If you use a Mac to browse the Internet, you should be using 1Password. This third-party utility lets you create, save and use secure passwords on every site you log in to. You can also store bank information, notes and files inside 1Password’s encrypted database. In addition, it will protect you from dangerous phishing attacks.
Learn more at http://www.saveourschoolsmarch.org/ The second in our series trumpeting the values teachers, students and parents want to see reflected in the nation’s education policy. We will elaborate much more during activities in Washington DC and around the country July 25-31, and especially July 30.
Here’s to the Teachers! SOS March and National Call to Action
Learn more at http://www.saveourschoolsmarch.org/
Join us July 28-31 2011 in Washington DC to support equitable funding for all public school communities, end high stakes testing used for the purpose of student, teacher, and school evaluation, give teacher, family and community leadership a clear place in forming public education policies, and encourage local school communities to develop curriculum specific to their needs.
It’s important to remember that when you’re typing to someone over the computer, there’s no way to know if they are actually who they say they are.
Watch this video and learn how to protect your students in chat rooms, IMs and E-mails.
http://www.youtube.com/simplek12team#p/u/3/45Lq5GU3u6E
A good indicator that someone is not who they say they are is if they are “too nice” and quickly try to gain the trust of whoever they are talking to.
There are a few “rules” you should share with your students about online communication. A few are:
- They should not tell anyone there exact location or where they plan to be later.
- They should not use screen names that are suggestive or give away their real name or age.
Watch this video to find out all of the “rules”.
by Kimberly of Simple K12 Team
P.S. Your student’s are always vulnerable online. Make
sure you’re doing everything you can to keep them safe.
This free online file converter lets you convert media easy and fast from one format to another. It supports a lot of different source formats. It is very simple to use and all the test I tried worked perfectly. I had been using Zamzar or the Firefox extension Video Download Helper. But seems much more efficient.
YouTube just launched a new copyright center and a new Copyright School video. It is intended to educate YouTube users what is and is not a copyright violation. According to the new policy announcement, if you have a video flagged for copyright violations you will be required to attend Copyright School before being able to upload content again. Copyright School is a video explaining copyright accompanied and includes series of questions you must answer.
Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers has issued a request. And Richard shares so much will teachers, how could we even think about not responding to his request.
“An Education Video Playlist – Suggestions Wanted
Did You Know, A Vision of Students Today, and Do Schools Kill Creativity are popular videos addressing topics related to education in today’s modern world. This morning I got the idea to start creating a YouTube playlist of some of these popular education videos. I kind of lost my momentum after seven videos so I’m looking for some help. You can see my playlist here. What do you suggest that I add to the list?”
Here is what Richard has so far, do you have suggestions add them to comments and I will pass them on to Richard.
Interested to see how the new iPad 2 stacked up against the station’s traditional news cameras, Mobile’s WKRG sent web reporter Lauren Styler out to shoot a news package with the popular tablet. Styler was joined by photographer Gary Arnold, who simultaneously shot the package using one of the station’s Panasonic P2 cameras. Read the Full Story, CLICK HERE
And here is another way to compare, side-by-side with YouTube Doubler. Very Slick, CLICK HERE TO VIEW
Yippy Skippy, or I am sure you are saying something appropriate, but YouTube just announced that now we can make videos and animations on the YouTube site using GoAnimate, Stupeflix, or Xtranormal.
Create Videos at YouTube/create. The key is ON THE YOUTUBE SITE.
Xtranormal Movie Maker
Xtranormal lets you to turn anything you type into a fully-animated CG movie. Set up your scene, type in your script, and animate it instantly. Easily share something funny…
YouTube/create
GoAnimate
GoAnimate is a fun app that lets you make animated videos, for free, in just 10 minutes, without having to draw. You can even create your own cast of characters.There are….
YouTube/create
Stupeflix Video Maker
Tell a story with your digital content. Mix pictures, videos, maps, text, music and watch Stupeflix produce a stunning video in a few seconds. It’s fast, easy, and free to …
YouTube/create
Font de Music lets you type in a message, choose music to go with it, adjust the font and color, and then it turns your letters into a bouncing, live performance. It also lets you write a message that goes along with it, in addition to giving you the url address of your creation. It can be posted on a student or teacher blog or website.
I made a little screen capture movie to show you how it works. The only thing could not find is how to embed the creation, although ti says you can do that……..
1. The founders of YouTube worked together at PayPal first.
2. YouTube began as a video dating site dubbed “Tune In Hook Up,”
3. The first video was upload April 23, 2005.
4. YouTube has 490 million unique users worldwide per month, who rack up an estimated 92 billion page views each month as of Feb. 2011.
5. We spend around 2.9 billion hours on YouTube in a month.
6. YouTube says that on average there are more than 400 tweets per minute containing a YouTube link.
7. On Facebook over 150 years worth of YouTube videos are watched every single day.
8. The most viewed video of all time is the classic “Charlie bit my finger,” with an astounding 282,151,886 (at the time of writing). When you include music videos from the U.S.-only VEVO site, then the crown goes to Justin Beiber, whose “Baby” video has over 466 million views and counting.
Information from Mashable.com
Free video library service from M86 Security helps teachers show YouTube clips and other video content, without fear of showing inappropriate material.
As most teachers know, there’s a lot of great educational content on YouTube—and there’s a lot of inappropriate material, too, from racy images to offensive comments that might sully an otherwise perfectly good video clip.
That’s why many schools block access to YouTube on their networks, which can be frustrating for teachers who want to use YouTube at school.
Read the full story, CLICK Here
Check it out: http://www.m86vusafe.com/
I think we have all discovered it is almost impossible to search efficiently. And there are no official guides on how to search YouTube to actually find something. And YouTube has become such a huge resource.
There are some really tricky and smart ways to search YouTube using Google search operators.
YouTube has sorting options that allow you to find videos by:
- Relevancy (based on your search query);
- Upload date (to find most recent videos);
- View count (to find the most viewed videos);
- Rating (to find the highest rated videos).
You can also use filter results by:
- Type of results, such as Videos, Channels, or Playlists
- Subject category
- Video length
- Video quality
- Features, such as Closed captions, Partner videos, or Rentals
However, as we have seen above, filtering and sorting seldom triggers relevant results.
- Use quotes to force the exact match
- Use plus (+) sign to force a word in the results
- Force any word to appear in the video title with help of INTITLE: operator
The National Archives’s YouTube channel offers twenty playlists of archival footage covering everything from the Great Depression to WWII to NASA’s space exploration to the Olympics and much more.
For Example: National Archives at Kansas City
The National Archives also has free apps. And the Today’s Document mobile app from the US National Archives is an interactive gallery of 365 documents and images from the National Archives. Today’s Document RSS feed includes the same stuff. With the mobile app you can select any day of the year to find out what significant things happened in US History on that 
day. You can also choose “random” to have a random document or image appear.
The mobile app provides the same background information that you can find online.
Thanks to Richard Bryne, Free Technology for Teachers for sharing these resources.
Back in 1964, Shel Silverstein wrote The Giving Tree, a widely loved children’s book written now translated into more than 30 languages. It’s a story about the human condition, about giving and receiving, using and getting used, neediness and greediness, although many finer points of the story are open to interpretation. Today, we’re rewinding the videotape to 1973, when Silverstein’s little book was turned into a 10 minute animated film (now added to our free movie collection).
I just learned from 9 to 5 Mac, a great website with Mac info and news that Skype just updated their Skype application for iOS to include video chat functionality. It works both over WiFi and 3G networks and two-way video calling is supported by the iPhone 4, iPod touch 4, and iPhone 3GS. The iPad and third generation iPod touch support one-way video calling. Just like on Apple’s FaceTime application Skype for iPhone will video conference in both portrait and landscape orientations.
Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.
Larry Ferlazzo has a great post about the 10 best videos for educators in 2010. hanks Larry for putting this list together.
