Assignment 5 Clarification

Is this assignment supposed to teach a skill specifically related to learning a technology? From the description, it appears that we are to use Camtasia to teach a concept not necessarily a computer related skill. Is this correct? Does this mean we could do a power point with narration as a lesson. In my field I was thinking of the teacher inservice I give regularly about hearing loss. Is this correct?

Digital Documentaries

I came across this site tonight while looking for some examples of permission slips (yes, I am getting a last minute start on this assignment). This site has some tutorials for MovieMaker and iMovie. I haven't taken a look at them yet, but thought they might be useful to teachers trying to use either of these programs with students in the classroom.

http://www.atschool.org/digidocs/resources.htm#top

Teacher Shooting!

http://www.wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=34546

This just happend this morning in portsmouth ohio.... a teacher's fear!!!

Interesting Article

As I was searching for information regarding copyright and student internet safety, I found the website for The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at the Stevens Institue of Technology in New Jersey. There are several extremely interesting articles post, but I really liked this one. It was written by a special education math and science teacher in cleveland. It's about using the internet "in unique and compelling ways" in the classroom. I found it very interesting what these kids who have IEP's and been dubbed "below average" can do when it comes to using technology to meet the state math and science standards. This classroom sounds like a really cool place to learn!

http://www.ciese.org/papers/AERAklamar.pdf

Copyright Question?

I'm getting started on my Camtasia Tutorial, but I'm a little fuzzy on the copyright policies for photos that you get from the 'net. For the video that I want to do - I won't be able to take all my own photos - so I'll need to download some. From what I understand, as long as I cite where I got the photos from I'm okay - is this right? If so, do I cite it in the credits? Thanks in advance for anyone who can help!

Broadcast Flags

The Educause article mentions that Congress will soon pass the use of "Broadcast Flags." Has anyone read anymore information on this issue?

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