Bliphoto

Bliphoto looks like a fun tool for digital storytelling and from what I can read in the small print is open to fair use of content. Based in Edinborough, Scotland...it encourages us to post one interesting photo per day and will only accept photos on the day they were taken. Looks like fun.

The Reason for F2F?

I scooped this from my aggregator and quickly added Jeff Utecht to my De.lici.ous network. He asks some pretty powerful questions about why we need f2f learning and what changes we should maybe make to our teaching to engage students. Check it out...The Thinking Stick

Interesting Video about Fair Use

This video is just out from the states about fair use that pertains to American Copyright law. I would like to see how different this is in Canada. To download the full report visit the website for Centre for Social Media

Copyright video

Interesting little movie about copyright using copyrighted images????

Google Reader How To

Common Craft is a great way to learn about stuff. Here is a video they produced for Google explaining how Google works.

Copyright and Media

Will Richardson has an interesting comment about copyright and how Web 2.0 has changed how we must approach new media. Are our children criminals or are they only doing what they think is normal? Interesting ideas with references to Lawrence Lessig and Creative commons. Check it out. http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/our-kids-as-criminals/

Neat way to create Posters

Want to create READ posters using your own image???

Try this url and tell me how it works.

http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/08/07/star-in-your-own-read-mini-poster.html

Assessment is for Learning

Here is another treasure from Scotland....Assessment is for Learning. An online toolkit that is promoted in their school district. It looks pretty user friendly and chock a block with great ideas that promote learning through assessment and linking technology.

Graphic Novels & Literacy

I have been asked about using GN's in the classrooms again, so I have been reviewing my bookmarks in delicious to see what I have been tagging.

Here is an interesting site that I must have grabbed fro Ewan McGregors feed. It is beautifully laid out with great content supporting the use of GN's to support student literacy. Go figure! Books that are fun to read encourage you to read!!!

Literacy & Graphic Novels

Copyright Law and the Ethics of Sampling

Here is an interesting video clip about promoting an upcoming video release about Fair Use and Copyright law.

A New Role....

I have just completed my first week on the job as Curriculum Consultant and am exhausted as most educators are at the end of week one. But this is a different kind of exhaustion...working in this environment will certainly be mentally stimulating! My brain simply needs to take a rest tonight, but I can't wait to get back at it!

It is really exciting to be in education during this time of change. We are all trying to figure out what being literate will mean in the next 20 years. What fun! I only hope that we can make it "a bit more delightful" to quote Stephen Heppell.

Experimenting with Embedded Clips

According to my aggregator I can now embed clips into my blog. So here goes...some neat blogs that I have starred in my aggregator....

Numa Numa

As mentioned in Wesch's talk the original Numa Numa video.

An Anthropological Perspective of Youtube

Michael Wesch talks about Youtube. An anthropological perspective. Such an interesting prof...oh to be a student in his lectures!

Periodic Table of Videos

Here is an amazing resource for High School Science. The periodic table of videos. Simply click on the element and view a video about this element. Great for grade 9 science projects!

Take a look, it's created by the University of Nottingham. The Periodic Table of Videos

Amazing Teacher Resources

I am just posting the link to a great little web slide show of amazing teacher resources created by one of my classmates in ETEC540! Click here to view.

Photosynth

Wow this is an amazing tool that will change the meaning of the social web into more of a semantic web.

A neat TED Talk.

Toondoo

Here is another fun tool that would have so many applications in elementary school.

You can embed in a blog, share via de.lic.ious, or in the gallery.

Click and point and fun

One True Media

I have been playing with this tool for my course ETEC540. So have used Alice's violin camp and lessons to give it a shot. Very user friendly, intuitive and fun to use. Fast uploads too. I wonder if it is blocked by YRDSB filters?????

Have a look:

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Voice Thread

OK haven't been here for awhile but to view my voice thread...click here.

voicethread
http://voicethread.com/share/158765/