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"This guide is intended to assist people who are interested in exploring interesting works which have entered the public domain. It covers: 1. Collecting leads 2. Online Collections 3. Legal Stuff i. Licensing ii. When Does a Work Pass Into The Public Domain? (Overview, 2012.02.15)

"In spite of the creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ license, which is the less restrictive of the options offered by Flickr, this picture, being a screenshot, is obviously in the public domain as copyright law only covers creative works. Transcript: [URL box: creators.ning.com/main/index/banned#] [several toolbars] Page content: YOU HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED FROM CREATORS Sorry, Claude Almansi, you can not access Creators as you have been suspended. If you think you've been suspended in error, you can contact the administrator. Click here to delete your content from Creators. Message to the Administrator: I would have been out in a few hours anyway. You can keep or delete my content yourself. I have archived what I need. I'll just take a screenshot of this page as a souvenir before I hit Send Message. Fare well, though I'm aware it won't be easy to, if you go on working for Ning. Claude Almansi [Send Message button]"

At the core of FreshBrain is an open and free web site freshbrain.org that provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. In addition, FreshBrain provides teens with tools and training in the latest technologies to complete these projects.

Ronnie Burt writes "to dispel a few myths and pull together a complete list of resources for teachers and students to use when blogging and working with content online" (2012.02.22).

"This comprehensive collaborative learning workshop guide, developed from the ELI 2009 Fall Focus Session, contains a resource list and five workshop modules intended to reduce some of the extensive work involved in assembling the components and curriculum for such a program. Each of the modules contains topical guidelines, content, resources, and best practices, and each can be easily customized to fit the needs of your institution, department, or unit."

The Emotional Intelligence Mind Map will help you to understand feelings and emotions. The Mind Map breaks down how emotions impact our daily life and work; including acknowledging and responding to our emotions and those of others, plus methods for confronting and processing emotions from awareness and discussion through to action. In addition the Mind Map highlights practices and techniques for taking charge of our emotions.

Minimum 5 sentences, non-fiction, photos-only, original work only . via Carla Raguseo

Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.

Video from the Swiss TV news where the IFPI.ch spokesperson announces that they will ask ISP's to cut the connection of people using P2P for copyrighted works

| The Teacher Chronicles "A well produced movie can sometimes be enough to shake my world completely. It can change my perspectives on things I thought I was certain about. Here's a list of 10 movies I think that every teacher, or every person working with people, should see (in no particular order)."

You can design attractive visuals by following simple guidelines. One of these simple guidelines is the Rule of Thirds - a composition technique borrowed from photography and other visual arts that works wonderfully in PowerPoint.

This is an interesting way to use photos and since PhotoStory and Windows 7 are iffy, we might be able to use this in the place of PhotoStory

a set of photos that describe you, what you know, what you love, where you work. You find pictures that describes those categories about yourself. You also enrich your youtego with micro blogging. You can also find other people that tags the same photos with you under the same categories. I really like the idea of creating tegosets!!

Example of what you'll get once you've chosen your license. What others will see and how you can show it (eg pasting a code).Both for online and offline work

An App that helps you to tag your video and audio work under cc licensing and to upload it for free to the Internet Archive

In the latest addition to the Technology in Modern Foreign Languages series, Alice Ayel shares how she uses the internet and the rich photographic resources it contains to bring authentic materials into her classroom and focus her students' work.

Skitch.com is a webservice that works hand in hand with our application Skitch to give you 1-click uploading of images for fast and fun image sharing.

NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.

Huge collection of flickr tools.

links list to scores of web sites which work with photos from Flickr.com to generate, search, etc.

Digital Nation is a multiplatform project that includes this interactive Web site and a one-hour FRONTLINE documentary to air Winter 2010. The project aims to capture life on the digital frontier and explore how the Web and digital media are changing the way we think, work, learn and interact.