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=Business model=

Internet Companies provide a //service// rather than selling products or ready-made artifacts.  It will mean that students truly take the reins.
 * Participation (user-generated content, editing software, comments, reviews, blogs)
 *  **Collaboration** (wikis, collaborative blogs, Creative Commons copyrights, multiplayer games, IM-ing, Skype)
 * Distribution (digital hosting, sharing resources and expertise > YouTube)

Here's a wiki; we're using it already! Think about this for your class: discussions, histories, collaborative reports: the possibilities are endless! //New media coalesce into a collage//
 * //New media demand new literacies//. Because of inexpensive, easy-to-use, widely distributed new media tools, being literate now means being able to read and write a number of new media forms, including sound, graphics, and moving images in addition to text.
 * //New media are largely participatory, social media//. Digital literacy requires that students have command of the media collage within the context of a social Web, often referred to as Web 2.0. The social Web provides venues for individual and collaborative narrative construction and publication through blogs and such services as MySpace, Google Docs, and YouTube. As student participation goes public, the pressure to produce high-quality work increases.

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