Making an online video is getting to be a pretty popular activity. Most budding digital film editors quickly realize what a huge part music plays in creating the atmosphere in a video. Unfortunately the use of copyrighted music in a home made video or school project might get you in a bit of legal trouble with the copyright owner. And by the way websites like YouTube.comhave developed some sophisticated ways to identify your illegal use of music. Instead, try using some of the music you can download for free from FreePD.com where you can find hundreds of musical arrangements that are available through a creative commons license.
As the Summer draws to a close students, teachers, parents and to a certain degree everyone else thinks about going back to school. If the TV ads haven’t reminded you maybe those school buses blocking your daily commute will.
Have you ever wanted to help a school or classroom in need? If you’re a teacher who needs help wouldn’t it be great if you could connect directly with the many concerned citizens who would like to help you? DonorsChoose.org gives you that opportunity.
Students respond with photos and thank you letters
It’s simple, it’s effective, and it’s an opportunity for everyone to make an important difference in the education of a child. Why not check you DonorsChoose.org today and consider what you could be doing to make a difference this school year.
“OnGuardOnline.gov provides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industry to help you be on guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer, and protect your personal information.”
The homepage features links to expert tips (Topics), online activities to test your “cyber smarts” (Games) and online videos about keeping safe online (Videos). Amazingly the site does incorporate materials that are relevant to all age groups and all levels of technology sophistication. Though it is a lot of information to review, anyone interested in protecting themselves online will be rewarded with valuable knowledge if they spend enough time on this site.
Schedule a refresher course on protecting yourself online, set aside 30 minutes or an hour to explore OnGuardOnline.gov today!
Why not teach the world? That’s what Salman Khan is doing.
“What started out as Sal making a few algebra videos for his cousins has grown to over 2,100 videos . . . covering everything from arithmatic to personal finance to history and physics” KahnAcademy.org delivers millions of simple 10 minute long lessons via the internet every day. Every video was created by Salman Kahn using Smoothdraw, Camstudio and Youtube. The lessons are simple and short and but very effective, based on the number of people viewing them online.
Below is a video about KahnAcademy.org from PBS News Hour in 2010.
To survive, corporations have to be future oriented. This is especially true of technology companies but companies that supply the resources for developing technologies have to be on top of new developments too.
Corning is a 160+ year old glass company and it might surprise you to find out that they have a YouTube Channel. And what do they display on their YouTube Channel? Their vision of the future of course which just happens to highlight how vitally important their forte with glass is going to be in the future.
Enjoy the video below and consider how much of these futuristic ideas might come true.
Did you every have a frustrating email conversation with someone where you keep emailing attachments back and forth while trying to collaborate on something? Did you wish you could both be typing and editing the same document at the same time while communicating about it? How about doing all this online, real-time collaboration for free?
In the meantime, an open source release of etherpad has allowed for the creation of many “clones” of the original which are still available online. One of the best of these is PiratePad.net which is hosted by The Pirate Party in Sweden. Here is a link to more information about other etherpad clones and a review of each one: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20004686-248.html
With over 4,000 audio books in it’s inventory, Librovox claims to be the largest online resource for free audio books. Librovox was started in 2005 by Hugh McGuire with the goal of using volunteer readers to create downloadable MP3 files of books.
More information from the website: “LibriVox audiobooks are free (*). You may use them for whatever purpose you like. Click here for information about our public domain license. Click here to hear some samples of LibriVox recordings.”
Hans Rosling is currently a proferssor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and he has been a speaker at TED multiple times. He is probably best know worldwide for Gapminder.org, a website where you can view and explore statistical data from all around the world in an easy to use graphic format. “Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view” is the Mission of Gapminder.
Why do you want to take a moment to explore Gapminder.org? Because regardless of what previous experience you might have had with statistics, this website is bound to change your opinions of the science of statistics as well as some of your own misconceptions about the world we live in. Take a look at this 4 minute video about the last 200 years of history to give you a taste of what statistics can tell us about our world.
You probably know Microsoft as the company that brought you Word, PowerPoint and Excel and a few other ubiquitous programs that everyone has to use sooner or later. But did you know they’re also up to all kinds of interesting web-based projects? Today’s internet moment, Photosynth, is a great example of just such a project. It enables you to stitch photos of particular location together to create a virtual tour of that location. Here’s a great 7 minute video from the March 2007 TED Conference featuring Blaise Aguera y Arcas.
Image editing can be difficult and really good software can be pretty expensive. Pixlr.com offers you a free online image editing program that has enough features to satisfy many of your needs. If you’re at all familiar with editors like Adobe PhotoShop you should have no problem with the basic editing options and buttons. If photo editing is new to you there is a great list of video tutorials available at http://ictpublish.com/pixlr/ which were created by Haldor Lønningdal of ICT Publish in Norway.Pixlr.com
Check out Pixlr.com sometime and try editing an image.
Making an online video is getting to be a pretty popular activity. Most budding digital film editors quickly realize what a huge part music plays in creating the atmosphere in a video. Unfortunately the use of copyrighted music in a home made video or school project might get you in a bit of legal trouble with the copyright owner. And by the way websites like YouTube.com have developed some sophisticated ways to identify your illegal use of music. Instead, try using some of the music you can download for free from FreePD.com where you can find hundreds of musical arrangements that are available through a creative commons license.
