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"As Educators we use Digital Storytelling in many ways, from introducing new material to helping students learn to conduct research, synthesize large amounts of content and gain expertise in the use of digital communication and authoring tools. It also can help students organize these ideas as they learn to create stories for an audience, and present their ideas and knowledge in an individual and meaningful way."

Brief summary of digital storytelling

Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

Study on plagiarism of undergraduate students of the "Digital Age".

"Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. "

MySpace co-President Jason Hirshhorn has stepped down and his partner and co-President Mike Jones will take the sole helm

"And, any use that is not a fair use, such as ripping the entire DVD, remains both a copyright infringement and a violation of the DMCA." Fair use and recommended amounts have not changed. The only thing that has is the ability to circumvent security protocols on a DVD.

Survey of 50+ different ways to tell a story using digital tools

"Libraries are simultaneously more relevant than ever and less able to define their role in the digital age, according to recent articles, reports and an upcoming conference. Here's a look at a number of summer stories that explore how public and private libraries are addressing technological shifts while meeting the needs of their communities. "

this is an abstract of a larger paper on literacy

"Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers"

 iJourney allows you to create a time-centered digital story like this great biography of Andy Warhol posted on the site.

Audible is a wonderful site for finding/downloading 1000's of digital audiobooks. This site is powered by Amazon and works on most mobile devices

Students demand lectures available digitally.

It seems that the lending in the academic library context is mixed, and Amazon's partner Overdrive is pushing for less restrictive regulations on how libraries can share digital content. Will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

VoiceThread With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

good ideas about building learning community, could do without the smoking analogy/story, however