Creative Commons and Digital Libraries

Today’s technology makes it easy to remix and share on a grand scale. With the availability of open source shareware remix software like Audacity, MovieMaker, imovie, photostory3, ANIMINTO, and GarageBand educators can engage in the act of remixing content. These new technology tools allows an individual to remix digital content and share with millions of [...]

Developing Interactive Whiteboard Lessons

In each of the tutorial sessions, explanations will be provided to expand ideas and strategies for integrating technology-based, multi-media resources into the classroom. The focus of these tutorials will allow teachers to see, use, and understand the educational benefits of integrating technology into the classroom.The net effect of integrating technology based interactive lessons demonstrated on [...]

Media in Education

The rise of teacher created media and Creative Commons alternatives to copyright laws provides an example of how mass collaborations are erasing the boundaries of textbook driven curriculums. In our current world all a teacher needs is a digital camera, open source software, and creative commons websites like Flicker to create digital media for classroom [...]

Creativity and Technology

In most of us there lies a realm of creativity especially within children. Products of creativity are within all of us and the expression of divergent thought can be framed in both its quality to originality and appropriateness. Each of us would like to take claim to the originality of a creative idea but here [...]