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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

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.

This video is based on the work of Sir Ken Robinson who emphasizes the importance of teaching relevant information to today's youth to further united them. A degree is not a guarantee of a future career anymore and here he discusses the economic impact of teaching relevant information and recognizing different learning styles and types of intelligence.

I did a Tumblr post around this video a few weeks ago, and I found it very thought provoking. This video could easily be related to Michael Welsh's video about technology in schools.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Parents often have to convince their kids to stop playing video games and do their homework. But now some schools are using video games in their curriculum to teach students some very important lessons. Not only do students at IS 123 get to play educational video games, they have a choice of games to play.

Quote from Introduction, "While teenage conflict is nothing new, today's gossip, jokes, and arguments often play out through social media like Formspring, Twitter, and Facebook. Although adults often refer to these practices with the language of "bullying," teens are more likely to refer to the resultant skirmishes and their digital traces as "drama."

This is so great. I want a dog to do this after I was gone for a while.

Features clips from various popular YouTube videos.

Google Images. This picture is really funny and a representation of online dating

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The creator of Doritos has died at the age of 97, and his family plans to toss the snack chips into his grave as a tribute.

While some interpret popularity to mean ''widely liked,'' or accepted by one's peer group members (Bukowski, 1989), others see it as being ''socially dominant'' (Parkhurst &Hopmeyer, 1998, p. 138). Social network researchers often leave the definition to survey respondents and simply ask: ''Who on this list is popular?'' or they ask ''Who on this list is a friend of yours?''

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If we can't find that on our own by this point, I think we're in serious trouble.

Who am I? How does our development of online identities affect our development of offline identities?

In this technology-centric classroom, students are bent over laptops, some blogging or building Facebook pages from the perspective of Shakespeare's characters. One student compiles a song list from the Internet, picking a tune by the rapper Kanye West to express the emotions of Shakespeare's lovelorn Silvius.

The founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes its subculture, some of the Internet "memes" it has launched, and the incident in which its users managed a very public, precision hack of a mainstream media website. The talk raises questions about the power -- and price -- of anonymity.

"A few weeks ago I was over at my Aunt and Uncle's place helping them re-jailbreak a first generation iphone I had bought for them in Augusta last spring. Our conversation drifted into why they both haven't signed up on faceboook yet. The short answer was - they are already connected to their friends."

After I wrote this column about Facebook I found I had extra bonus thoughts so I decided to put at least a few of them here. When Gawker Media announced that all employees we were required to have Facebook profiles, in 2007, some of my coworkers were decidedly un-thrilled at this encroachment on their private lives.

We all know that teen bullying - both online and offline - has devastating consequences.

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?