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Discusses different styles of graffiti in the space of subways.

Really good!

I haven't read it yet

This is about how mass media can take print ads.

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.

This is a critique on (wo)mankind's addiction to risk and the effects it has on the world. Pretty amazing... (i don't really know how i should tag this video)

Wesch talk about new forms of literacy

resource of short talks by cool people

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.

For those of you researching Facebook...interesting article

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1613,156178-252192,00.html here is a glazed donuts recipe, use a chocolate glaze and a voodoo cookie cutter, put a crazy design, fill the middle with red jam, and stick a pretzel stick through the heart!!

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.

This is a TED talk about placing computers in countries where children to not have access to teachers. In doing this, the children become their own teachers by pure interest in the computer, and in the end, they learn just as much, if not more, than children who have access to adult teachers.

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."

Examples of educational efforts thinking about the idea of play