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In the article "Put forth our best writing selves" by Douglas Hesse's point is that all social networking sites will be the salvation of writing in the U.S.

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In the article "The Remains of Doctor Bass" by Alan Bellows talks about a Body Farm near the University of Tennessee so the forensic science students could learn more about forensics and decomposition of the human body. People who donated their bodies to science sometimes go the Body Farm and the students throw the bodies into the woods and periodically check on them to see how they are decomposing and record it and check the body for insects and other items of disgusting-ness. Their first test was a pig that was roaming around on the land before they had any bodies to watch. They shot the pig and within the first hour of it dying a boss fly had laid its larva into the pig because it was dead and was now food. After a couple of weeks the pig was a stiff and there were wasps, flies and maggots all inside and outside of the pig. I won’t go into details about how the pig decomposed but it was really nasty. If you would like to read the article you can at http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass#more-924

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After reading the article "This is not about YouTube" by David Warlick was kind of a funny article that talked about the problem with United Airlines

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In the article "This Would Be Really Wierd" by David Warlick it talks about how the work force is almost completely dominated by women, which has never happened before. When men loose the jobs women seem to recieve them all over the world.

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The article, "Our Googley advice to students", explains that at Google the employees are all a big team that gets along well. This means that everyone works together as a team and problem solves.This happens because there is so much freedom to say what they think about the projects. With this kind of workplace creativity is very abundant. With good communication skills everybody knows what's going on in the workplace. Since everyone is very friendly and open minded then there is more of a willingness to experiment. Another additional benefit to this environment is when there is a new employee to the workplace everyone will welcome them and teach them the ropes without feeling a sense of competition.

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In the article Keyboard vs. Pen by Virginia Beringer I agree with the results of that article. When writing on the computer I tend to be more lazy with spelling and grammar because I know that the computer will check it and I can go back and fix it when I'm done. While writing I am more careful especially when writing in pen because if I mess up then I have to restart. Since I usually don’t use a keyboard to write, I write I go pretty fast and don’t usually have a lot of mistakes.

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In the article "Footprints in the Digital Age" by Will Richardson, he talked about how his kids wouldn't be able to be Googled well. He's not saying they won't be able to use Google but that when they type there names into Google they won't find themselves like they wanted. This also relates to the Digital Footprint article that we read in class. Depending on how big your digital footprint is, is how much and how widley you will be known. An example would be when while I was reading this article I decided to Google myself and it came up with my science fair ranking in the 8th grade at my old middle school. He just talked about how if you want to be able to Google yourself, then you need to get involved.

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In the video from Mr. Fisch called the 2020 Vision, it described what would happen in the future like Google and Microsoft teaming up and making almost a monopoly of the computer industry and how the 100 dollar laptop project successfully sent it's first real $100 laptop in 2014 to countries like Africa and they were powered by the Google Grid. This is made of highly efficient solar cells. With the price of laptops around $400 they were considered a mandatory school supplies. This meant that everyone at Arapahoe had a laptop so the school was all digitally organized. While in the process of going digital the school brought in Google Cam to make sure, even if you weren't at school, you could still be in the class with Skype and making the video a pod-cast. The school was now completely digital know and they were doing everything to improve it.

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Don't, Don't, Don't vs. Do, Do, Do by Will Richardson talked about how when he went to a school where he presented for the teachers. While he was walking in he picked up a packet that explained what students can't do with the computers at the school, and as he read it, he thought that he would beg not to use the computers because you could barely do anything on them. It shouldn't talk about what you can't do, but what you can do on the computers, like you can publish your best work on our websites and you can edit your papers to make them better to help you learn. You should try to encourage rather then discourage. Some say use the carrot not the stick.