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   <font color="green">Internet news and video are at the center of the 2008 Presidential race, giving voters--particularly young voters---lots of opportunities to see and hear and discuss the candidates.&nbsp; Here is an idea to consider:</font><br /><br />Imagine a college course, "The Internet and Presidential Politics".&nbsp; Imagine that you are the professor of this class.&nbsp; Imagine that you ask members of your class to participate in the following experiment:&nbsp; <br /><br />During the first week of class, each student personally invests two one-half-hour periods surfing the web. Students are asked to find material that might be of interest to the class as a whole, and might be relevant to the topic of the class. <br /><br />The students click a special bookmarklet to capture pages.&nbsp; A simple click saves each contribution into a collective list fed by the selections of a hundred students!&nbsp; These selections are exhibited, most-recent-at-top, in an infinite scrolling list on a public web site.&nbsp; <br /><br />After posting their contributions, students read through the listings and pick out three of most personal interest. In class and sections, students what moved them about their particular choices.<br /><br />This exercise is hosted at OPML Workstation.&nbsp; The professor creates a "target folio" and writes a first paragraph to introduce the topic.&nbsp; The professor sets the access control to allow visitors to comment/edit the page.&nbsp; This is done with one click in the Writer, as the page is created.&nbsp; The entire time required is minimal. <br /><br />Students are asked to visit the folio page.&nbsp; It is hosted at <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank" href="http://opmlworkstation.com/browse/">opmlworkstation.com/browse/theinternetandpresidentialpolitics</a><br /><br />At the top of the page, just under the title, there is a drag-and-drop "Bookit" tag. Students drag this into their browser toolbar and it becomes a "bookmarklet."&nbsp; As they subsequently surf the web, clicking the bookmarklet posts page references to the chosen folio.&nbsp; <br /><br />Note, the bookmarklet is simple but powerful. Highlighted selections of text on the page are captured and posted. Comments can be added.&nbsp; YouTube or Google Video is automatically grabbed and is displayed.<br /><br />Imagine the velocity of contributions that could be achieved with a dozen students, or a hundred!&nbsp; Lots of fun to see what is posted to the shared feed! <br /><br />Let us know when you try this!

2. YouTube - Barack Obama Respond to Bush's State of The Union

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3. YouTube - The Game Show 100 Part 1

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4. YouTube - Tomorrow Begins Today

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5. YouTube - Health Care Town Hall - Dubuque, IA

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6. YouTube - Hillary on Oil Profits

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7. YouTube - AIPAC Policy Conference 2006, Washington DC

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8. YouTube - The Game Show 100 Part 2

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9. YouTube - Gov Richardson Announces Presidential Exploratory Committee

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10. YouTube - What is Barack Obama trying to do?

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11. YouTube - HotlineTV - Sen. Harkin's Steak Fry

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12. YouTube - Hillary Cinton "Let The Conversation Begin!" Des Moines Iowa

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13. YouTube - Olbermann :: Hillary Clinton in Iowa

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14. YouTube - Brian Williams NBC News Report on New Hampshire Primary

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15. YouTube - Barack Obama on MNF

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