The Media Education Lab at Temple University continues to create and publish a variety of outstanding materials for educators and students relating to intellectual property issues, copyright, and fair use. A discussion about copyright and their September 2007 publication “The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy” (PDF) will be facilitated by Kristin Hokanson at
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My experiences today teaching the stopmotion filmmaking class for the Fine Arts Academy at our church in Edmond, Oklahoma, were very positive. (For the record, I AM taking vacation this week from work to do this.) Here are a few of my “lessons learned” so far. Simple is better. It was interesting to see groups
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We didn’t plan this in advance, but each of our children ended up publishing (with help) a media file tonight after dinner. Our eight year old attended a theater camp for the past two weeks in Texas which culminated in two performances of “Schoolhouse Rocks Jr.” and recorded a VoiceThread about her experiences. She also
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Dryden Art – website of Mrs. Fuglestad, art teacher in Illinois (tags: art TeacherWebsites teachers)
I’m experimenting with creating a .Mac group to send out family photo and movie updates (I haven’t been pleased with the response to the Google Group I setup, unfortunately) and learned something GREAT I thought I’d pass along. As I wrote in my June 11th post, “iPhone, MobileMe, Eudora users and Assisted GPS,” I’ve been
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MonkeyJam – Brickfilms MonkeyJam is a powerful, albeit complex, stop-motion animation program. It was designed originally for cartoons, but the programmer also included some useful features for stop-motion animation. Allows for multiple layers with blending functions, and has b (tags: stopmotion software animation fun) – MonkeyJam – Download Official website for MonkeyJam, an animation program
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Thanks to Tracy Murdach and her PBwiki site of K-8 Tech resources, I found Interwrite’s cute video on TeacherTube, “All I Want is Technology.” This video was created by Trish Fugelstad, an art teacher in Illinois. (Thanks to Karin Beil for sharing Trish’s name and website!) The message of this video may be the quintessential
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I have created a 1 page PDF file titled, “Guidelines for Non-commercial Recording and Podcasting at Educational Conferences,” in response to ongoing discussions about session recording and podcasting at NECC 2008. At the bottom of the document, I included the following disclaimer: * NOTE: These guidelines are provided for informational purposes only and should not
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Great news! Thanks to comments from Mike Muir and Tammy Worcester on my blog this morning and yesterday, I was alerted to ISTE’s announcement emailed to NECC 2008 presenters at 23:15 GMT on 21 June 2008 (yesterday evening here in US Central time): Dear NECC Presenter: ISTE recently disseminated a code of conduct regarding video
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TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world Amazing web-based Twitter application, showing geo-located tweets all over the planet. Available as a screensaver for WinXP and a Mac version is coming. (tags: twitter visualization mashup twittearth earth geography geographic) CAI or ILS systems available and in use by schools now A good list of computer
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Although ISTE has published a controversial “Video/Audio Recording Code Of Conduct” for the NECC 2008 conference in San Antonio, they also have announced facilities will be provided for podcasters at the conference. According to the “NECC Presenter: Final Preconference Email” message this evening: NEW! PODCASTING SUITE Room 215 at the convention center will be set
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Ever since I first saw the Clay Animation Kit from Tech4Learning at the TCEA conference in the late 1990s, I have yearned for an opportunity to play with its contents and have fun making my own claymation videos! Members of our immediate family are BIG TIME fans of claymation movies like those of Wallace and
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This is the first time I have ever seen a statement and legal requirement of this type for an educational conference, and I suspect it will not be the last. According to the current (19 June 2008) NECC 2008 Attendees Registration Overview and Confirmation page, NO ONE is permitted to make a full-length audio recording
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Mobile YouTube – Broadcast Yourself. YouTube optimized for mobile phones. (tags: youtube mobile cell CellPhone mobility mobilephone) Digital Grandparent resources from Dymystifying Digital Maryan Pelland is a digital grandparent and writes a variety of articles and blogs relating to digital media and communication tools for grandparents. This is her column for “Dymystifying Digital” (tags: grandparent
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I discovered TweetStats this evening thanks to Bob Sprankle, and the visual reporting the site provides on a person’s Twitter habits is thought provoking. These graphs seem to invite analysis! I started using Twitter at NECC 2007 in Atlanta. After a year of tweets, it’s safe to say using Twitter has become part of my
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In her June 21, 2007, article “Education: Connecting the Lonely Profession” for WorldChanging, Suzie Boss discussed how many teachers seem to be stuck in professional learning and interaction behaviors which resemble “parallel play” for young children. She wrote: Roland Barth, founding director of the Principals’ Center at Harvard University suggested in Educational Leadership last year
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Summer 2008 television advertisement for the Oklahoma Heritage Association Our family makes several cameos in this new 30 second advertisement running on Oklahoma public television. (We happened to be visiting the OHA the day they were shooting this video and agreed to be included.) (tags: oklahoma history oha marketing video webvideo) 10 Video Tutorials for
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This podcast is a recording of a presentation by John Jones on June 12, 2008, titled Drupal for Education. John presented this session at the Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning conference in Wichita, Kansas, hosted by the Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas (ESSDACK). The conference program description of
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The FireFox 3.0 web browser is available for FREE public download– get it today and help set a new world record for the most software downloads in a single day! With over 15,000 reported improvements and a new gecko rendering engine, FireFox 3 sounds and feels (so far) like a winner! FireFox 3 is not
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Constructionism – OLPC An articulation of constructionist educational pedagogy from OLPC (tags: constructionism pedagogy learning learningtheory collaboration) The Educational Technology Site: ICT in Education: –> The K12 Online 2008 Conference Terry Freedman’s review of the K12 Online Conference – 4 June 2008 (tags: k12online k12online07 k12online08 professionaldevelopment Conferences) blist | the world’s first online social
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