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Great flickr images about our online world, media, life

Oct 15th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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About a year ago Helene Blowers tipped her readers to a great set of flickr images – Lynetter’s Interesting Snippets. Lynetter takes quotes about the online world, media and communications and finds great images to illustrate them. (Creative Commons licensed of course.) I love these images and quotes and have used quite a few of these in presentations.

And I was excited to discover another terrific set of images recently – Digital Bites by Will Lion.  I hope both Lynetter and Will Lion continue to add to these wonderful sets. Thank you both!

Whether you’re doing presentations or not, these slides make for interesting and thought provoking viewing.

Digital Drugs? Is it April Fool’s Day?

Aug 18th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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When I saw this column in the paper today Digital Drugs: A new worry for parents, I immediately wondered if I’d been whisked around the calendar to April Fool’s Day. But, no, it’s not April and a quick search showed that this has been carried by many of the major news sources over the past few weeks.

These ‘drugs’ are sound files that are supposed to create some sort of brain reaction. I listened to a few and only found them annoying. But the article wildly (in my opinion!) concludes:

At the very least, digital drugs promote drug use. Some sites say binaural beats can be used with illegal drugs.

That’s quite a claim!

As Linda Braun points out in her YALSA blog post Time for More Hype, if it’s in the media, you’ll probably be getting questions about it from parents, colleagues, etc. Do read Linda’s post on YALSA and the other material she’s linked to and be ready for this latest techno-drama.

Linda’s Animoto video of Tech Camps

Nov 12th, 2007
by pollyalida.
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Hey tech campers! Linda did a terrific video with photos from all the tech camp sessions. She used Animoto to create it.

Give it a whirl with your own photos. This would be a fun way for students to create short videos of their art work, a portfolio of projects, videos of events. A good visual storytelling tool.

What else can you think of to use it for in your schools?

Check out more digital storytelling tools on lib20.pbwiki.com

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