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Social media copyright etiquette
Moms know copyright! At least these ones do, and here is a very thoughtful blog article about proper etiquette for sharing photos and media through social networking sites like Pinterest in a way that does not abuse copyright. Check it … Continue reading
Embedding the creative commons graphic
Part of the copyright assignment, remember is to embed a graphic into your website licensing your work under some kind of creative commons permission. I think the easiest way to do this is first to create the embed code for … Continue reading
Teaching with Twitter
Twitter is a tool that you could learn about as one of your personal technology projects if you wished. It’s a nice tool for more than following celebrities. What I like about it is that you can easily from any … Continue reading
Creating your own “Blackboard”
As I mentioned the first week of class, I use WordPress for this website, which is a free website and blog-creation tool. If you are interested in using WordPress for your own teaching, but want to have more features like … Continue reading
Free audiobooks
I told the face-to-face students about Librivox.org the other day, a site for free audiobooks of public domain works. You may also enjoy LearnOutLoud, which sometimes has free audiobooks too. They are now offering The Chronicles of Narnia! What role … Continue reading
Internet Safety
I have graded all of the Internet Safety assignments that I have received. If you have a grade of 0, it is because I didn’t know where your assignment was! Remember the online students post their assignments as links in … Continue reading
Digital Citizenship
This week we are learning about Internet Safety, and I liked this well-thought out piece about the nine elements of Digital Citizenship necessary for today’s society. If we had more time in our class, we would explore all nine! But … Continue reading
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Grading up to date!
Just a note that we have graded all of the Gospel Insights and class website assignments that we have received. You can check your grade at gradebook.byu.edu and if you don’t see a grade, then email us the link to … Continue reading
Another screencasting tool
I introduced the online students to screencast-o-matic, which isn’t perfect, but has some nice convenience features of being easily uploaded to Youtube and embedded in websites. I just learned about another screencasting tool that is pretty easy to use as … Continue reading
Best Educational Wikis of 2011
Right on cue, after we learned about wikis in the Internet Communications segment of class, comes this post highlighting the top educational wikis of 2011. Check them out (especially you history teachers!) Notice that this blog emphasizes wikis on wikispaces.com. … Continue reading
