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A) Overview

** Connecting the world online means to have communication and connections with people from ** **all around the world. We communicate with social networking, collaborating, and social media. By communicating online, we are sharing ideas with people from all around the world and creating connections that will last a lifetime. ** **One of the ways we connect online is through social networking, the most popular online activity. It encompasses many Internet tools that make it easier for people to interact and collaborate with each other. A social networking service is an online service or site that’s main focus is the building of social net ** **works or social relations among people who share similar interests.There are many social networking sites, due to the fact that in some countries, people spend over ten hours a day **** on them. Popular social networking sites include: //Facebook, Twitter,// and //MySpace//. ** **Another way we connect online is through collaboration. Collaboration is a working practice where people work together to achieve goals and tasks. Lots of collaboration is involved in business, and being collaborative and applying collaborative technologies, ideas, and concepts are how businesses operate successfully. Collaborating in all forms, including online, helps with better communication, and you get the job done faster when working with a partner or a group of people. Well-known online collaboration sites include: //Edmodo//, //Palbee,// and //ooVoo//. ** ** You can connect online in many forms and ways, but a form of important online connection is through social media. Social media is basically sites with new kinds of online media, which includes mainly openness because you can give feedback and comment on social media. It encourages voting, comments, and the sharing of information. The following are popular social media sites that are visited daily by millions of people: //YouTube, Hulu,// and //Vimeo//. ** **Although billions of people go online daily, many are unfamiliar with the online wonders. Most of us cannot imagine a day without the Internet. While we are all connecting online, some unfamiliar and unengaged countries use the old way for communication that seems passe to us today - talking face to face, personally traveling to communicate. Communicating online has become a daily ritual for us - all we have to do is click buttons and press keys to get our words and messages across to others that are thousands of miles away. ** ** It is better to communicate online because, like mentioned in the paragraph above, it is far more quick and efficient to press buttons to get our messages sent to people with oceans between us, within the second we press “send”. Our new form of communication has allowed people from all around the world to connect and make new connections We are all connected online, like gigabytes, linked to one another. ** **How we people have connected online is magical; through technology and the people who have opened up this whole new world, we are able to keep in touch and have created connections that will last a lifetime.** Mindmap: Every Thing Connects Wiki presentation = B) Current News =

**Doctors are reaching patients from China through Skype, a popular online video chat program. The first analysis with a Chinese patient took place in 2004 with Ubaldo Leli, MD. Leli came to the conclusion that the Skype analysis was similar to any type of analysis. Although Skype can create a sense of connectedness, it introduces issues of language and culture that do not often occur. Hours are also divided by many, 13 with Chinese patients. ** **New Australia Council research shows how art organizations can keep audiences engaged longer with the increase of website visits by their use of communication. According to a recent study, one in three Australians go online to engage with the arts. About 56% of people find arts online, through print media. So now, many art audiences have connected online to discuss art, buy it, and just connect. In this way, we can see that online, we can connect with people through many different things, like similar interests and likes, for example. ** **To connect online, cops are using nostalgia. It’s easy to post words and pictures online, but it’s hard to get anyone to actually care. So detectives are posting old pictures online and inviting people (online) to guess or identify the scene. This recently-created Facebook page has gotten more likes than anticipated. This shows just how greatly we have connected with people online, and how we have connected with online itself. ** **Facebook has gotten consumers all over the world to follow its example and connecting online. Although, Google and Facebook have been frowned on by some consumers because of privacy standards. The Obama administration has been asking them to "develope a common privacy standards". The administration has been trying to enable a web bill of rights to satisfy privacy savvy internet consumers. This will bring the internet to a new level as web componies agree with goverment to ensure safe uses for private information. **

= Areas of Impact =

C) Education

 * Teacher-student interaction has been decreasing over the last decade. Nowadays, you can learn new languages, take P.E., and even learn how to drive online. The Internet has rapidly changed and is still changing. **


 * Technologic inventions are probably one of the most loved and cherished things that people of all ages enjoy in society today. It has also changed education and our leisure **[[image:http://wctaflatclassroom2.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=86 width="200" height="86" align="right" caption="Description: aptop4.jpg"]]** capabilities. These changes enable us to learn in a way that we may be able to understand much clearer. People are constantly using technology to entertain themselves daily. **


 * Approximately 1 out of 3 schools colleges online offer degree or certificate programs designed to be completed entirely online. **** This 34 billion dollar industry has grown from its start in 1971 in the UK. However, in the U.S., the biggest online college is The University of Phoenix, which enrolls more than 500,000 students. **


 * The use **** of technology allows students to more easily grasp the concepts that they are learning. Also a lot of homework assignments and projects are given via the Internet. By doing this a lot of paper is being saved ****, and **** makes students more willing to learn. These ways of teaching are what really motivate students to want and continue to keep learning. **


 * There are so many people today who want to learn a foreign language or maybe even an instrument, but don't have the money to do so. Well with skype you can video chat and connect with people who know how to speak the language. In youtube you can really find anything you want. Guitar and piano lessons on how to play a certain song, dance moves, and sometimes singing lessons. By learning online, we have connected with many more people. **





D) Government, Politics and Employment
** The Internet has influenced the world deeply in the since of politics. The Internet has created jobs for tech savvy people. The Government has also been in the mix with web consumers. The government has been able to connect with people from all over and understand their opinions about things without appearing at their houses. The government can do campaigns online, and voice their opinion about elections or politics. The Obama administration has enforced " rules of the road" to keep consumers private information secure. With everything that is happening in 2012, it would be chaos if we didn't have newspapers, live TV, or magazines available to us online. With elections, politics is talk raved about the most. ** ** However, the unemployment problem is still at the top of most peoples lists. With the Internet, you can search the web for the majority of jobs out there. We will always have the newspapers and help wanted signs, but its just so easy to hop on the net and search for the job that fits you best. With the elevation in unemployment, the Internet is what most people need to finally get back out there. **

==<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did you know the U.S. Government has gotten smarter. If you are in debt the collection agencies can contact you.They will start with normal procedures to contact you, whether by phone or email; then they will look deeper and find your spending and see where you digital footstep has gone and then they attack. Sending you messages private over social networks and sometimes posting it on your walls. The social networks will now be an open door for government operations against their users. ==



E) Arts, Entertainment and Leisure

 * <span style="color: #ff8a00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Arts, Entertainment, and Leisure are 3 great activities we all love and take a part in. Americans ****<span style="color: #ff8a00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">probably **


 * <span style="color: #ff8a00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">spend most of their time with all these so you could imagine //Connecting the World Online// has had an effect on this. One of the best examples of its effects is online gaming. A popular Call of Duty game is Modern Warfare 3. There are about two million people with accounts to play MW3 with around 80,000 playing at any given time in the world. Xbox Live is a game that lets people play games and chat anywhere in the world! As long as you can connect to the internet and have a copy of the game you want to play, you can play online. Gamers seem to love this because they can play competitively with anybody, or they can just set up a game with their family that lives all the way across the world! (1) **

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 * <span style="color: #ff8a00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">With the creation of some technology, we are able to spend our weekends out having fun at the cinemas. Because of the great invention of movies projected onto the big screen, people ****<span style="color: #ff8a00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;"> can now feel free to go watch them at any time. This is one way technology has influenced our personal leisure. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff8a00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[[image:images-1.jpg width="206" height="160" align="right"]] **<span style="color: #ff8a00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;"> Another ****<span style="color: #ff8a00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">way is through all the scoreboards that are in so many sports. Many sports fans look at scoreboards during their free time. It may not seem like technology may impact our lives as much as it does, but from what you can see, there have been so many life changing experiences because of technology. **

==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff8a00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now than ever charities and foundations can find sponsors quick over social media. Lucas Films “the creators of Star Wars” have used social media to get word out about Course of the Force, a 120 mile relay jog from Santa Monica, California to San Diego, California. This rely run will donate $500 to the Make-A-Wish foundation. Runners will buy quarter-miles of the race for $500 each and will join the movie industry with the social networks. Every runner carries a lightsaber and there is other Star Wars themed parties along the way. The race take place from July 1 to July 11, ending a day before Comic Con in San Diego. ==

F) Science, Environment, and Health
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 * You wouldn’t think about //__Connecting the World Online__// having a big effect on science and environment, but it does. __//ihealthspot//__ is a website that allows us to control all our medical info like bills, co-pays, and insurances. It’s helping us connect online from our own houses to medical offices around the world. **
 * Another example would be Web MD, a health search engine that can be used to figure out what illness you have. Hospitals and health offices use computers all the time to find a lot of information. Just like __//ihealthspot//__, scientists have found a way to connect with each other online. Whenever they find something, they can post it to whatever they want and let other scientists look at their findings. So science, environment, and health, have all had an effect on the world. These are just great examples of how they have __//Connected the World Online//__. **
 * (2)Using health information technology to manage your personal health information is an important part of our changing health care system. You and your doctor can better manage your health care by improving how you communicate with each other and how you maintain your health information. Electronic prescribing or e prescribing (eRx) is a way for your doctor and other health care providers to send your prescriptions to your pharmacy electronically. Connecting to the __//Internet//__ is also very good for the environment. It means that there will be less paper being used and more trees being saved. By switching over to the Internet rather than printing information on paper, we are saving the earth all together. **

**Video Artifacts**

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Team Members
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 * A) Overview:**
 * B) Current News: Jhana R. Haddar B.**
 * C) Education:****Celeste A.****Lea Z. Jenna D. [|Alexis G Johana B.]**
 * D Government, Politics and Employment:Celeste A. Jhana R.[| Christian Hill.]**
 * E) Arts, Entertainment, and Leisure: [|Chase S.][|Christian Hill.] Jenna D. [|Eddie G.]**
 * CF) Science, Environment, and Health: [|Chase S.][|Johana B.] Lea Z. Alexis G. [|Eddie G.]**

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 * Content Editor: Lea Z. Haddar B. **
 * Image/Graphics Editor: Chase S. Eddie G. **
 * Discussion Monitor: Jenna D. Alexis G. **
 * Presentation Editor: Johana B. Jhana R. **
 * RSS Editor: Celeste A. **
 * Mind Map Editor: Christian H. Jhana R. **


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