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  1. Olympic Student-Athletes: Balancing School and Sport

  2. Satellite Determines New Birthday for the Universe

  3. The Vancouver Olympics in the Classroom

  4. Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Leader

  5. Seeding the Clouds for Drought Relief

  6. “Temple Grandin” Sheds New Light on Autistic Experience

  7. On This Day: US Hockey Beats USSR in “Miracle on Ice”

  8. Vancouver Olympians: Snowboarder Shaun White

  9. Happy Birthday, W.E.B. Du Bois, Civil Rights Pioneer and Social Historian

  10. Vancouver Olympians: Ice Dancers Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin

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Web Technology Information: A Primer

Would you like to use Web innovations such as podcasts and wikis, but aren't sure how? Find out with the Web Technology Information Web Guide. You'll discover that the Web is filled with instruction manuals to get you going with plug-ins, RSS, mpegs, mp3s, Web 2.0, YouTube and more. For a Spanish-language version of the Guide, click here.

Web Technology Basics

Before you explore all the wonderful media and tools on the Web, it's important to get acquainted ... read more »

News Aggregators and RSS Feeds

Keeping up to date with your favorite Web sites doesn't need to be an exercise in persistence. ... read more »

Wikis

A wiki is a community-produced and edited document. Wikis are collaborative efforts, and can continually change as new users add, edit or remove them.

Insights for Wikis

  • This must be said: Wikis are not always reliable! You don't know who's writing the content, or what their backgrounds and biases are.
  • Don't like what you see? That's the beauty of wikis: You can change them. But exercise caution. Different wiki sites have different policies, and posting slanderous, ill-intentioned information or otherwise "defacing" wiki entries can get you banned from the site pretty quickly.

Top Sites for Wikis

For a wiki definition ...
Wikipedia, a wiki encyclopedia, is the most famous wiki in the world, with the largest user base. Controversial, powerful, influential, Wikipedia is a cultural phenomenon. Here's its take on what, in fact, a wiki is, and how a common wiki functions.
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For other famous wikis ...
Wikimedia.org, the parent organization of Wikipedia, runs a number of wiki resources, all linked to from this page. They include dictionaries, book resources, research source wikis, news, quotes, media and more. 
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WikiHow is a very large wiki how-to manual, where you can get "how-to" advice from people who "have-done." The site is not affiliated with Wikimedia.
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To search the wikisphere ... 
Wiki.com is a customized Google search tool that scours wiki sites. Don't be surprised if Wikipedia, WikiHow or other Wikimedia sites dominate many of your search results; these sites are so large. If you want to avoid this, you can restrict your search to "indie wikis only."
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File-Sharing

Though it's most famous for its illegal uses, there is nothing inherently illegal about ... read more »

Online Media Players

Audio and video can be delivered in numerous formats using many different online media ... read more »

Podcasts and Vodcasts

Podcasts and vodcasts are delivery methods for Internet radio and TV programs. ... read more »

Web 2.0

You may hear the term Web 2.0 bandied around quite a bit today. Dismissed by some ... read more »

Community Links in Web Technology

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