The Internet in Numbers for 2009
Image from http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/
Click on the image above to see some interesting internet facts from 2009 including:
- 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
- 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
- 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
- 47 million – Added websites in 2009
- 81.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
- 252,908,000 – Internet users in North America.
- 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
- 18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
FCC survey shows need to teach internet basics
46 percent of Americans without broadband access think the web is too dangerous for children.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/02/23/fcc-survey-shows-need-to-teach-internet-basics/
What do you think? Comment below.
Winter Olympics 2010
Click here for a free iTunes movie called Truth in Motion documenting the U.S. Ski Team. This requires iTunes to be installed on your computer.
Click here for the Google Searches-Winter Olympics.
Explore the Olympics with Google.
iPod Touches at MHS
Students also filled out a google doc form about their feelings on using iPods in the Classroom. You can view student responses here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t3ZMdonDsaBrxsLPzCWrroA&output=html
See the form here: bit.ly/cF7SKj
