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"I hope I have clarified a little on the complexities of embedding YouTube videos onto your website. But so long as you take reasonable precautions to avoid infringing on the copyrights of others, the worst that can happen is probably receiving a letter or email telling you that you do not have the license to display the YouTube video on your site and to remove it immediately."

Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install!

In this video, we wanted to try to get into the heads of some of our favorite curators to understand what makes them tick.

Video Tutorials Setting up a Wordpress Blog Writing a Blog Entry Setting up a Twitter Account Joining a Ning Social Network A Brief Tour of Second Life Mining the Blogosphere Mining the Twitterverse Mining Social Bookmarks Setting up an RSS Reader Adding RSS Feeds to your Reader Creating a Word Cloud Using Trend Plotting Visualizations Demonstration of Digg Visualizers

Using Voicethread for Digital Conversations   Beginning with email and instant messages and stretching to texting and synchronous video web conferencing, digital dialogue has gradually become a common element of everyday life for today's students-another opportunity to "gather." The kinds of personal relationships shaped on the playground in an earlier era are now developed in MySpace and Facebook.  While the format may be different, the purpose remains the same:  Our students are crafting identities and are driven to connect.

In NYC a school has funding to do a short vid on each of the 342 parts of the IB Chem sylabus - they have done about 140 so far - but these are IB specific (and some have zombies too...)