I used this video as the conclusion to my senior thesis paper that stated the mainstreaming of mildly disabled students positively effects all groups of students both socially and academically. Very uplifting!

http://youtu.be/T1gZ0xszDmc

Why Are We Here? Connection

 When you think about life - why are you here?


Think about the Four Priniciples:
Collaboration
Transparency
Sharing
Empowerment

Don Tapscott on Empowerment:

To me, this is not an information age, it's an age of networked intelligence. It's an age of vast promise, an age of collaboration, where the boundaries of our organizations are changing, of transparency, where sunlight is disinfecting civilization, an age of sharing and understanding the new power of the commons, and it's an age of empowerment and of freedom.






 Sir Ken Robinson's full TED Talk

More notes to will be forthcoming, but in the meantime here's this week's queries and comments on: http://todaysmeet.com/TSMwk3

HWK: Video interview your classmate and post to blog.



FYI: KOB's Pinterest Teaching Social Media 

Photos that changed the world

Samsung's commercial, really funny

Samsung released this commercial on the super bowl night, and I think it is a funny and attractive one.

Video

http://youtu.be/fZssv1FcVLA

A little depressing, but it sort of relates to issues happening within the United States as well. And lately I have been sort of keen to the treatment of children in the United States and elsewhere, so this was pretty sad.

Federal Reserve

Recently, I saw a video entitled "the collapse of the american dream". The video itself is about an half-hour long, so you don need to watch it now, though I'll link to it in the bottom. It explained where the local banks get their money from, all the way to the federal reserve. It also explained how the people, the non-bankers, are negatively effected by this trail. The trail consists of borrowing and lending, several times over, all with increasing interest on the way down. What interested me, however, was the fact that the Federal Reserve is NOT a government organization. They control how much money the treasury prints, and get alot of it, though they are not a part of the government. "How does the government allow this?" you might be asking, and the answer is quite dark. The last president to fight them was Kennedy, and we know what happened to him. The final part of the video was how we can stop it, if we all unite against the bank.

the video:

Revolutions Turned to Songs

This article is very interesting, and it shows how people can collaborate and come together to make an impact on their situations through music.  Social media isn't used to create this amazing feat, but it has been used (and can be much more) to publicize this.