A good presentation about Creative Commons

This photoset on Flickr is a great way to introduce Creative Commons (“Some Rights Reserved”) to your students.   Flickr is a big supporting of Creative Commons licensing, which is why it is my favorite photo sharing site.

Podcasting Videos

The Laptop Initiative website has been updated with 18 videos that show you how to record and edit podcasts. The videos also show you to create a basic RSS feed. Once iTunes U is available at USF, our faculty will only have to worry about the media recording and editing process, since iTunes U will take care of the hosting and syndication. However, since we serve pre-service teachers who may want to do this at their own schools without iTunes U, I have included a brief walk through of an RSS feed.

Online Slideshows

Slide is a really nice way to create slideshows for web pages and blogs. There are many different slideshow types you can select from. Slide was created by the same person who started Paypal. Another nice feature of Slide is the ability to add annotations to the images. Annotations appear as a transparent bar at the bottom of the image. You upload your images using a Browse button, then drag and drop to arrange them, and select one of the slideshow types. Slide will then give you a piece of code you can copy and paste to insert into your blog.