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Joyce Valenza is encouraging bloggers to share their favorite posts. Check out the ones she has chosen at http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1240046124.html.

Music editing online

I'm not a musician, but Jam Studio looks like it has possibilities for creating soundtracks for multimedia projects. All you need to do is be able to pick chords that seem to go together and you're started on composing a piece. Give it a try.

Tips for Teachers

101 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teaching Students about Social Media is really for teachers who need to learn about it themselves. While it is geared to higher education, there are useful resources in Internet safety and managing one's online presence along with links on blogging and using Twitter.

Podcasting and cell phones

Check out this site for a method to create MPG3 files using a cell phone. This could be another method to create those files for podcasting.

http://drop.io/

NECC SIGMS Ning

I found using the NECC Ning a bit confusing, but there were a few useful things about the conference. You might want to look at the wiki they created. It has presentations from several leaders in the field. I thought David Loertscher's ideas on the school learning commons to spark some ideas.

http://neccsigms.pbworks.com/

Sixth Sense

You may have watched the movie by this name, but here's a new technology that changes how we might interact with technology. Think about what this could mean for how we interact with the world in the future. Think about where the information is coming from.

http://necc2008.ning.com/video/ted-technology-entertainment

Animoto and free / licensed media resources

After looking at Animoto as Nancy suggested, take a look at the Children's Crusade example (http://animoto.com/education/casestudies#civilrights). I think it is a good example of how we might teach media literacy by focusing on the power of carefully selected images and limited text.

Related to that, you might want to look at some free media resources. Sounds Aboundz is a great tool to purchase for royalty free music and GarageBand loops offer the ability to create original music, but there are other sources on the web you might want to check out.

Creative Commons Search (http://search.creativecommons.org) does the same type of searching as the search box in Firefox for CC. It searches multiple sites.

http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/tips/freemusic.htm provides links to music under Creative Commons licenses.

FreePlayMusic (http://www.freeplaymusic.com/) has free MP3 music downloads.

The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) has video and audio in the public domain or under different types of licenses.

BlipTV (http://blip.tv) has video, some with Creative Commons licenses (largely TV shows).

FindSounds (http://www.findsounds.com/) is a search engine for audio.

Stock.xchng (http://www.sxc.hu) has over 350.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers.

SoundSnap (http://www.soundsnap.com/education) has sound effects that can be downloaded for a monthly fee.


Are there any others that you use?