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The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading, from The MIT Press, is a book chapter written by the author Peter Lunenfeld. He talks about downloading and uploading and in the beginning he said, "The computer is the twenty-first century's culture machine. It is a dream device, serving as the mode of production, the means of distribution, and the site of reception." This book chapter is really interesting. It has really good descriptions and will totally grab your attention.

In the article "Identity Management: Multiple Presentations of Self in Facebook", by Joan Morris DiMicco and David R. Millen, the authors primarily address the concept of social networking becoming increasingly popular. They wanted to study how people maintain their self-presentation while also maintaining social relationships in heterogeneous networks. Otherwise known as maintaining a professional and social persona in one network.

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Laura Robb the author of "Multiple Texts" realizes that students are individual and that by being in the same grade doesn't mean they are at the same reading levels. By using multiple texts that are at wide range of reading levels on same or similar topics will let every student contribute and participate.

In the article; "Digital Literacies" a 12th grade project about digital literacy is described. Elizabeth Boeser decided to develop an online role-play scenario for her students. The role-play was centered on the sites that were blocked by the school. Students made online avatars and discussed the pros and cons of blocking certain sites from students. Posts were being discussed after and before school and showed that the use of Ning (the website) showed students a positive way to use the Internet for school. It allowed for instant sharing of ideas. The author then goes into the importance of online identity where students can work with students by replicating, adding, and engaging in information. The four important digital literacy's are also mentioned; multimodality, connectivity, hyper linking, and collaboration.

This article is about video games and the beneficial aspects of video games as teaching implements. This article also addresses the criticisms of video games as teaching implements (will kids become more violent/will kids get less school work done).

I found a short outline from presentation slides on The National Writing Project and it talks about the importance of using participatory media in schools. It has a lot of information about what teachers can do with the media along with some positive input from teachers themselves. It gives a few standards that need to be met by the teachers and then the response they are getting from incorporating those results.

This Ted Video discusses itune, and downloading. David Pogue makes his points while playing a piano.