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As I mentioned during the class, I read this article to know media are embodied within activist group, or by their opponant i.e. gouvernments, polices... But what is interesting in this article is to analyze how new media had an impact in the transformation of activist groups, such as for example going from being more local to becoming global. Interesting article when it comes to see how people are in practice interacting with these media.

I agree with Cecile that, this article shows very good results of the interaction of social action with social media tools. The use of social media tools have a greater and faster impact to the society. The information about what is happening around you about a lot of injustice is spreading so quickly. I want to give a very recently example. And International organization was posting via email, fb, you tube concerning a cause in South Africa. They got the signature for this petition in very short time and the reaction of the government very soon and everyone is informed about the future actions to help this cause. It´s amazing when you think how quickly can happen, and imagine if these tools didn´t exist, most probably we will not even know what is happening around us.

I would like to share with you this new project that gives light a new dimension to education using the social media as tool to increase the interaction between teacher and students. The Flat Classroom Project is an innovative approach where educators have built social-networking sites specifically for use in class and home assignments. This project allows communication for students in the classroom, but for them to interact with students in far away classrooms all around the world can reach and learn from each other. A recent survey (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx) from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 73 percent of online teens use social-networking sites. Updating their Facebook or MySpace page has become a regular activity for teens as is using these services to catch up on what their peers are doing. Using similar tools will encourage students to interact with each other, using many of the same techniques they do when away from school but focused on their educational goals. Hope for someone will be useful

Its is very interesting to see that new technologies are more and more taking part of the class as being a tool like any other ones. It is very important to let them get in the class and not leave them out as new media and new technologies are used on a everyday basis by most of the students. One of the most important point of this article to make sure that the use of tools should be customized depending on the students. It is also in my opinion that the more customized the process of learning is, the better will be the learning. Customizing a class lead to a better motivation for the students and so lead to a better learning and more important remembering of what is done during the class. Moreover, I agree with the authors when saying that new technologies should be used and learned from the very beginning of school. As I said, new technologies should not be let outside of the school as it takes a great part of our lifes nowadays. And the earliest it is learnt, the better the students will know how to use them to make them as most efficient in their lifes (private ones, during their studies, careers...) as possible. It is said in the article that this project is used in different countries. However, besides Spain, the rest of them are english speaking countries. How could this project be developed in order to touch more and more countries? Or could it be used during english classes in other countries than the one mentionned?