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November 2007

November 06, 2007

Voicethread

Is offering a Pro Account to educators for free.

Lots of Classroom examples here. http://voicethread.com/

Upload all types of files, videos, photos. Add audio comments to the presentation. Have visitors add comments to your presentation or keep it private. It's like a collaborative audio, video, visual scrapbook.

Have Fun!

Keywords: voicethread, web 2.0

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November 09, 2007

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New TED Talk - Larry Lessig

If you haven't heard of TED Talks, head over to http://www.ted.com/index.php/ There are some really excellent speakers that are worth your time.

The one below from Larry Lessig - Standford Professor.

Can't embedd these videos so I will have to link to them:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187

Another older one that you might enjoy is Sir Ken Robinson - http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/66

Keywords: creative commons, ted talks

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November 10, 2007

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Guess the Meaning ...

Keywords: games

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November 21, 2007

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Stager vs. Richardson

Great discussion between Gary Stager and Will Richardson from the NYSCATE 2007 conference. Streamed live on uStream and archived.

uStream here posted by Will on a wiki here.

Discussed by Will here and Gary here .

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November 28, 2007

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The Anatomy of “Contact” Spam

http://www.teachinghacks.com/2007/11/28/the-anatomy-of-contact-spam/

I recognize the irony of posting the content of this message that I received through my “Contact” page since I am giving it more eyeballs.

Posting information on a blog requires a few critical media literacy skills, especially on what you decide to post and why you post it. I’m not interested in being someones marketing tool.