Using Google Plus

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Skills: Google Plus navigation
Concepts: rapid evolution of a network-based application,

Prerequisite topic module
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Tweeting an image

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Prerequisite topic module
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Skills: posting images on Twitter using Twitpix.com
Concepts: application ecosystem, application program interface (API)

Using the Google Docs word processor

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A related topic module
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Skills: familiarity with Google Docs, creating and sharing text document on the Internet
Concepts: stand-alone applications versus networked applications, automatic downloading of programs from Web sites

What is a Web log (blog)?

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Skills: reading and searching a blog
Concepts: blog, subscription, one-to-many communication, permalink, label (tag), captcha, long-tail distribution

Using Twitter

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Skills: familiarity with the Twitter user interface and major features, the #hashtag, @-sign and search
Concepts: evolution of Twitter applications and access modes, citizen journalism, trending topics and finding people as well as information

Creating a Twitter account

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Skills: create a Twitter account, subscribe to follow the class Twitter feed, post tweets
Concepts: subscription

URL: Uniform Resource Locator

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Skills: compose URLs
Concepts: parts of a URL, shortened URL, domain name, directory, file name, path, communication protocol