0201WarmUp

As a high school student, your entire life has been impacted by the World Wide Web. The web has had a profound effect on almost everything you do including providing an incredible social and entertainment experience. In fact, I just read that 16 year olds no longer feel a need to get a driver's license because they are already sufficiently connected to their social community through social networking sites like myspace and facebook.

And who do we have to thank for this? One person. Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, 20 years ago.

Watch an interview with him @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n4j0r

Leave a comment about one thing that you learned from Tim.

dmac

1105WarmUp

The World Wide Web (www) is the ultimate killer app. The World Wide Web has had a major impact on how we communicate and interact. But what is it? What is the World Wide Web?

Look it up @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

Among the most popular web-based applications are Facebook, Myspace and Twitter?

What are these exactly?

Look them up @

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Among the newest is Twitter, which is gaining enormous popularity. But with so many "tweets" happening, which topics are the most popular? How do you know what everyone else is looking at?

Try these websites:

http://topsy.com/top100

and

http://splurb.com/

Leave a comment!

dmac