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Common Craft: Wikis in Plain English
The people at Common Craft Video present this informative video about how to use a wiki as an efficient and effective way for multiple people to communicate on-line. (2 min, 57 sec)
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Common Craft: Email Access
Email has evolved over the years. It used to live on our computers, but it now lives on servers and this evolution has changed how we think about email. This video highlights what these changes mean for the average email user.
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Common Craft: Apps
Within the last few years, applications or "apps" have gone from being big software programs on computers to small and downloadable apps on mobile devices. This video explains what caused this evolution and how it is impacting our lives...
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Common Craft: Augmented Reality
This video is an introduction to augmented reality - a growing way to use camera phones to learn about the world around you. It introduces the technology and covers the basic applications.
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Common Craft: Big Data
Incredible amounts of data are produced every day, so much that we can't use it all. Big data is a term used to describe the tools and processes that seek to make this data useful and productive. This video uses the example of traffic...
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Common Craft: Bit Torrent
This video teaches the basics of how BitTorrent's technology works to make it easy and fast to download files from the Internet.
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Common Craft: Blogs
This video introduces the concept of a blog as a way for every person to have the power to share news and information.
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Common Craft: Cfl Light Bulbs
This video introduces the benefits and risks of using compact fluorescent light bulbs. The video focuses on saving money and reducing pollution by switching to bulbs that use less electricity.
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Common Craft: Cloud Computing
Using a simple story of a growing florist business, this video explains the basics of cloud computing: how it works and why it makes sense for businesses and individuals.
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Common Craft: Computer Hardware
This video introduces three parts of computer hardware: hard drive, RAM, processor. The video uses a house metaphor to illustrate the role of each part.
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Common Craft: Computer Networks
This video focuses on the basics of computer networks, and how data and information are shared.
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Common Craft: Computer Software
This video introduces the role of software in making computers useful. It focuses on different kinds of software and software's roles in computers and other tools we use every day.
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Common Craft: Computer Viruses and Threats
This video explains computer viruses by comparing them to human viruses and focuses on the role of prevention in being protected.
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Common Craft: Copyright and Creative Commons
This video helps to explain the basics of copyright law and creative commons licensing and the role each can play in helping creators protect and share their work.
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Common Craft: Credit Card Responsibility
This video tells the stories of Lucia and Marlon, who demonstrate valuable lessons in using credit cards. One learns to save money by paying off their balance every month while the other encounters the hard lessons of being delinquent on...
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Common Craft: Crowdsourcing
This video follows the story of a person who discovers how a "crowd" of strangers can help him accomplish a goal.
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Common Craft: Electing a Us President
This video discusses the basic ideas behind the U.S. electoral process. It follows the chronological steps from voting to election day, focusing on each state's role.
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Common Craft: Image Resolution and Pixels
This video follows the story of Neil, who learns why he can't enlarge and print a photo that was taken with his phone. Using an analogy of a blanket, the video illustrates what happens when a small image is enlarged and what's needed for...
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Common Craft: Investing Money
This video introduces the potential benefits of investing money in the context of taking risks. It describes multiple types of investing and what they all have in common.
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Common Craft: Online Citizenship
Sometimes communicating via computers can feel anonymous and make people lose touch with the impact of what they say online. This video highlights the problems this causes and explains a basic idea: that our words matter, online and off.
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Common Craft: Phishing Scams
This video is designed to increase awareness of phishing scams and help viewers recognize and avoid phishing emails when they see them.
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Common Craft: Plagiarism
While Plagiarism can be intentional, it is more often caused by misunderstanding. Avoiding it means understanding the role of intellectual property and what makes plagiarism wrong.
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Common Craft: Podcasting
This video introduces the differences between broadcasting shows and making shows available for download on the Internet so that they can be enjoyed at any time.
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Common Craft: Preparing an Emergency Kit
We live in an unpredictable world. Events may occur that require a family to need emergency supplies for up to 72 hours. This video explains what to include in an Emergency Kit.