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Seven Ways to Draw the Internet (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:27 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - A UK-based digital agency Saint partnered with ArtWeLove, Deviant Art, the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, and the NYC Department of Education to bring a contest called "Can You Draw the Internet?" to Internet Week in New York. The instructions for the contest, intended to support arts education in New York City, were only to "capture the spirit of the Internet's billions of pages in a single image," and participants included students, creatives, and established artists. Here are the entires that struck us as the most creative so far:

How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable) Posted: 10 Jun 2011 06:47 PM PDT Mashable - Over the past decade or so, the Internet has become a huge source of information and education, especially for those who might be short on time, money or other resources. And it's not just crowdsourced data collections like Wikipedia or single-topic blogs that encourage individual learning; huge corporations and nonprofits are making online education and virtual classrooms a very formal affair these days.

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