Storyboard

Here is the link to my storyboard in Google Docs https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=10xVxnLbsE5tzgloHL1gjetvMLxedPr7gUS14aE1LbgY&authkey=CPLp2O0C&hl=en#

Copyright Examples

In this video, the person sings their own song that parodies Taylor Swift's song. While she says it's a parody of Swift's song, I think she could do a better job of giving more copyright information, such as which album it's from and other info so the listener could buy the real song if they wanted to.



I think this clips does a pretty good job of following copyright guidelines. It only uses clips from the movie, Pride and Prejudice, which it gives credit to. It also gives credit to the artist of the song, as well as to the Shakespearan sonnet that he sings. Lastly, it's just barely three seconds over of being three minutes worth of video footage.

Class Website!

I am so excited about my class website! It took me forever to make because I didn't know how to do anything, so it's probably not that amazing to anyone else but to me it's awesome! I am really blown away by the tool, google sites. I had no idea that you could create a website with google, or that you could so much with it. I think I've been living under a rock. I've never had to use technology in such a practical way before, but thinking about it as a teacher has really helped me to see the possibilities I was blind to before. I had a lot of fun creating the different pages I have and uploading different gadgets, documents, and forms. I definitely plan to use this when I teach so I'll be adding much more to it as I go along. Yay for google sites!

TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

Thanks to my subscription to Free Technology for Teachers on my Google reader, I've discovered TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. TED is a database of sorts of Technology, Entertainment, and Design ideas (TED). There are all sorts of videos of speakers, music, lectures, and so much more--all for free that you can watch. There are also a variety of subjects, such as science, beauty, technology, business, etc. The fact that it's videos reminds me of YouTube, but TED's focus is to provide learning experiences for viewers, experiences of a richer nature I guess you could say. I am really excited about finding this website, because I can see it being a great tool for teaching. For example, I could have the class watch a video under the subject "Media with Meaning," which could lead to multiple discussions on interpreting media's audience, purpose, and more. Through TED, students can be exposed to more texts than the traditional texts such as novels. The world is full of texts through music, art, movies and TED provides some thought-provoking texts worth analyzing.