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A Youtube video titled, Joel Burns tells gay teens "it gets better" tells stories of recent boys who have committed suicide from being bullied at school.

This is talks about how YouTube analyzes videos when people are uploading a video and how youtube works with copyright.

"Could we survive without today's technology," by Isentry; this was the video that I looked at on Youtube.com for my research. It talked about how in today's world everyone is so dependable on today's technology, that it has enslaved us. It had many great examples, as in we pretty much worship the television, because the fact that we take so much information from it, and listen to it on everything we have to do. This goes from where to shop at, to where to eat, and even where not to eat. It also talked about how many people in today's society get anxiety attacks when they do not have their cell phones, or even just their Ipods.

ImprovEverywhere is a group who conduct a lot of flash mobs all over the US. In this particular video that is on youtube.com. They gathered 207 people in New York's Grand Central Station to do a huge flash mob. They choose and exact second in which they would all stop randomly in whatever position they were in and would stay there till the specified time. They were just randomly everywhere and doing normal everyday things, but all did like they agreed to and stopped. People were just so surprised. They didn't understand what was happening and why all these people just stopped. Some people were convinced they were protesting something or trying to get across a message.

This video is about how a large group of people join every year to show off there cars and just talk about there cars. This is a social event that is famous all over the world but mostly in U.S. and Japan and is uploaded to Youtube and people talk about it in facebook and magazines and is just a big event in the beginning of the year.

This video shows how just by uploading a video to YouTube you can end up in a TV Show!

This article talks about how online communication like social networking sites Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, by terrorists and their supporters. It also looks at how chatrooms and electronic forums are used by terrorist groups to communicate with members and its supporters and to share tactical information.

This video is the exampled show in the "Margaret Gould Stewart: How YouTube thinks about copyright" video.

This video was made by Dan Brown an internet blogger on youtube. He does this video to express his idea that educators to move along with world in the advancement of digital media, if they don't they will be left behind in the world. He lets educators know that they so far they are not preparing students for the real world.

In the video, "Evolving Technology", created by cre8tivem, on January 07, 2009, he brings up many facts about technology that many have never even thought of. It questions your knowledge and makes you wonder about things that you didn't even know were issues or existed. It makes you realize just how fast we are evolving. (It's a good video to get you brainstorming and think about different issues you would like to do a research and has many interesting facts that are useful.)

In "The New Writing Pedagogy" the authors, Angela Pascopella and Will Richardson, discuss how technology and the Web are creating a new emphasis on student's writing process. This is creating teachers to no longer fear upcoming technology, but embrace them within the classroom. Due to this teachers are using "Web-based social networking tools like blogs and wikis, YouTube and Facebook as digital spaces, multimedia texts, global audiences and linked conversations among passionate readers." Furthermore, "The New Writing Pedagogy" has many comments and quotes from professors and teachers of all levels that comment on how they are adapting to "this new pedagogy" and how we are the creators of it.

Many teachers and other school officials in the U.S. are starting to embrace the use of social media in the classroom. With the ever growing popularity of sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Myspace, educators feel that it is important to bridge the gap between the outside world of interactive social media and today's learning methods. Allowing social media and other websites in the classroom has its pros and cons, of course.

With starting kids off young have we caused a new problem with laptops in the classroom? Kathy McManus blogged on August 14, 2008 about the banning of laptops from university classrooms. Within her blog she mentioned that "The laptop--the favorite in-class tool for college and university students across the country-is coming unplugged." Have we been abusing our laptops in class? I am not going to lie when I bring my laptop my browser ends up on facebook, or youtube checking out the newest funny stunt that some kids posted. The blog talks about how when used correctly the laptop can be a wonderful resource for a classroom but teachers cant monitor every laptop all the time.

In the article, "Why Schools Should Learn To Use Online Services Like Facebook & YouTube Rather Than Banning Them," Mike Masnick argues that incorporating Facebook and other social networking sites, would be beneficial to both students and teachers. He says that by trying to fuse these social media sites with the teacher's curriculum, it will make education and school work more relevant to the students lives.

The number of educators who now welcome social media into the classroom is growing. Some go so far as to say that the use of services such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are an integral part of a 21st century education. This represents a sea change for educators. Until recently, most schools banned students from using social media tools in the classroom. But progressive educators say this represents a major disconnect with the world that awaits them outside the school walls. It's not protecting them today so much as handicapping them tomorrow.

Gives ideas on why embracing social media is a good idea. Talks about how a growing number of teachers are starting to use networking sites in their classroom.

Annotation #2 This video was on a school that made video games at part of the school for those students who are struggling to stay focused. Students are able to do work from computer games made by the schools.

Annotation #3 This is about using modern games to teach concepts.

Student's favorite ways of expressing themselves is through Facebook because social networking sites allow us to create a version of ourselves that to a certain extent adequately represent ourselves. There aren't many things restricting us from twisting things around a little bit. Facebook allows many people to see others through a third person perspective, and allows us to see ourselves in a third person perspective as well. We choose how to display ourselves and if we don't display ourselves properly in the work place or even at college, it can come back to haunt us. Your profile is like a résumé, you can change it so you are popular with your friend's, and appealing to their wants and interests or you can change it to be more appealing to your professional provider.

this video is of Joel Burns talking about how he was bullied and how its a serious matter with the recent deaths that have been happening and his message of 'it gets better' just speaks volumes to those who are being bullied and those who can stop it.

In this video Yi talks about the increase usage of google and how it has improve over the years and had been made easier for everyone to use. But he states a problem about how frequently everyone uses it without evaluating to see if the informations are actually accurate.