What You Need to Know About Creative Commons and Copyright

I stumbled upon this when I was catching up on some blog reading.  This is from Rodd Lucier who is the author of the Teacher 2.0 podcast and an e-learning consultant at London District Catholic School Board.

Creative Commons: What every Educator needs to know

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Other Web2.0 Findings Today

Here are some other useful Web2.0 tools I stumbled upon today.

Jog The Web - "Create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites."

Purpose Games - "is host to educational quiz and trivia games created by its members."

Pupil Tube - Collection of how-to videos, tutorials, and explanations.

Embed Google Books

I am not sure how long this has been possible, but I just learned that this can be done. You can embed Google books into your blog or website.

All you have to do, is find a book on Google Books and click the link tab. Then, copy the embed code and paste it to your blog, wiki, or webpage.

So, I could post an assignment on my blog that tells students to read Act I Scene 1 of Macbeth and post the book like below.

Online Notice Board - Wall Wisher

Wallwisher is an online notice board where students can post text, images, videos, and music. This would be great for brainstorming activities.  Also, you can embed your wall on your blog, wiki, or website for easy sharing. 

Benefits:

• No user registration required to post
• You can choose to approve posts before they appear.
• Drag and drop to rearrange posts.
• Easy to remove posts
• FREE
• Wall are easily embeddable.

I embedded the demo wall below.  To embed your call, click on the "Do More" tab on the top right and choose "Embed".