Voice Threads

Found this fun little tool and am expermenting with it. Voice Threads is a way to put media and voice together quickly and easily. Try it: www.voicethread.com

Invest in a Girl

Not only does this video have meaning it is a wonderful example of digital storytelling!

Check this out. From Ewan McIntosh in the UK.

The Girl Effect:

Delight in Education

Stephen Heppell wants to make education a little more "delightful" now I see this poster on Richard Millwood's blog. I think the British education system is onto something! I want to make education delightful, how about you??

The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

Daniel Pink has released a guide for career decisions in Manga format with an online comic component. I don't know about you, but the manga in my library is the best used section. I will be buying it as soon as I have next year's budget!

Here is the link to the online component that you can link to RSS.

Johnny Bunko Online

Great Media Studies Resource!

OK here is this band from Manchester UK. They needed to make a video but couldn't afford it so instead they perform in front of video surveillance cameras around the city and then petition the government to access the tapes which they then edit into a music video. Talk about creative rebellion! Work the system boys!! This was from David Warlick's Blog.

It's a good song...here is the video:

What is Text?

Here is my first foray into publishing myself! An assignment for my masters course.

Boing Boing Cory Doctorow Releases his new Book

Author Cory Doctorow has released his new book on the web. Yes you can download it legally right here. Click on the link to listen to his rationale...very interesting.

Fun Links for Digital Storytelling

This site is chock full of great resources for digital storytelling. CogDogRoo by Alan Levine... Link this to UStream and Bob's your uncle.

Powerpoint at its best!

An example of powerpoint with all the bells and whistles!

Virtual School Society Conference

OK David Warlick is live blogging a conference in BC and it's where I would love to be right now. He posted an really interesting discussion yesterday about implementing social networks and the features of them. The presenter talks about the features of social networks using an interesting diagram.

Social Networks are all about:

Identity,
Presence,
Relationships,
Conversations,
Groups,
Reputation The diagram shows how 3 different networks play on these relationships.

Imagine how powerful these tools could be for learning if school districts could get past the fear and unblock them. We need to educate the educators so that we can use such tools wisely in learning environments.

Smith, Gene. “Social Software Building Blocks.” [Weblog nForm] 4 Apr 2007. nForm User

Experience. 23 Apr 2008 http://nform.ca/publications/social-software-building-block.

URL for Brittania Registration

Register for Brittania for free....would help to have this link!

Brittania for Bloggers!

I have been reading Joyce's Valenza's latest posting and find this article indicating that Encyclopedia Brittanica will provide access to their product free of charge to Bloggers. Of course, I am skeptical as is Joyce and will register to find out how this works....in the meantime, if you are interested, check it out! Brittania for Bloggers.

ANIMOTO

OK here is such a cool little tool that students and teachers can access online with very little knowledge of IT Animoto is a web based video/slideshow creation tool that can be used for many purposes. Check it out, give it a shot and tell me what you think. This was posted on Ewan McGregor's Edublog and it is a wonderful thing. Thanks Mr. McGregor!

Google Mojo

OK folks....here is something to share at the next staff meeting....librarianship blues if I ever heard it!

Time Mag Top 25 Blogs

Here is Time Magazines link to top 25 blogs. Although I have heard of some of these blogs, I don't subscribe to them and at the moment I am resisting adding them to my rss. I am online far too much and need to limit my aggregator to specific focii, such as IT and libraries. lol Not too broad an area!

Blue Skunk & Copyright

I have gotten hooked on Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk blog. This week he has been discussing copyright and fair use of material. This is always a hot topic in librarianship but this one hit home because we were discussing our New Vision Document for school libraries at a recent meeting. In this document the vision refers TL's to character education connections when teaching copyright. Johnson makes the same reference saying that we need to teach copyright from the perspective of the producer and call on student empathy to understand the rationale behind copyright law. Don't you love it when everything seems connected??

Digital Archive Mashups

David Warlick posted this wonderful link to the national archive of the united states where they have digitized primary source documents for users to use for research and to create new views of this information. Items are tagged using blog like folksonomy and it has a Flikr like feel to it. Imagine how much fun this could be to have students select images from this resource, create movies, slide shows, posters....all built into this wonderful site! Canadian digital archives please take note!!! Check it out

Digital Storytelling

I was buys avoiding writing a paper so decided to cruise you tube for a while. Here is a neat video about Digital StorytellingI think students would love it and I do too.

Web Mashups and Virtual Tours

I just grabbed this from David Warlick's blog at a recent tech conference in the states. This teacher was presenting about web mashups, using second life as a portal, google maps and flickr. Her example was one of taking a civil rights tour. He posted instructions.... I think this sounds amazing and will be playing with this tonight!

Lizbeth went on a Civil Rights Tour through the south, and she created a Google Maps interface for recording the tour. Again, someone asks, “How can we do that?”
Here’s how you do it. 1. Start with Google and register an account if you don’t have one already.2. Click on [Maps].3. Click [My Maps] where you can save your own maps and also browse a directory of other maps.4. Click [Create a Map]5. Title it and make it public or unlisted (you can share it either way)6. Make a pen, and then zoom in to where you want it to stay, and title it.7. A text box opens where you can type in text, rich text, or even HTML. There’s a tool bar for formatting. This is cool!8. If you want a photo to be part of this spot on the map. The photo has to be on the web, and you create a link to the photo. Click the insert a a photo button, and enter the URL of the image.
Here is a bookmark page with resources: http://del.icio.us/ellejaycee/presentationAnd here is a Camtasia demo: http://scrap217.googlepages.com

Web 2.0 and 3.0 Semantics

Amanda inspired me to go back and review my notes from Superconference with her postings about the interactive web and the semantic web.

Here is a presentation shared by David Warlick related to Thomas Friedan's book The World is Flat...which is now on my growing pile of reading for, whenever!

Check this out!

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