"Starting today, the Newseum is testing a watermarking system to prevent illegal downloads of the newspaper front pages.
Through a special agreement with more than 800 newspapers worldwide, the Newseum displays these front pages each day on its website. The front pages are in their original, unedited form, and some may contain material that is deemed objectionable to some visitors. Discretion is advised."
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Creating customized magzine on Themeefy is simple! All you have to do is :
Research web sites and add interesting links directly from the Web.
Pull in interesting social content from Twitter and Facebook.
Upload photos, jot down notes and add a personal touch to your magazine.
Customize the Theme magazine, publish it and share it with your peers and colleagues!
Isn't that a cool way to share your knowledge with your social networks?"
is from the same people who produced Phrasr. It lets you use flickr photos to make picture books which you can publish or share. A nice tool for literacy.
asks you to type a phrase and the site will pull in words from Flickr to match each word and then animates them in sequence. You can save them, and link to old ones via the archive. Here's an example.
draws from nearly a thousand photos on flickr tagged with "5cardflickr"You are dealt 5 random photos from Flickr and you choose one to add to your story. You then repeat this 4 more times until you have 5 photos that you can then use to tell a story.
Flickr is a fantastic site for sharing photographs with others, and as such it's also a brilliant resource for finding and using photographs to use in a lesson.
I am a Canadian teacher who has been working in El Salvador since 1994. I currently teach ICT as well as run the new Learning Resources Centre. Our staff and students have taken to web 2.0 in a big way and we hope to continue expanding our digital toolboxes.