Playing with Voice Thread

I have played with voicethread before but today am exploring it from a curricular context. At the Learning Connections champions conference today we are exploring audio file creation through podcasting and the use of the web based tool Voice Threads. The educational package looks interesting and if Bessie can be convinced to not block it, has excellent potential. How cool would this be if we borrowed the ideas from Wordia and created our own video dictionaries in VoiceThread? A safe educational environment using Web 2.0 technology? Go figure!!!

Here is my latest kick at the can.

Dangerously Irrelevant

Scott McLeod has identified a TL in Bombay as being awesome....she blogs and here are some of her cool links.
For Photo manipulation

PhotoFunia

Picnik

LII Canadian Resources:

Canadian History

400th Anniversary of Champlain's Arrival

History of the Internet

Here is a neat video about the History of the Internet...thanks to the Common Craft website


History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

Great Quote from Michael Wesch

Just for the record, I love this quote by Michael Wesch:

We use social media in the classroom not because our students use it, but because we are afraid that social media might be using them - that they are using social media blindly, without recognition of the new challenges and opportunities they might create.

Scooped from Will Richardson's Blog....but loving this quotation!

Wordia Online Visual Dictionary

Think of the fun your students can have creating definitions in this online enviroment! Wordia

Here is Quentin Blake's definition of Illustration

How great is this!!!

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