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This is just plain awesome. i found it on stumbleupon.

It's super geeky, but super cool at the same time. :D

The Cyberbullying Research Center is dedicated to providing up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents. Cyberbullying can be defined as "willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices."

Facebook is all about the individual and collective experiences of you and your friends. It's filled with hundreds of millions of stories. Which ones inspire you? What's your Facebook story?

Thought that looking up "cyber friends" on Urban Dictionary might be helpful. I thought it would be a little amusing, but it is actually pretty straight forward instead of humorous.

I am the director of technology at the American School of Warsaw. I am committed to strengthening, deepening and broadening student learning through technology. I honestly believe HOW we teach is far more important than WHAT we use to teach. I am a technology skeptic and a technology evangelist.

I found that this video could be directly related back to the concept of using your "exterior brain" Crowd-sourcing is the act of giving a task to an outside group of people...such as Wikipedia. It thinks for you!

Sarah, you might find this interesting as well: http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/how-crowdsource-grading

This video tells a different perspective on befriending on Facebook. He talks about how if you just add people that you don't know it can be dangerous. There have be people who befriend a person they didn't really know and that person ended up tracking them down and breaking into their house and robbing them. The man on this video also talks about how the police are trying to befriend people posing as someone else to catch underage drinking. They are pretending to be a cute girl or guy to find drinking pictures and tracking those people down and arresting them. The main idea of the video is to make people aware that you need to be careful who you let be your friend.

For decades, educators have been scrambling to find better ways to prepare students for the real world. It began with the mildly apocalyptic government report, A Nation at Risk, which warned that an outdated school system was unwittingly sabotaging America's economic superiority.

A quick view with some examples on societal benefits of music file sharing. The Negative effects from this student is http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02241/pros.htm

This article gives a little synopsis on the study done on the the effect of file sharing on record sales. The full paper is http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdf

This is kinda cool and funny. hehe.

This is totally sick and retro. Lol.

This entire website, HASTAC, is pretty interesting. Lots of resources related to teaching and digital media

This article is about how anonymity effects people in online video games, and video game forums. It mostly focuses on the negative effects.

this is a blog that allows people to post how they feel about the lockout at their point

This source is not published through a newspaper, or research facility but yet by an individual man. Because of this I believe it gives valuable insight into how everyday people commonly view Facebook, and our identities.

Facebook, a site primarily used by college students and young graduates transitioning into the work force. The outcome of this initial case study is a framework for understanding how users manage self-presentation while maintaining social relationships in heterogeneous networks.

As much as anyone wants to ignore social media, theres always a way where you can bump into it without even knowing . .

This video shows how people can easily be addicted to facebook and while trying to go a couple of days without it is difficult for them to adjust to a "normal" life.

Talks about how the virtual world is self-controlled. Some people put up things based on reactions they hope to gain from friends. Our identity on Facebook could be close or far away from the truth.