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• 5 Things Every Presenter Should Know About People, Animatedhttp://t.co/QcNp46Ms
• 7 Lessons on the Creative Life from the U.S. Forest Service http://t.co/gc5FuSjcand more along that creative theme!
• 25 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom, By Degree Of Difficulty | Edudemichttp://t.co/FVDntdaS
• 1982…see Britanica’s intelligent encyclopedia http://t.co/j9VomI72
• Advertising Artwork by Dr. Seuss … creative career to practical applications!http://t.co/r1oPRznX
• Are College Professors and Librarians Digital Pirates? http://t.co/H8jlqlEF
• Art Profs, Librarians, Curators Get Their Fair Use Code http://t.co/PynYxArm
• A Brief History of the To-Do List and the Psychology of Its Success http://t.co/lp2Mvqp1
• Anxious? Depressed? Literate? Try Bibliotherapy http://t.co/7A8L7Inh
• Cellular Jerks: Where are your Mobile Manners? http://t.co/SBVS6LLc
• Create online interactive charts with simple data imports…http://infogr.am/EMBED!
• College Students Now Prefer Reading Digital Books to Printhttp://t.co/OMJmhKMg
• Digital History Games at the AHA http://t.co/ZBL428VP
• Easel.ly http://t.co/xRMjgn0F
• Evaluating Non-Fiction Resources: Criteria for Quality http://t.co/0zmOdqxl
• Fair Use: From Monster in the Shadows to Leveler of the Playing Fieldhttp://t.co/TlwxH6Pd
• Fair Use Question of the Month: Digitizing to Preserve At-Risk Itemshttp://t.co/78kOTAlH
• Fun Exploring the Periodic Table = The Periodic Table of Videoshttp://t.co/yj5wXmJX
• The Greatest Human and Digital Viruses of All Time http://t.co/tUb2Uwoa would make a cool connection in Biology classes.
• Had the pleasure of attending a workshop with @willrich45 last Friday. Ready to move on this…http://bit.ly/yN6DGS.
• How Teenagers Are Using Technology in Their Social Lives http://t.co/fwN6FinIInteresting, even if sponsorship potentially colors findings.
• How to Break Through Your Creative Block http://t.co/cKAQT5Y9
• How to Generate Good Ideas http://t.co/Y1rbazA7
• Interacting with the moon http://t.co/1uC8V18n …. Awesome!
• Map of Knowledge | Marian Bantjes http://t.co/Ztj0Kfqa
• Media Literacy Appealing! Checkout the Fotoshop for Adobe Informercialhttp://t.co/1FE4pfDl
• Morph landscape photos into fun tilt-shift views. Online tool…Tiltshift Maker is easy to use. http://t.co/gGmu4OLH
• Powerpoint (film short)…http://bit.ly/qrY5qa Maybe we SHOULD expand our toolboxes?

• Announcing http://t.co/8plJMgxdhttp://t.co/EW8HanMb#

• Migrating a webpage is so time consuming. Hard to find the time alongside instructional needs. #
• Must read research for the data heads… http://t.co/3eRP82C … while not surprising, enlightening! #

• MetaGame, and ideas for using in the classroom available at metaga.me #gls7 #
• Moving games forward WITH other digital media…? how do we merge these conversations… #gls7 #
• Get ready 2 …Prepare to parent, close early lit gaps, 4 healthy kids, girls in STEM careers, activate global prob solving #gls7 #
• Digital Teacher Corp…project to prepare teaches or the new learning community by mobilizing a corps of teacher leaders. #gls7 #
• Games that address national core standard on the horizon…. #gls7 #
• Great point…Need to norm children’s use of digital media around developmentally appropriate activities… #gls7 #
• Can’t reposition games for learning without looking at challenges to creating effective digital media…. #gls7 #
• Key point…school isn’t the only place kids learn! #gls7 … but sometimes where they stop learning  #
• Modern family economy = connect what is going on at home across the “moat” of school. #gls7 #
• stem video w kids talking about their game design would be a powerful prof dev tool in schools. I want to show it to my HS teachers! #gls7 #
• Filament’s You Make Me Sick http://t.co/w6yZ7ah #
• COONEY Center reports http://t.co/89OeR8c #gls7 #
• Coney reports here http://t.co/89OeR8c #gls7 #
• Coney center reports here http://t.co/89OeR8c #gls7 #
• Again…awesome lunch, and Keynote meaningful! Cooney Center Games and Learning Initiatives. #gls7 #
• Love the driving analogy…GREAT discussion. #gls7 #
• “collaborative literacy” as in “collaborative knowledge” as opposed to common knowledge. #
• adapt tools 4 assess 1 “art form” 2 another as literacy assessment model? yes! Cross pollinate 2 deal w RAPID emergence of new forms #gls7 #

Check out Eloquent Silence, posted last Saturday on Shaun Usher’s Lists of Note. This is a beautiful example of the complexity and art of word choice that more students need to have time learning and practicing. There was a time when, as library media specialists, we regularly taught the thesaurus, helping students to navigate through keywords and indices. Search engines have diminished shortened the navigational learning curve, and generally we’ve tucked little lessons on specific resource types into our archives, rarely pulling them out within the scope of teaching information research. I wonder, though, if we are missing an opportunity here.  Teaching students word choice is more than a writing skill.  Focusing in on synonyms and antonyms–those thesaurus skills–broaden’s their search scope.  Teaches them that in a largely unorganized and certainly uncataloged web of open information, different contributors will classifiy and refer to a topic in a myraid of ways.  Being able to identify related keywords may be all the difference there is between finding some information and finding the best information.

Below are a few online thesaurus worth our time considering…how can we incorporate these into our lessons?  Read more... (446 words, 2 images, estimated 1:47 minutes reading time)

• Have students cut-and-paste in text from a found resource into the VocabGrabber in order to expand their search to related subjects. Cut and paste text into this tool and it generates an analysis that includes a useful list of vocabulary along with how those words are used in context.  Select a word on the list and a snapshot of that word will pop up in the Visual Thesaurus, along with definitions and sample uses.
• Help students understand how choice of keyword can drive (and even bias) research by using WordNet, a scholarly
  “lexical database for the English language.” Word Net groups words into sets of synonyms  along with short, general definitions, enabling text analysis and artificial intelligence applications by professional researchers. However, the resulting dictionary and thesaurus are more intuitive for many users.  Two projects stemming from the research will be helpful to your students:

Students reading Slaughterhouse Five. Several need audio support. Online streaming files are an interesting option, assuming internet connectivity. This selection is from the Internet Archives Community Audio collection.  Listen here:

Downloaded Blogsy on my iPad in anticipation of summer weeks on the beach away from school and computers. The learning curve isn’t too steep.

Adding pictures and video is is a piece of cake using the built in browser and connections to Flickr and YouTube. I especially love the intuitive way it let’s you browse your own collections…both uploaded and “favorites.”. Aligning the image within text is a bit buggy. Seems to only allow for stacked images, though the settings imply otherwise. Updating posts is counterintuitive…and for now, I’m not seeing a way to sent trackbacks.

I’ve followed the School Library Journal’s column, Carrie on Copyright, for a long time, generally reading it as each issue comes out.  I had recently added it to my Google Reader feed, as I use this feed to gather information for “tweeting.”  I find it surprising that Carrie Russell, who writes this regular column, does not use Twitter (at least openly) to propogate her column to a wider audience.  It speaks to a general misunderstanding about what Twitter is best used for, in an educational sense.

As @LibraryRemix, on twitter, I use the service to push links to my own blog out to other library media and ed tech specilists, as well as share links to resources I’ve discovered online.  My early foray into the system, where I shared cryptic thoughts and opinions gained me few followers.  In was when I started to share USEFUL information, along with links to longer commentaries in my blog that I started to develop a professional network.  Twitter is at it’s best when used as a BRIDGE medium.

In the classroom, I think students gain significantly when they make a personal connection to experts/authors.  Too often students fail to see themselves as partners in the professional dialogue that surrounds them in their studies.  By connecting directly to the key players in that dialogue, students are encouraged to not only listen in, but to also participate in that dialogue.  Following an expert on twitter, exchanging emails with an author/artist, following a researcher’s blog…each has the potential to help the student become more participatory—practitioners, so to speak—in the learning process.  They become part of the professional network.   Read more... (506 words, estimated 2:01 minutes reading time)

Presented copyright training for teachers embarking on the development of online or blended classrooms at our school. Teachers have always been frustrated by the limits placed on education and the complexity of the Fair Use Doctrine. Try to inform them how these responsibilities will impact their ability to share information via our Moodle courseware system raises questions and escalates trepidation about the virtual classroom. Shared the following links…just to keep the noise going. As educators, we are ethically bound to adhere to the established law, but we also have a responsibility to enter into the dialogue as it impacts education and how we teach, today.

The Cognitive Science Explanation For Why Copyright Doesn’t Make Much Sense

CITATION: Tech Dirt (2011). The Cognitive Science Explanation For Why Copyright Doesn’t Make Much Sense. Available at: http://www.techdirt.com.

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education

ATTRIBUTED TO: The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education, Center for Social Media. Available at: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare

ATTRIBUTED TO: Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in OpenCourseWare 2009 by A Committee of Practitioners of OpenCourseWare in the United States. Available at: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org.

A Fair y Use Tale

CITATION: Faden, E. A Fair y Tale. Media Education Foundation. Licensed under the Creative Commons and available at: http://www.youtube.com.

Repackaging for the 21 st Century: Teaching Copyright and Computer Ethics in Teacher Education Courses

CITATION: Swain, C., & Gilmore, E. (2001). Repackaging for the 21st century: Teaching copyright and computer ethics in teacher education courses. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education [Online serial] , 1 (4) . Available: http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss4/currentpractice/article1.htm

Invention of Movable Type, 1436

Reproduction of previously scarce books initiates concern about the property writes of authors and publishers.

Statute of Anne, 1710

England enacts first copyright law.

U.S. Copyright Act of 1790

Grants 14 year copyrights, with 14 year renewals.  First copyright entered for The Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry.

Amendment to Copyright Act, 1802

Prints added to protected works.

General Revision, U.S Copyright Act, 1831

Extended copyrights to 28 years, with 14 year renewals, include music.

Fair Use Doctrine , 1841

Concept of “fair use” first applied to the Copyright Act allowing some copying for educational and critical purposes (news, analysis, research).

Amendment to Copyright Act, 1856

Dramatic compositions added to protected works.

Amendment to Copyright Act, 1865

Photographs and photographic negatives added to protected works.

General Revision, U.S. Copyright Act, 1870

Works of art added to protected works. Right to create certain derivative works reserved for author, including translations and dramatizations.

Establishment of foreign copyright relations, 1891

Amendment to Copyright Act, 1897

Music protected against unauthorized public performance.

General Revision, U.S Copyright Act of 1909

Extends renewals to 28 years.  Recognizes copyrights to new mediums and certain unpublished works.

Amendment to Copyright Act, 1912

Motion pictures, previously registered as photographs, added to classes of protected works.

Title 17 of the U.S. Code, 1947

Codifies copyright law.

Amendment to Copyright Act, 1953

Recording and performing rights extended to nondramatic literary works.

Universal Copyright Convention (Geneva), 1955

Amendment to Copyright Act, 1972

Limited copyright protection extended to sound recordings first published on or after this date.

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