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In Denmark, the government has taken the bold step of allowing pupils full access to the internet during their final school year exams. A total of 14 colleges in Denmark are piloting the new system of exams and all schools in the country have been invited to join the scheme by 2011.

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The non-profit that promotes visual journalism literacy in graphics, photo, video and design.

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The Big Picture. Great photos: "People assembling, generating, and building items small and large, mundane and expensive, trivial and important."

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Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly) re:The news from Iran. The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics. A good overall presentation on how web 2.0 technology is revolutionizing the media landscape

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The Museum of hoaxes website has a list of photo hoaxes throughout the history. The website also has april fool jokes, college pranks hoax websites and tall-tale creatures hoaxes

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Compilation of great children's literature news. Offers links as well

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Guardian article about the proposal that UK children should leave primary school familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information and forms of communication.

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Useful when discussing cultures as you can compare the leading news stories in various countries. Good for searching for current events and to see the emerging news. This offers meta analysis of the news. It is a good place to START research

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Turn your favorite feeds into a personal magazine Creates a PDF of RSS feeds emailed to you. It is free and no account required

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Online magazine about global art, design and media culture

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Daily tips and more about digital technology. Every Saturday, Patrick Norton and Veronica Belmont deliver product reviews, computer help, tech tips on everything from iPods to camcorders, HD to the Internet, plus do it yourself projects.

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"Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online attempting to shine light on places and people other media often ignore"

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A search engine that is a good tool for search blog materials as well as otther digital media. Can also be used to follow trends.

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Use NYT data and IBM's Many Eyes to visualize data from the news

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A good collection of some great photojournalism

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OurSignal.com looks at currently popular items on the top social news sites and mashes it all together. The idea is to allow users (you especially) to get a rapid overview of what the latest breaking headlines are at the frontline of the intermatubes. The bigger the box, the more relative votes a story has. The warmer the color, the quicker the story is on the rise. Cooler colors denote negative velocity. Sources are refreshed every 15 minutes.

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An amazing array of front pages of newpapers around the world after the Obama win

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