Watch Watson on Jeopardy.

Cost saving scheme in Bangledesh "Its backers are confident they can make money from the rural centres through the cost-savings generated by identifying diseases in the early stages. "Bangladesh spends US$1bn on healthcare but patients are not getting the expected care," said Dr Zakir. "If we get to the disease in the early stages, we can save 20 times the money we are spending." "

This is a warehouse of information on digital communication.

Try this little game

This is funny. I did not intend to post this here. :-) It's for my 7th graders. Will try to redirect it. Thanks, Yuval, for the heads up.

describes how this works

Many useful videos on assistive devices for using IT 

I wonder how many students at BSGE think the privacy is dead.

Now, touch screen smart phones for the blind.

Think outside of yourselves and look at the world. There is political and strife and conflict on every continent and there have been natural disasters in both hemispheres. In both scenarios, social networking has enabled people to take care of serious business. Consider issues with social networking that are relevant to the politics and government area of impact. Find articles that can stand up to an analysis that covers all parts of the ITGS triangle. Bookmark your news item to this group and use your source to add to the conversation. We are interested to learn about the impacts social networking has had on society, both positive and negative. What are the concerns from varying points of view?
Procedures:
1. ONLINE: after you read this topic-starter find a relevant news item
2. ONLINE: bookmark the news item, tag it appropriately, cache it, and share it to the ITGS News group
2. OFFLINE: take notes on the news item using the ITGS triangle worksheet
3. OFFLINE/ONLINE: synthesize your notes in order to contribute to the discussion below