2. Overview
In-forming is basically the easy access to knowledge . According to Friedman,
there has never before in the history of the world has so many people – completely
on their own – have abilities to share and find information about so many people and
so many things. Now, almost every aspect of the world uses in-forming, like the
government, politics, and employment. Everybody in-forms in different ways.
3. Flatteners of PLEs and Social Networking
❏Blogs
❏Wikis
❏RSS feeds
❏Twitter
❏Facebook
❏Moodle
❏Google+
4. 10 Most Common Search Engines
1. Google
2. Bing
3. Yahoo! Search
4. Ask
5. AOL Search
6. WOW
7. Webcrawler
8. MyWebSearch
5. Information as a Business- Google
❏ Google
❏ Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it
universally accessible and useful.
❏ Google can be a useful tool as well as a hurtful one as information can be false or stolen.
❏ Students in schools use Google to connect to one another and teachers and it makes work
submission easier
❏ World’s #1 search engine platform
❏ Google has created a business by buying other companies and charging for ads.
6. Current News and Areas of Impact
❏Current news is easily accessed using search engines
❏ Wikipedia provides all the information from one topic on one
page
❏ Google provides websites to find information on one topic
based on the keywords that you search
❏Schools and workplaces have been impacted by new
findings
❏Social media has changed the way we receive
information
❏ For example, people running in the presidential campaign, such
7. Education
PLE’s and Social Networking:
❏Describes the tools, communities, and services that help a student direct their
learning and pursue educational goals
❏Allows students to work together at the same time and comment on work
❏Allows teachers to create assignments and see when students submit their
work and return grades to them on the same platform
❏Supports the modern flattening classrooms, unblocks the at home teacher-
student barrier, and has an easy grading system
❏Minimizes isolation in learning and create powerful learning conduits between
8. Government, Employment, and Politics
❏Government
❏ Search engines like Google
❏ Social Media
❏Employment
❏ Employers post to social media
❏ Employers send emails using the Internet
❏ Allow people to connect
❏Politics
9. Arts, Entertainment, and Literature
❏PLE’s help with creativity
❏Allows art to be shared globally through the Internet
❏Advertising is made easy
❏Forms of Literature can be shared to anyone all over the world
❏Social networking allows important people in charge of the form of
entertainment to communicate as well as collaborate with people all around the
world in order to make the entertainment the best it can be
10. Science, Environment, and Health
❏Searching has affected science in the way that we discover and learn about new
things
❏ Information is easier to access than going to the library and flipping through countless amounts
of books
❏Things are accomplished faster
❏Human and environment interaction has changed based on the new things that
we find
❏Finding answers about your health is easier using websites like:
❏ WebMD
11. Concluding Statement
In a team effort, we were able to complete all assignments and inform people on the
many areas above. With substantial information, we were able to show how
common search engines were able to change our daily lives and did with our new
technology of the internet, through email and discussion rather than face to face.
With everyone doing their part, we finished all tasks on time.
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