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Change my first annotation to this. Its really good

this article by Danah Boyd, she talks about if the social networks are private or public such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.

In the book, In Mind in Society, Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, a Soviet psychologist in the beginning of the 20th century, talks about the role of play in child development.

It is interesting how many people use Facebook as a form of communication between friends and family. Its amazing how people can spend so many hours on Facebook, talking with friends, and meeting new people

explains the pros and cons of Facebook user

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

Immigration stories. Nice model for film project

resource of short talks by cool people

In Social Anxiety and Technology the author Tamira Pierce did a study by examining teens, and the use of the socially interactive technologies. For example social sites, cell phone/ text messaging, and instant messaging. The position that social anxiety plays on how teenagers communicate with others from technology or face to face.

Annotation 1: In Social Anxiety and Technology the author Tamira Pierce did a study by examining teens, and the use of the socially interactive technologies, for example social sites, cell phone/ text messaging and instant messaging. The position that social anxiety plays is how teenagers communicate with others from technology or face to face. The people that participated were 280 high school students, statistics indicate that from those students, 35%-40% said they use cell phones/text messaging and online sites around one and four hours daily . In which females use more cell phones and social networks than males. After these results it comes to a conclusion and affirms a relationship between social anxiety, meaning students seem to be more comfortable to talk through phone, text or use social networks than talking face to face. Females tend to feel more comfortable communicating through phone or computer than males.

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.

From the authors' abstract: "The purpose of this study was to examine the practices of two teachers who had chosen to use the social network site (SNS) Ning to create online classrooms as supplements to their physical classrooms in order to bridge the self and school-selected literacies of adolescents. The study further aimed to identify whether the ways in which the teachers were using the SNS constituted a new literacy practice and if so in what ways. It supports and adds to the new literacies theory in four ways: 1. by revisiting the notion of what constitutes literacy, 2. by identifying attributes that do and do not constitute new literacies, 3. by supporting the view that new technologies do not automatically correspond to new literacies, and 4. by showing that new technologies may end up devaluing other modes of learning."

In about the 30 second mark it shows that unknown people gaming online can come together on Call of Duty Black Ops and mess around as a group while having fun. All it takes is one person to instigate a behavior, to start a chain reaction of communication online. It just goes to show that even when you are gaming by yourself at home, that you can have a conversation with someone that you might not have even known. An Example of this behavior of talking to person online during gaming takes place during the two minute and five second mark. I am going to use this video to show that even when you think you are networking, that you could be. In today's world the ways of communication have opened up significantly. It has opened to the point where I can be in California and game with family in Texas.

how things have changed with technology in our world we live in..Whats new?

This article discusses the importance of fashion and physical appearance to society.

"How Standardized Testing Damages Education," posted on, http://www.fairtest.org/facts/howharm.htm, the author talks about how standardized testing in schools today is damaging to students. The article talks about how the tests are biased but schools are still using it as a measurement of whether the student is ready for school or if they can go to the next grade. They also talk about how the tests have an emotional affect on the students. If a student is not able to go to the next grade, because of a bad test score, it's going to have a negative emotional affect and not necessarily improve their knowledge capabilities.

The National Center for Fair and Open Testing in regards to how they believe that standardized testing has damaged our education system. They begin by discussing how school use the tests the determine if students are ready for school, track them once they are in school, and help to develop and guide our schools curriculum, even though they are incredibly biased and are limited in their ability to measure achievement or ability in the students whom they are testing. They continue by arguing that these tests are very inaccurate when it comes to determining if a student is ready for school because they are 'overly academic and developmentally inappropriate in primary schooling.'

COOOOOL article--loved it.

What is identity? Who are you? Talks about those questions from Facebook. How we now identity ourselves online and offline.

"Nations make war the same way they make wealth"

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

I found this article by Mary Chayko to be most interesting in which she discusses how people create social media communities and bonds based on commonly shared pleasures and interests. She focuses on the "sociomental connections" we form with others.