talks about and lists multiple websites one could use to download music online.

This article talks about the effects of the NSA spying on Google and why they are now suing.

The global policy forum makes an in depth description of globalization on several diverse fronts. It includes charts and tables too.

This article explains the differences between Web 1.0 (push), Web 2.0 (sharing), and Web 3.0 (live). Matthew Hodgson does a good job of illustrating this with pictures and examples.

This article illustrates the positive aspects of educational blogging. The author uses actual students' and teachers' reactions to show how the changing shape of information has increased the capabilities of schools. Basically, the article explains how educational blogging has impacted how students and teachers communicate and learn.

This journal expands on the philosophical disadvantages of Web 2.0 as well as acknowledging the scientific education advantages within a school system. Within a school system, a classroom is started with a base of a higher expectation rate (highly structured), and a control on the primary thinking points of the students (based on scientific data).

Web 2.0, expanding on Health 2.0, includes three main aspects, participation in health, evolution of the web involving a vast amount of consumer engagement, and the new realization of data, which supports the vital decisions in Health 2.0.

This article explains 10 pieces of software and how they changed the world. This ties in with today because we can compare old software to newer software and how it has developed over the past few years.

This article describes the new environmental developments that will affect the lives of everyone around the world. Allowing object to be wirelessly connected will make many processes much easier, but will also raise some questions in society that will remain unanswered until further developments are created.

This is a page on globalization and outsourcing and also some statistics behind it

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

This article discusses how scientists managed to charge a mobile phone through the use of a lightning bolt.

This image shows protests against globalization- specifically, free trade treaties- in Honduras. It shows an important perspective because some of the negative aspects of globalization are sometimes forgotten.

This article discusses what and how Android is and how it works. Because of Android, Apple, and other big companies that produce products that can download games, watch Tv, download music and even movies, society today has been affected drastically by technology,

This article outlined the impacts of different companies on Web 2.0. The companies range from Microsoft to Azure. The main focus is the business aspect of Web 2.0.

"And as the teachers spell out, it is this obsession which has a direct impact on the future of our children - affecting their grades because they fail to complete their homework on time or to the standard required, and being unable to concentrate in class."

Talks about teachers that think social networking is affecting education in a negative way.