Tag Archives: YouTube
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Royalty Free Music and EmbedPlus

Two quick great websites I came across today that deserve more than a tweet. 

Jewel Beat: Check it out…some great sounds, songs, and effects. All royalty free and all they ask is you link back to their website. Great resource for student videos, podcasts, and use in projects.

EmbedPlus

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One Bad Twitter 'Tweet' Can Cost you 30 Students

Well….maybe not yet, but in the coming year if you are a private or international school you better be monitoring and using these new social tools to engage new students and families.

A Bloomberg report came out earlier this week titled: One Bad Twitter ‘Tweet’ Can Cost 30 Customers, Survey

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A Portal to Media Literacy

Watched this video from Michael Wesch today….suggest you do the same.

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Social Networking Workshop for Parents

Last week the Ed Tech team here at my school held a 3 hour social networking workshop for parents. The workshop was requested by parents after we made a brief presentation to the school board back in November.

Before we began we took a quick poll of the 20 parents …

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Learning to Change a video

A great video worth watching and using with staff. Thanks to Mike Romard for the find.…

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If students had the choice…

It’s the day before Spring Break and so it’s relaxed here in the computer lab today. The student’s spent the first half of the period reading and commenting on student blogs from around the world. The second half I’ve allowed them ‘free time’ to explore and do a little research.…

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Firewall vs Adminwall

On my posting the other day about our school setting up a YouTube account Jeff Dungan left the following comment:

…any tips you can give me to take to my administration/board since they are not receptive to the idea of allowing this to be unblocked/used at our school? Anything that …

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Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us

mwesch of YouTube left a video response to my Web 2.0 video that I uploaded almost a year ago now. A great video worth your 4 minutes.

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How do you embed video on a drupal site?

Looking for a little help. We’re trying to embed YouTube videos on teentek.com. Anyone know how to do this?  Thought is was as easy as copy and pasting the code, but that doesn’t seem to be working. The best part is the students just keep saying:

“It works that …

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Student YouTube video raking in the views

When we talk about content on the web never dieing, here is a perfect example. One of my student’s videos on Firefox that was made back in September has become pretty popular of late. In the last two weeks we’ve seen the views go from 200 to 1,095. So far …