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"We have devised an interactive curriculum aimed to support teachers of secondary students (approximately ages 13-17). The curriculum helps educate students on topics like: YouTube's policies How to report content on YouTube How to protect their privacy online How to be responsible YouTube community members How to be responsible digital citizens We hope that students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but in all online activity."

Thanks Peter. That's going to come in handy this year as WRDSB opens Youtube in limited access.

This is where teachers can apply for an all-access teacher account at Animoto. Must be renewed periodically.

It seems as though teens are becoming conditioned to be "on call" through texting with cell phones. Some youth say they feel social pressure to answer each other's text messages regardless of the time of day, and that's causing problems at home and at school. Teachers are concerned about the impact of interruptions on learning, and school administrators are responding with policies on cell phone-use in schools. But how can the education system guide teens through confronting compulsion if students are conditioned to be "on-call"? Can kids find the self-control to plan time with their cell phones efficiently?

Crowd sourced resources for teachers

crow-sourced resources for teachers

Crowd-sourcing resources for teachers

Numerous Photoshop video tutorials - excellent for class! 

The flipped classroom

Great videos for teachers and students on digital citizenship (cable in the classroom)

New website creation tool. I haven't checked it out yet as I use PBWorks and Weebly, but it does allow for blogging on the site.

Best Free Software for Web Designers & Developers http://t.co/6XL6ASpT

Thanks Peter!

"Google Drive now offers a collection of 5000 high quality free stock images for use with your Google docs, presentation slides and spreadsheets."

If you're a digital storyteller or podcaster, you know the value of having sound clips in the middle of your creation.

Here's the link again to the shared Google Doc of resources for any Comm Tech teachers to view and add to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRXzqrIEIyNDiOFxqklmNxESVg814-OqL9c85UVFoSI/edit

Our system of law doesn't acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren't so tidy. They're layered, they're interwoven, they're tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality... the system starts to fail.

As a photographer with a new DSLR, you might be trying your hand at video production. Most people completely overlook audio and they shouldn't. If a video sounds cheap then in most people's minds, it is cheap. If you don't have enough money to afford fancy lav mics, don't worry, you can record clean audio with a number of devices that you may already own.

"Exposure Photo & Video Imaging Expo"

Thousands of free textures. Requires registration (free). Daily download limit of 15 MB to reduce piracy of images. 

This is so awesome! Thanks Peter!

An excellent series of lessons giving an overview of web-based graphics. Also includes some links to tutorials for Inkscape.

A series of an lessons and assignments to teach students Inkscape.