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 Vol 16|No 1|October|2006

The Image Blockade

By Jamie McKenzie

Is your school, state or province blocking access to all Google Images? How can we surrender such a fundamental right to a vocal minority - the New Puritans - who wish to control what we all get to see?




Managing the Poverty
of Abundance

By Jamie McKenzie

The Web offers so much information that students may find themselves starved and frustrated, lost and overwhelmed. The masses of documents and images confront them with what amounts to the poverty of abundance.

Feeling Lucky?
or Lazy?


By Jamie McKenzie

When students (and adults) allow Google to suggest the best site to learn about "The Truth," what are the implications?