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Given the total population hitting 7 billion, this activity would be an interesting way to generate some classroom discussion about it.

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“Creating, Sharing and Adapting- An Educational Materials Community”

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Facebook hosts 140 billion photos, and will add 70 billion this year, according to the blog of photo-sharing site 1000memories.
Putting this in context, 1000memories made the following visualization which shows how big Facebook's library of photos are in comparison to other photo sharing sites, as well as the Library of Congress.

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Event Eye is an indexed, searchable, content aggregator that pulls together the best content from the web about a particular conference or event.

Event Eye pulls together the conversations pre, during and post event (linking to blogs, twitter, websites and related sites to the content of the event); signposts educators to new resources; adds to the advertisement of an event and helps create an audience-participative/feedback rich event.

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Technology changes so quickly, it's hard to remember how bad we used to have it. UK internet access didn't really take off until Freeserve launched in 1998, few of us had broadband before 2001 and the UK didn't even have a 3G mobile phone network until 2003.

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Here’s a visually organized look at the past 30 years or so of social media history, from Usenet to AIM to Friendster and beyond. This particular infographic comes with some fun facts; for example, did you know that the first version of MySpace was coded in just 10 days?

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Aviary Architect Design Challenge.

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Use it to find the photography you like using the simple idea that people whose work you like, probably like stuff you'll like. You start with a set of pictures - if you authenticate, it'll use 20 of your last 100 favorites - otherwise it'll start with somebody's favorites. Click any picture to load more. Don't like what that person likes? Scroll back and click a different picture you like. It's that simple.

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