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Virtual communication is a way of communicating with people across the globe virtually at anytime and place. there are many different reasons to use virtual communication. Such as, meetings, conference calls, and even just someone miss that lives too far away. virtual communication is a very good __invention__ but there are some reasons that its not. There could be complications with the Internet or just with the computer, phone, or something of that sort. But its also and easy way to communicate with someone. sites that people use most often are Twitter, Skype, Facebook, or even Tumblr. all these sites help you communicate with someone you cant really talk to in person at that moment. Although __virtual communication__ is very helpful in the workplace, people are not using it as entertainment. children with go on the computer or text for hours a day. This isn't a good thing. children need to go outside and exercise and socialize and they aren't going to get that on the computer all day. some of the bad things that can come from virtual communication if the fact that these kids are using their time to take care of themselves.



Image Source: Virtual communication is more than just a way to communicate, it's a new world! The amazing world that we can't see in our own eyes we can see virtually. With the effect of virtual communication many websites are used for comfortable state or a informational tool. Virtual communication makes the world a little more connected and keeps people "in the know". Every person uses virtual communication either a business man, a student, a child, a worker, manager, or anyone who wants to communicate. We all come together and it seems that people have more ways to connect to others besides the phone. Using different webcam downloads such as Yahoo Messenger, Skype, Face Time, Oovoo, and apps such as Tiny Chat and Viber. With these virtual communicating tools we can now have a world in our pockets.

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**B) Current News**
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Image Source: News in the 1900s were made with ink and paper! With paper boys dropping news door to door on their bikes. It was a simple time filled with printing and wasting so much paper and ink. With the twenty-first century technology your so called “paper boy” becomes your computer. Delivered as a refreshed page from Yahoo or your best friend Google. It’s the most money saving and virtual friendly way to have that cup of coffee and a fresh piece of news sitting, no not printed on a paper, but loaded into a web page on your computer.

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Yahoo, as I critically mentioned, is a great site to get all your daily and upcoming news. With this search engine at your finger tips many things can be done with your liking. You can also find updated news popping in and out of the screen giving mush information as one person can handle. As your crazed mind gets into that news that it was craving Yahoo has worked hard to build it’s site as information based and interesting as possible. Like Google, it brings daily news to the public. Well, did you know the best part of it was?! Wherever you are you can bring your news with you. Virtually news can be heard as well. Virtual communication is everywhere and many people are using it nowadays. Past studies indicate that Barack Obama had 2,379,102 Facebook supporters while Republican candidate John McCain had 620,359. Obama had 833,161 MySpace friends and McCain had 217,811. Obama had 384% more Facebook supporters and 383% more MySpace friends than McCain. In the previous statement, it is evident that virtual communication is making its way into every aspect of the world. “Technology has sufficiently crept into every nook and cranny of our lives”, says **(** **Jessica Lee of Bruce Clay Inc, 2012)**. Virtual communication has also been shown to provide companionship and comfort. According to ProCon.org, it was stated that, “60 million Americans received help with major life issues (changing jobs, finding a new place to live, buying a car, and caring for someone with an illness) from people in their social networks.

 Podcasts is also a way to download and bring news anywhere you want. With apple creating a tool on Garage Band that creates pod cast in just minutes. There are daily news websites such as [|__csn.com__] that loads podcast to bring news with you any where you want. On [|__busi][|nessweek.com__] podcast are created and loaded all day, every day.iGoogle and Yahoo give weather updates on current news and many other subject that might interest a user. When you create an account with these sites they ask for your interest and news that you would like to see every day. As you enter their site and log in they may send or blog news feeds directly on your Yahoo or iGoogle wall.Other news channels are also found in their websites with even more information given than their usual new on the channel. Websites such as: cnn.com, mynews3.com, cds.com, and other news websites show many virtual news.Blogs are also ways to get your news feeds. Like twitter or any other blog sight you can get blogs based on news. As [|__businessweek.com__] create news on the T.V they make blogs based on news every day and around the world. Media Blogs are found on [|__businessweek.com__] and are as news worthy than most virtual news.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">C) Education
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For years, textbooks have been the most important teaching method and tool in all types of schools. But unfortunately, the physical format of the textbook does not easily allow students and teachers alike to spread new ideas from one another to further increase the effectiveness of the work environment.On the other <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> hand, virtual textbooks are capable of moving the learners beyond content mastery to information seeking and problem solving skills. This allows the learner to understand and reiterate information provided by the virtual learning environment. In comparison to textbooks, Virtual classrooms are a better working environment for children of all grades. T oday many people use the Internet for school. Adults are using online colleges to go back to school while still taking care of their busy lives. Children use the Internet for educational purposes whether learning from or at school. Websites like Edmodo and Moodle allow teachers to give out assignments online so students can access them anywhere with Internet access. Google Apps provides applications like Google docs, Google presentation, blogger, GMail, and lucid charts. This way students can communicate with teachers and other students and create presentations and other educational projects.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">As said above text books have been used for many years. There have been new ways of learning coming out for decades. Elementary schools start with the basic stuff with using Google.com and sometimes even use yahoo. They also start with the basic project types documents to create papers, they use PowerPoint to create slide show presentations.Then when middle school starts they go into more of the design part of it. They start using flash and other sights to create games and little cartoons. We then start to use cameras to record morning announcements, some use teleprompters and big bright lights in order to get that feeling that they are really broadcasting the news. As that progresses into high school we start to lean more things such as using Imovie to create movies on things that people would be interested in. Also they start to learn how to type and create websites and digital profiteroles. Schools are leaning that technology would be easier for <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">students to learn and experience new things using computers, cell phones, and videos.

//[|Learning Through Virtual Classroom]// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Elementary** // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Middle/High** // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">College **//

==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">D) Government, Politics and Employment ==

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">E- Democracy has grown through both private and public support. Slowly growing into a Internet power. These platforms have come to give and receive information from anyone who accesses. As well Governments have turned to this for many known and unknown reasons. For example it is used to promote freedom of religion, speech, etc. Although many governments have used the Internet for promotion of rights and so on. The Internet can be used strategically; examples of this can be that it can be used to catch and or analyse terrorist organizations.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">E) Arts, Entertainment and Leisure
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Most people actually use virtual communication for entertainment. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Its used to socialize, keep in touch with friends and/or relatives, and show off our talents. People use sites such as YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Skype, Blogger, Twitter, and Tumblr. People use Facebook and MySpace to talk to other people even if they don't know them. Skype is when you talk to people over the Internet from face to face or from messaging them. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Facetime is similar to Skype but is only available on the iPhone. Blogger is when you just talk about random stuff that you find interesting or look at what other people are saying. Twitter is where people say what they want to say such as what they are doing. and finally Tumblr is a place where people re-blog pictures that someone else posted. These are all sites used for communication.YouTube has a lot of videos of people doing random stuff such as singing, dancing, or playing an instrument. These people that can post videos of them doing crazy things, talking about politics, having music, and even beauty tutorials. but now these people are copyrighting every little thing possible and its driving the government crazy. Although people copyright there is still a website to go to for arts and entertainment.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">F) Science, Environment, and Health
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many years have gone by since the first cell phone came out. The fact that many people are relying on technology more then they are textbooks,, and even magazines for their school projects, papers, presentations. Many schools are encouraging technology to be used around the campus.A school of this such would be West Career and Technical Academy (West CTA), this school uses apple computers and expects kids who have laptops to bring them in as much as possible to use them for various reasons. West CTA is sponsored by Google and each student has their own Google accounts. This is how the new science is affecting students by creating an extended way of communicating and having entertainment. Virtual Communication could affect you health also because the batteries according to studies are said to give off radiation that may cause cancer in the body that the battery is facing towards. This may cause breast cancer in women whom keep their phone in their bra. Those who do not want to have cancer because of radiation given off by cell phones and iPods may be able to stop this by putting the phone/iPod in their pocket placing the battery away from them. Technology affects the environment because in order to have cell phone towers we have to build them and put them around a lot of places to have service which affect the wild life around us and put them out of homes.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **A) Overview: [|Nick Cruz]** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **[|Andrew Brock] <span class="wiki_link_ext">Haylee Thrower Derique Villanueva ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **[|Jasmin Bryant]** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **B) Current News:[|Derique Villanueva]** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **[|Nicholas Cruz]** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **[|Jasmin Bryant]** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **C) Education:** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Alyssa S** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Jennifer A**Khalil Williams <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **D Government, Politics and Employment:[|Nicholas Huff]** <span class="wiki_link_ext">Khalil Williams <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Bruin Merritt** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **E) Arts, Entertainment, and Leisure:Alyssa S [|Haylee Thrower] [|Andrew Brock]** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **F) Science, Environment, and Health:[|Nicholas Huff]** Jennifer A **Bruin Merrit**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Team Roles** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Click here for a description of team roles. No more than two people per role.) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Content Editor:** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **[|Nicholas Cruz]** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ** Alyssa S** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Image/Graphics Editor:** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **[|Haylee Thrower] Derique Villanueva** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Discussion Monitor:** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **[|Nicholas Huff]** **Bruin Merritt** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Presentation Editor: Jennifer A [|Andrew Brock] ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **RSS Editor:** **[|Jasmin Bryant]** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Mind Map Editor: Khalil W** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Group Photo:** Add Group Photo with Team Name. Your photo should be a collage of your group members with the team name on it as opposed to trying to get together as a group to take a picture. You can use Aviary Phoenix to create and share a collaborative photo.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(n.d.). //Types of feedback//. [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/info_7886281_types-feedback-virtual-communication.html

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**Education**__
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Misanchuk, Melanie, M. M. (n.d.). Building community in an online learning environment: Communication, cooperation and collaboration. Retrieved from [|__http://frank.mtsu.edu/~itconf/proceed01/19.html__] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mosenson, A. B., & Johnson, J. M. (2008). Retrieved from http://www.natefacs.org/JFCSE/v26Standards3/v26Standards3Mosenson.pdf

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Health, Science, and Environment**__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Michael, S. (4 Oc). //Can you hear me now?//. Retrieved from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-you-hear-me-now

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cbs news podcasts page - cbs news. (n.d.). Retrieved from [|__www.cbsnews.com__] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Entertainment videos. (n.d.). Retrieved from [|__news.yahoo.com__] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> World news. (n.d.). Retrieved from World News - International Headlines, Stories and Video from CNN.com <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">World wide news. (n.d.). Retrieved from [|__google.com__] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Local news - my news 3. (n.d.). Retrieved from [|__www.mynews3.com__] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Local news - my news 3. (n.d.). Retrieved from [|__www.mynews3.com__] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">igoogle. (n.d.). Retrieved from [|__www.google.com__] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Breaking news, u.s., world, weather. (n.d.). Retrieved from [|__www.cnn.com__]

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