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1voteJayant Agarwalla, a 21-year-old Indian college senior, and his brother, 26-year-old Rajat, didn’t realize how popular the free online version of Scrabble they developed would become when they created it in 2005. Now that their game Scrabulous has more than 950,000 registered users, and over 340,000 active users everyday, will the Agarwallas put it behind a pay wall? No way, they say.
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1voteSchool children have been using their mobile phones and iPods to make the news as part of a BBC project to engage students with journalism." Using mobile phones, and other technology, in the classroom makes students feel professional and encourages them to value their work." Students snapped photos using their mobile phones and combined them with radio reports, which they recorded using an iPod.
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1voteA recently redesigned Web site for the Saatchi Gallery in London — a kind of MySpace knockoff for artists — is causing something of a sensation. In May Mr. Saatchi, famed for spotting young unknowns and turning them into art-world superstars, created a section on his Web site, called Your Gallery, for artists of all ages to post their work at no charge.
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1voteUthTV.com is a teen-oriented art-sharing Web site aiming to bring student art to a wider audience. The project began after Rosendahl left PDI and came across some teen-made art. He says he'd been "incredibly impressed" -- he saw kids involved in many aspects of media production -- but it was evident to him that there was no clear market for the work, nor any readily available audience.
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1voteIt's part of a new project that has fifth-graders at Quarton Elementary School in Birmingham taking their lessons in such subjects as math, social studies, science and Spanish and creating podcasts about what they've learned. They're created for RadioQ, their own podcasting station. With podcasting, the students create digital audio files that can be listened to, anytime and anywhere.
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1voteA valuable resource for educators is www.UthTV.com (pronounced “Youth TV”). Uth TV is an online community of youth (14-24) sharing original video, audio, image, and word creations. Members create profiles, upload their original art/media, receive feedback/ratings from community members, and gain high-profile exposure for their creations.
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