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This article discusses Hurricane Sandy and all of its effects on the East Coast. Toward the end of it, it talks about how there are teachers from various schools around the country collaborated to help their students better understand the effects of the hurricane. It also discusses how there are some online projects that focus on disasters from around the world. 

This article shows how people in Kenya are using technology and the internet to help make this newest election a peaceful one. There were many violent outbreaks of fighting in Kenya during the last elections. The Ushahidi group hopes to end this.

This article outlines the way that google is spreading everywhere; even in places like North Korea.

This week the Copyright Alert System is being put into effect on the Internet. The system is used as an alert to companies about copyright infringement on their websites. Now when people on the Internet attempt to copy and paste a company's work onto their own work, they will receive a series of warnings. Media companies will observe online traffic and report to Internet providers if they think work has been downloaded illegally. The person who did this will receive up to six warnings and after that service providers can stop their Internet flow or give them up to a $35 fine. This relates to the sharing of information through Web 2.0 because people's work that they upload can be stolen or plagiarized, and this is helping to prevent that by discouraging the stealing of work.

This article overviews what a virtual classroom is. It discusses the many benefits to learning in this kind of environment and explains how to hook students to this kind of learning. Cynthia Calongne states that "virtual class experiences require a blend of technology, tools, content, student ownership, identity, engagement, course structure, risk management, mentoring, feedback, and a good orientation to using the tool."

Google has created a website for students and teachers who need to find resourceful and official articles, documents, and facts in general.

Google branches out in many ways to help teachers and students in general.

Google has created a "GTA" - Google Teacher Academy - where teachers can attend a 2-day academy to improve their technology skills.

Out of teachers surveyed, 94% say that when research is needed, research is the synonym for Google.

This article from the Daily Nation goes over the fact that Google is becoming increasingly large. Google now offers a service that competes with Skype's long distance calling. The apps that Google has makes it more necessary than just an E-mail. Google maps has also made it very hard for other companies to compete with Google.

The article explains the increased health risks due to the use of globalization. For example, the United States has many places that have now banned tobacco use such as restaurants. Therefore, in order to make business, these tobacco companies sell tobacco to the undeveloped countries through the use of globalization. As the usage of tobacco increases in the undeveloped countries, then so do the health risks.

This article is about how mobile devices should be able to improve the lack of youth employment, but we are not making the most of the opportunity.

This article talks about the new developments Google Maps has made. They were able to create a new map for North Korea with a few cities and street names. This is a great accomplishment since North Korea is so isolated. 

This article explains how computer scientists make the software that brings entertainment to the world more efficiently. The software that makes the effects can also help movie makers display their ideas better, thus simplifying communication.

This is the story of e-learning and the history.

An internet hacking group, called anonymous, said they would hack many major websites and disrupt web streams of Barak Obama's State of the Union adress. They are protesting some of the things that obama is backing, such as his cybersecurity order.

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