3.4+Internet

=** STRAND 3: IT systems > Internet **=

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 * ===**How BIG is Google?**===
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'Only the Best' Links

 * **Link** || **Description** || **Links to Other Strands** ||
 * **[|Howstuffworks]** || Internet Basics contains articles that explain everything about the Internet from domain names to IP addresses. Check out our Internet Basics Channel. ||  ||
 * **[|CommonCraft - Technology Videos]** || "In Plain English" series of videos. These are no longer available on YouTube but can be seen here. A variety of topics are covered including Hardware, Software, Phishing, Blogs, and Wikis. Very clear explanations in a fun style. ||  ||
 * **[|Wydea - Science and Technology Videos]** || A series of videos that explain how different technologies work. A bit like the 'In Plain English' videos. Videos available include hardware, Email, and networking. Best suited for students with limited IT knowledge with whom you need to cover the basics. ||  ||
 * **[|Mapping the Internet: Undersea Cables]** || The article is part of a series of articles from Fortune magazine highlighing the "mapping of the Internet". Additonal links at the bottom of the page. ||  ||
 * **[|What happens in an Internet minute?]** || Download the graphic from the website. Screenshot below.

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**'Only the Best' Videos and Podcasts**

 * [|**Net Neutrality - What it is and why you should care?**] || media type="custom" key="29536745" ||
 * ===**[|Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else]**===

The video shows the power of WeChat - the all-purpose app being copied by Western companies. || media type="custom" key="29047003" || explained by Common Craft
 * ===[|Search Engine Optimization (SEO)]===

'All major search engines such as [|Google], [|Bing] and [|Yahoo] have primary search results, where web pages and other content such as videos or local listings are shown and ranked based on what the search engine considers most relevant to users. Payment isn’t involved, as it is with [|paid search ads].' from [|Searchengineland.com] || media type="youtube" key="hF515-0Tduk" width="560" height="315" ||
 * ===**[|A year offline, what I have learned:]**===

**[|Paul Miller at TEDxEutropolis]**
[|Article: I'm still here: back online after a year without the internet]
 * by Paul Miller**

how the internet makes us lonely, or stupid, or lonely and stupid, that I'd begun to believe them.
 * "**I'd read enough blog posts and magazine articles and books about

I wanted to figure out what the internet was "doing to me," so I could fight back.

But the internet isn't an individual pursuit, it's something we do //with// each other. The internet is where people are." || media type="youtube" key="trVzyG4zFMU" width="560" height="315" ||
 * ===The Virtual Revolution (4 episodes produced by the BBC) ===

|| ===[|All of the video clips] from the series can be accessed.=== ||
 * ===[|Tim Berners Lee on the next Web]=== || media type="custom" key="10685410" ||
 * ===[|Social Media Revolution 3]===

[| (4:15 version via Erik Qualman])
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 * ===**[|Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"]**=== || media type="custom" key="9704868" ||
 * ===[|Warriors of the Net]=== || media type="youtube" key="Ve7_4ot-Dzs" height="344" width="425" ||
 * ===[|The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)]=== || media type="youtube" key="NLlGopyXT_g" height="344" width="425" ||
 * ===**[|Eric Schmidt, Web 2.0 vs Web 3.0]**=== || media type="youtube" key="T0QJmmdw3b0" height="349" width="425" ||
 * ===[|How Search Works (Google)]=== || media type="custom" key="23714692" ||

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