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This article talks about how children are changing their own literacy experiences in chat rooms, blogs, and emails. It is saying that now a days children sit in these structured classrooms and correct teachers and listen to lectures when their world they are living in is more technologically updated and high speed and better for their learning than these structured classrooms. It is based on how we can now have these things called "constructivist classrooms" which are classrooms with different levels of learning so that every child can learn this new world in all kinds of different ways says the article. It ties in how the internet can changes ways of teaching and can help teachers from everywhere learn more about their own teaching. This article hits all the highlights of how the internet affects us in daily lives and it talks about all the uses of it that can be used.

In this article it states some facts that about who bullies, what cyber bullying is and if there is a way to stop it. Attacking someone on the internet is a lot easier to do because it can be from someone anonymous. It states in the article that most of the time the victim is someone that goes to the bully's school. The parents so be involved in the children's lives and ask question. Do not assume they are doing something bad on the internet. "All school children in the UK are taught to "zip it, block it and flag it" -- don't share information, block contacts and tell an adult."

This video is about how social media affects the amount of time and relationship that technology is being involved in between people.

This video is about how internet such as, cell phones, text messages, and emails are used everyday; whether it's at work, school, long distances and etc.

This video talks about how people worry that all the texting, e- mailing and Facebook are spoiling human intimacy but Stefana Broabent the narrator explains how they help more in keeping in contact with family and friends

This article by Johnathan Last focuses on the spread of religion techniques and religious ministry through the Internet.

This article talks about the increase in usage of the internet, cell phone technology, game tech, wireless by age, internet usage by age, ethnicity, class, year, twitter, and other social networks. This article is very useful for anyone who needs information on how teens today have become the majority of tench users in todays's world. Very interesting

This short article talks about how terrorist are now starting to use the internet to plan, network, and even raise money to be able to bomb the United States instead of trying to destroy it (the internet).

I stumbled upon this article today when i typed in pandora, and i happen to use the internet radio all the time; this article talks about how pandora works, and all of the odds and ends that you really wonder about when you think of the internet radio. So if this seems of interest to you i recommend you read it :)

This article explains about how the internet should take religion as a more serious topic because religion is an important topic for many people.

The video I saw on C-Spanvideo.org called, Use of the Internet by Terrorists, discussed how the terrorists use the internet to recruit members into their "gang." It also goes over how different sites are made to attract different audiences and give people a sense of belonging.

This article is about the increase of teens using social networking and also the need to belong, collective self-esteem, and internet self-efficacy.

An expansion program was voted on to improve digital literacy in schools such as add faster internet connections in all school libraries.

Good information about do students or teens even know what Bullying is and what do they think about it on the Internet. Group of students are interviewed about bullying.

In this chapter, Whispers in the Classsroom, the author Sarita Yardi discusses how we can import kids internet use home into the classroom, through simple procedure's such as chartrooms and exploring the internet. The author uses various studies to show simple tools could enhance student learning as well as motivate them to try to learn. On study in particular was done at a university, where a chat room was created. As the year progresses students began to log onto to the chat room more and at the end of the year there were over "300,000 user entries."

The article focuses on the increased popularity in online social networks like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, social media, and user generated content. The author states that these sites have redefined the way the Internet functions because they incorporate the features that allow Internet users to publish opinions, connect, build community, or produce and share content. Video sharing is the fastest-growing platform in history, according to the author. The author also explains how this social revolution is impacting the field of marketing research.

the article was about how our race, gender, and class are classified on the internet.

The article I am Reading is about music and copyright laws. Also, how the internet has changed the way music is distributed and how this affects the copyright laws.

This article discussed how college students behavior changes differently from all the violent that they seen in the games and internet.

In this video, Clay Shirky talks about how the media as developed over the hundreds of years until the 20th century. One media as stated by Clay, such as internet, is the first medium in history which supports both groups and conversations at the same time. The media is also becoming more social, with social connections, a combination of newspaper, telegraph, telephone, movies, televisions, etc.. It was because of the internet, specifically Twitter, that let the world knows beforehand that an earthquake was happening in China before the news and the China government even knows about it. The media, a global, social, ubiquitous, and cheap place, is a way of creating an environment for assembling and supporting groups.

Its amazing of how the media changed so much in history.

This was back in 2009 so this video does not have to do with Egypt at all. This video points out all the media changes over the years.

This article is about how terrorists use the internet to send out information to other terrorists around the world and the others that are part of their clan.