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My sixth graders sign out a book the first week of library in September and we hand out cameras. Students take photos of classmates and then write a 50 word annotation for their book after they have finished reading. They upload their photo and writing to http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/ and they create a Get Caught Reading Trading card.
The American Association of Publishers publised one of my student trading cards in their Tenth Anniversary Newsletter.
http://www.getcaughtreading.org/newsletter/GCR_10th_anniv_newsletter.pdf

Fair Use

Hi. Here is breaking news that will be helpful for all of us.
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education was released on Tuesday, November 11, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Now, thanks to a coordinated effort by the media literacy community, supported by experts at American University and Temple University, teachers and students have a guide that simplifies the legalities of using copyrighted materials in an academic setting

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education, is available online at: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/fair_use_and_teaching/.
You can read more about this at Doug Johnson's blog:

http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2008/11/10/new-guidelines-for-fair-use.html


http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2008/11/12/teasers-from-best-practices-in-fair-use.html

Safari Montage Workshop IU22 Nov.12, 1008

Chicago public schools create training documents and publish them for staff development.
Video such as the Obama acceptance speech was posted for the Chicago district by the Nov.5 for all students and staff to view.
Students can sign on.
Uploading content is still a discussable issue.
Curriculum coordinators could have a meeting each week at Safari Live every week at a certain time.
Safari Live information at Pam Newman's site at the IU


Baltimore county public schools portal
There is a lot of training information at the Baltimore site.
Kids will be producers and users.

http://www.Bcps.org/offices/lis/ilc/ppt
http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/safari/index/html
http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/destinyportal/index.htm

Finished for now! Ready to continue to learn.

I took the survey and will be attending a Pennsylvania State wide 2.0 networked conference on Friday, September 19. I feel ready to enter into this world with other teachers from across the state. I did make presentation about web 2.o tools to teachers in my summer workshop. Much of this content I learned from this course. Get Your Brain In Gear - the future of education.
What I like best so far was what I learned from Bob Sprankle and his Bit by Bit podcast of how podcasting increases oral fluency and blogging will improve student writing. http://bobsprankle.com/bitbybit_wordpress/This makes so much sense to me.
So...do I risk putting my blog address in my of my e-mailsignature? .....for all to see?

Week Nine C E-Books

I though I knew about e-books until I completed this lesson. I enjoyed Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground. I really like the links at the Best Places to Get Free Books" site. I really enjoy audio books in my iPod to listen to on my drive to work. Last year we had Bruce Coville at our school and I downloaded many of his audio books and listened in the car and shared them by attaching my iPod to my boombox. I really like the Fullcast audio productions and have Playaways circulating at my school. I wasn't crazy about the robotic readings at Project Gutenberg.

Week Nine B - Podcasts

I really like podcasts. I subscribe to several and always enjoy listening in the car with my iPod. I have made podcasts using Audacity with kids and even have them in my iPod. I don't like the randomizing colors of Windows Media Player and think I will be more of a user of this technology when I use video podcasts or vodcasts. I want to have kids improve their oral fluency when they read into a microphone for a wider audience. I do like the music from royaltyfreemusic.com to put at the beginning of podcasts.
I have some podcasts that my students made at this site. http://www.crsd.org/5034298164240/blank/browse.asp?a=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&c=62680

Week Nine - Teacher Tube

Since our district blocks YouTube, I found Will Richardson at TeacherTube. I shared this with our district librarians at our meeting this past week.

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=425bb5e4dc62c66937ef